Anybody ever tried Butter Buds?
http://www.lakeland.co.uk/6744/Butter-Buds
Are they any good for cooking with?
http://www.lakeland.co.uk/6744/Butter-Buds
Are they any good for cooking with?
Butter Buds
- Thread starter Shewie
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Depends what you mean by 'cooking with'.
If you're thinking of putting them in mash or cabbage like you would add a knob of ordinary butter they are fine, but no good where you'd want the fat content of butter.
If you're thinking of putting them in mash or cabbage like you would add a knob of ordinary butter they are fine, but no good where you'd want the fat content of butter.
It's about half the calories of butter. Just thon's a tiny wee sachet of powdery stuff.....You'd almost be better taking along grated parmesan.
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Are you sure? I thought the label on the one I had (the large shaker/cannister) said 0 (no) calories.
From Shewie's link
Nutritional Information
Values per 100g
Energy 1557 kJ / 368kcal
Protein 1.8g
Carbohydrate 77.9g
Fat 6.5g (saturated 4g)
Dietary Fibres 2.3g
Total Sugars 3.4g
Sodium 3480mg
While butter is 707 calories in 3½ oz or 100g of salted or unsalted butter
Nutritional Information
Values per 100g
Energy 1557 kJ / 368kcal
Protein 1.8g
Carbohydrate 77.9g
Fat 6.5g (saturated 4g)
Dietary Fibres 2.3g
Total Sugars 3.4g
Sodium 3480mg
While butter is 707 calories in 3½ oz or 100g of salted or unsalted butter
Yeah i just looke at the link again. maybe I'm remembering mine wrong. Still a bit confused though. The info in the bottom is as you list (388 kilocalories) whereas in the main ad it list 10 calories.
So isn't a satchet supposed to be the same amount you'd substitute for a serving of butter. I know the weight of a satchet might not be the same as a serving of butter but that the flavor added should be.
Junk ? I thought it was just de-fatted butter ? in a handy portion sized sachet with no greasy mess when camping ?
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That's what the ad would lead you to believe. but the ingredient list tells otherwise.
Your camping, butter buds taste good on spuds, you ain't going to use it everyday, don't worry about it; I'm confident if people were dropping dead from using a few sachets it would make headline FCOL 
Agreed Rik, it's probably more or less harmless. Just seems a bit of a misleading advertisement.
I have had the misfortune of having real butter melt inside my rucksack on a hot summers day, so I can see the advantage of the butter buds, go nice with the cadburies smash I bet.
