Re: Cause for yellow color of butter

[Guest guest]

Goat cream is white, as white as it can be. Cow cream is yellow in the Spring

and Fall (new grass). That's just the way it is.

Belinda

LaBelle Acres

www.labelleacres.com

[Guest guest]

> I recently spoke with a farmer from whom I buy goat's milk,

> and he said that butter is white by nature, and yellow

> color comes from dyes people add to it.

Hi Roman:

Since the farmer says that the color in butter comes from the dye

used to color it, why not ask him why they color it yellow? Pehaps

suggest to him a nice shade of pink may be more popular with ladies

while a nice light blue might be more popular with gentlemen. Red and

green stripes might be popular at Christmas and green on St.

's day. Tell him that perhaps this might be a way for butter

to get the jump on margerine again.

Chi

[Guest guest]

> > I recently spoke with a farmer from whom I buy goat's milk,

> > and he said that butter is white by nature, and yellow

> > color comes from dyes people add to it.

>

> Hi Roman:

> Since the farmer says that the color in butter comes from the dye

> used to color it, why not ask him why they color it yellow? Pehaps

> suggest to him a nice shade of pink may be more popular with ladies

> while a nice light blue might be more popular with gentlemen. Red

and

> green stripes might be popular at Christmas and green on St.

> 's day. Tell him that perhaps this might be a way for butter

> to get the jump on margerine again.

lol!

Don't forget orange and black for halloween! Red, white and blue for

July 4th. Puke green for the young kids. The marketing possibilities

are endless!

On a more serious note, its my understanding that cows are perhaps

the only ruminant that doesn't perfectly convert beta-carotene to

Vitamin A, hence the yellow tinge. But if sheep or goats do make the

conversion at 100%, shouldn't they have white butter? In which case

those farmers would die there butter just to meet our expectations?

[Guest guest]

That is right about goats milk. It is naturally white. Goat's milk, as I

understand it, already is converted to vitamin A, so it doesn't have the yellow

color. Cow's milk butter has the yellow color because it has beta carotene, the

processor to vitamin A.

\Shari

----- Original Message -----

From: Roman

Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 11:59 PM

Subject: Cause for yellow color of butter

I recently spoke with a farmer from whom I buy goat's milk, and he said

that butter is white by nature, and yellow color comes from dyes people

add to it. Can anyone point me to a reliable source of info that proves

otherwise? Could he be right, but if it's butter made from a goat's

milk? I have such butter, and it's quite white. Maybe only butter made

from cow's milk can be yellow?

Thanks

Roman

[Guest guest]

That should have been precursor to vitamin A.

----- Original Message -----

From: Roman

Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 11:59 PM

Subject: Cause for yellow color of butter

I recently spoke with a farmer from whom I buy goat's milk, and he said

that butter is white by nature, and yellow color comes from dyes people

add to it. Can anyone point me to a reliable source of info that proves

otherwise? Could he be right, but if it's butter made from a goat's

milk? I have such butter, and it's quite white. Maybe only butter made

from cow's milk can be yellow?

Thanks

Roman