Food: Unsalted Butter [edit]

Other Names:Sweet Butter, 黄油 (Chinese), زبدة غير مملح (Arabic), Manteiga sem sal (Portuguese), Beurre non salé (French), De mantequ... All Translations
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Butter is a dairy product made by churning fresh or fermented cream or milk. It is generally used as a spread and a condiment, as well as in cooking applications such as baking, sauce making, and frying. Butter consists of butterfat, water and milk proteins. Most frequently made from cows' milk, butter can also be manufactured from the milk of other mammals, including sheep, goats, buffalo, and yaks. Salt, flavorings and preservatives are sometimes added to butter. Rendering butter produces clarified butter or ''ghee'', which is almost entirely butterfat. Butter is an emulsion which remains a solid when refrigerated, but softens to a spreadable consistency at room temperature, and melts to a thin liquid consistency at 32–35 °C (90–95 °F). The density of butter is 911 kg/m3 (1535.5 lb/yd3). It generally has a pale yellow color, but varies from deep yellow to nearly white. Its color is dependent on the animal's feed and is commonly manipulated with food colorings in the commercial manufacturing process, most commonly annatto or carotene.

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[edit] About Unsalted Butter

Unsalted butter is a dairy product made from churned or fermented cream or milk. It is sometimes labeled as "sweet butter" because of it has no salt to counteract the naturally sweet taste; however, because of the absence of salt, a natural preservative, unsalted butter is more perishable.