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Half-fat butter

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What is the carb content (it should say on the packet)?
Most people with diabetes usually focus on carb content of foods. Normal butter does not contain any carbs.
In the past, I stopped buying the half-fat butter when I realised it had a high water content and made my toast soggy. That was over 10 years ago so they may have changed the recipe now.
 
I think the question should be, is half fat butter OK for anyone? If you look at the ingredients, the second largest is water (which you are paying a lot for, it’s not a cheap product!) and it therefore needs a whole raft of emulsifiers and preservatives to keep the whole thing together. I’d rather eat the real thing, and spread it half as thickly.
 
helli said:
What is the carb content (it should say on the packet)?
Most people with diabetes usually focus on carb content of foods. Normal butter does not contain any carbs.
In the past, I stopped buying the half-fat butter when I realised it had a high water content and made my toast soggy. That was over 10 years ago so they may have changed the recipe now.
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Thanks for your reply. I didn't realise that normal butter didn't contain any carbs!! I'll go back to buying normal butter.
 
Robin said:
I think the question should be, is half fat butter OK for anyone? If you look at the ingredients, the second largest is water (which you are paying a lot for, it’s not a cheap product!) and it therefore needs a whole raft of emulsifiers and preservatives to keep the whole thing together. I’d rather eat the real thing, and spread it half as thickly.
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Many thanks for your reply. I think I'll just go back to normal butter. Bad for cholesterol though?
 
Mostly cholesterol is made by our own body rather than injested but it’s not always the case .
I use butter but not thickly.
 
I eat lots of butter on my vegetables ,also cook my fish and omelettes in butter and my cholesterol levels are within the limits
Carol
 
chaoticcar said:
I eat lots of butter on my vegetables ,also cook my fish and omelettes in butter and my cholesterol levels are within the limits
Carol
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I also cook my veg and fish in real unadulterated butter as well as eating fatty meat and cooking other foods in the meat fat and rather too much very nice cheese gets consumed (cheese is my new chocolate!) and my cholesterol is down to 4.5 from 5.2 when I was first diagnosed. I now eat considerably more fat and particularly saturated fat than I did then. There doesn't seem to be any link between the fat I eat and my cholesterol. My gut feeling is that carb intake is a bigger factor in cholesterol levels but cholesterol is not bad in itself (it is an essential component of many of the body's functions and repair systems) and I am not particularly keen for my levels to drop any further. Consultant is happy so why shouldn't I be.
 
trophywench said:
Are you 100% sure it is solely the butter doing that? - and not whatever you are putting the butter onto?
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I agree it is an easy assumption to make that the fat is causing the cholesterol to rise but perhaps it is the carbohydrate/fat combination. I certainly think carbs have a part to play in the whole cholesterol issue.
 
rebrascora said:
I agree it is an easy assumption to make that the fat is causing the cholesterol to rise but perhaps it is the carbohydrate/fat combination. I certainly think carbs have a part to play in the whole cholesterol issue.
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Nope.
 
chaoticcar said:
My cholesterol levels came down when I upped my good fats and lowered my carbs
Carol
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That's what usually happens Carol. I have never ever heard anyone else (whether medical or lay) say a high fat diet causes BG to increase.
 
At my first review after diagnosis the nurse chirped 'oh the low fat has started to make a difference then' as she saw that my cholesterol level had gone down - she was so disappointed to learn that I had completely abandoned low fat eating.- I almost expected her to utter something like 'I feel a great disturbance in the Force' at the news.
 
travellor said:
Probably because it won't.
How could fat affect BG?
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True - I accidentally said BG instead of Chol - cos honestly most people posting on here and DSF have said in the past that reducing their carb intake also reduced their total chol. even though they weren't expect it to.
 
trophywench said:
True - I accidentally said BG instead of Chol - cos honestly most people posting on here and DSF have said in the past that reducing their carb intake also reduced their total chol. even though they weren't expect it to.
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So you are saying no one in any medical profession has ever said a high fat diet raises cholesterol?
Really?
No one?
Just me?
 
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