During the winter, when grasses stop growing, Irish cows are fed dried grass (known as silage). tbsp. It's got a really nice butter flavor, but I wanted it to be more forward than the salt. Just like Kerrygold, Organic Valley supplements with grains including corn and soy. To buy: $3.20 for 12 ounces. The eggs are sometimes so covered with the hen-house ‘environment’….that I have to wrinkle my nose….and rinse them off. I too will continue to eat the rich gold butter. Considering that living simply is also about living within our means, Kerrygold is the best option for right now. Daniel. Date checking and careful planning will ensure that you will eat from ONLY grass fed cows throughout the year. (I know the grass-fed is way healthier, but starving isn’t healthy, either! I’m still not completely comfortable with the issues around drinking another mammals milk, it’s strange we do it. Hi, the difference between “sweet” cream butter and cultured butter is that sweet butter is churned immediately, and in cultured butter, the cream is allowed to sit for a time, and live cultures (beneficial bacteria) are added into the cream before churning. The GMO Issue: The biggest alarm from the post is the issue of GMO’s. Words can’t describe how amazingly delicious that butter was. While the cows graze 312 days of the year, the other days when they are housed indoors (outside is too cold and wet and can harm the animal/illness, etc) and also mainly fed grasses. I drink skim milk and use real butter. I recently bought four blocks because they were on sale (I usually buy the silver, unsalted one) and am questioning the salt used. It comes from grass-fed cows in Ireland and has a luscious texture and rich salty-sweet flavor. This allows farmers to sell it legally, just under the idea people are not consuming it. Hungry cows need to eat! I know from several Irish friends that Kerrygold is not considered anything special in Ireland, just normal table butter, but for me, with a desire to eat butter from cows raised as close to natural God-given conditions as possible, this often is the best I can provide, and far superior to the other choices I have. 4.5 5 0 0 100% natural butter with no artificial colours or flavours. Thank you for sharing. Hello, where did you find the information that cows spend certain amount of days outside (314 days)? But eating a bit on the finger of the kirkland butter, great. Learn the good & bad for 250,000+ products. Maybe I’m missing it? Maybe give them a call and see if they have some answers? The writer also suggests several alternatives, such Organic Valley and Natural by Nature as well as a few other brands I haven’t found to be locally available. Butter is a commodity, and wholesale prices are set largely through trading at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. It’s like the 80/20 rule for cows, or 90/10 or 97/3! Here’s what I know: Cost is a factor and we look for the best possible price without sacrificing quality and our health goals. , rather than cultured or soured cream, and is the American standard as opposed to the European tradition. I’m interested in the post that talked about that lady from Dublin who knew the grass was planted and then sprayed. Do you have any thoughts on the matter? I definitely recommend knowing or visiting the farm where you get your raw milk products to see what their practices are also the cleanliness. The majority of cows are only fed this, with maybe a little bit of concentrates (which is like dried cornflakes, and some essential minerals, etc), but this is very expensive so farmers opt for the hay or silage when available! I live in rural Ireland and dont see cows in fields for months over winter. Best wishes :)). I have done this many times and often when cream is available I purchase it for this reason. Your email address will not be published. I like KG, but budget-wise we are buying the TJ’s brand instead with no regrets. There really is no comparison. Right now grass (hay) and barley are not on the top of the GMO’s being produced, so that is a relief. And house them some in winter, the grass would die and not come back in where does one purchase Kerrygold. Some have raised concern that even though Kerrygold’s butter may not contain GMO ingredients, the feed may. Not sure why Costco diesn’t carry the unsalted KG…? Pasteurization covers a multitude of sins so to speak. Golden Irish Spreadable Butter with Olive Oil & Sea Salt, 2 lbs Mediterranean olive oil Great for cooking & baking Item 1334497. With the most unique packaging, Kate's butter uses sea salt to make a delicious butter. I only have 4 chickens and find it hard, if not impossible, to source feed like this. This sentence sounds great but it has always bothered me, because “up to 312 days a year” could mean anywhere from ZERO to 312 days. I am also on a quest to change my entire diet to organic, it is SO important. https://www.truthinlabeling.org/hiddensources.html. Kerrygold Softer Irish Butter 250g (66)Leave a review. Onions and Garlic seem to be the worst offenders, though. I know….but that was in the 50’s & 60’s. Is the email listed here a good email to send those to? I would rather see “at least 200 days per year, depending on weather” — any statement where the bare minimum for it to be true is more than nothing. Also, has anyone noticed another imported Irish butter recently put on the shelf at Ingles called Truly Grass Fed? Not to buy. Continue to eat it. Decades ago I became very ill from easting cooked frog legs where the cooking was apparently not adequate enough to kill the naturally occurring salmonella or e-coli. Please link back so I can feature your great post! Butter taste-tests will always be subjective because the butter that was used in your family's home is always going to get a few extra points. Kerrygold doesn't add anything unnatural to its creamy butter. It’s not the same as buying directly from a local farmer, but it’s something. Unless we buy exclusively from local farms we visit regularly we never know 100% about the conditions and feed and such. Cheers anyone? That said, Kerrygold's Irish Butter and Finlandia were my favorite brands of butter I tested for this experiment. It has obviously become quite the darling…. I buy my Kerrygold from Costco as well, and will continue to do so. Hi, just wanted to know if Kerrygold unsalted butter use a fermented process for the “cultures” listed in the ingredients? Calling a farmer a “hillbilly” is pretty disrespectful. I have contacted Trader Joes, here is their response concernig their unsalted butter, “In response, the ‘natural flavor’ used for our Trader Joe’s Unsalted Butter is lactic acid, which is indeed produced by fermentation.” 23% Saturated Fat 4.5g Trans Fat 0g. As for raw milk products, I will not take the risk of consuming raw milk products nor raw seafood. And the dairies must meet those standards, so that ‘bad’ bacteria don’t contaminate the milk. Or has my husband just managed to scare the crap out of me? Some imported spices may be required to under go irradiation – that might be a reason for the wording in the Kerry response. I realize buying straight from a local farm is always best! Your email address will not be published. I can’t do everything that every article or blog suggests. I’ll stick with the Kerrygold as the best I can afford…and it tastes really good. I know you linked back to a bunch of other blogs, and am sure it was just an oversight. Didn’t hear back. Local is great, but the local raw dairy farms supplement lots more than Kerrygold does, and charge a lot more than Costco does. I have some intuitive discomfort here, knowing how quickly Kerrygold went from being a relatively unknown producer to now finding it in as huge a country as the USA, in every outlet from Walmart to Costco. This is the bougie cousin out of all the butters. Editors and tasters sampled nationally available spreads to determine which are worthy of your bread and a place on … Add to trolley. How can CO2 (significantly) impact climate when it constitutes only .005 of greenhouse gases? It takes a greater toll on the environment than a farm that practices regenerative practices (which actually gives back to the land and results in a negative carbon emission). There are aged cheddar cheeses older than that which are very good. I still love and purchase Kerrygold butter for my family. We buy Kerry gold from Costco, occasionally organic valley pasture on sale. I think with enough consumer pressure, this could happen. … Kerrygold Butter is no doubt better than the typical US Butter. The quality of the silage isn’t known until you open it up when it comes to winter and the cows need to eat it! 2-Mother’s milk, not just the milk of human mothers but of all mamals, has been contaminated for at least a century. That same percentage could apply to just about anything we eat. They probably can’t say because of weather–farming has a ton of variables. I make it a priority in our family’s food budget to purchase raw milk, raw cream, raw sour cream, and raw cottage cheese from this farm. However, Ireland has been producing dairy for centuries – even before they could spray heavily to prevent grass rot (or whatever) – so it really probably depends on how traditional they attempt to remain. Awesome post!! Get it now on Libro.fm using the button below. This is the ONLY way to consume them! Hey Lauraw, That’s because in Florida we have a law that says raw dairy products are to be sold only for “pet consumption.” Different states have different laws. This is no different in animals. Here’s a link to some information about re-seeding of unproductive fields and as you can see less than 2% of fields are re-seeded annually. 4%. Oddly enough I found this site via a woman in Dublin who does the Facebook page for the WAPF chapter there. A1 is a problematic lectin like protein that attaches to the insulin producing cells of the pancreas causing an immune response .You can look into this further in Dr. Gundry’s book (Plant Paradox). Taste-wise I’d say it’s on par. Off the topic, the same goes for wine. So it’s probably true that Ireland has less grass, and that if they are trying to raise the same kind of cattle we use here for dairy production it may not be the best. It seems counterproductive to create butter that cannot be used. Kerrygold butter is not subject to irradiation upon entering the U.S. Maybe you could try vegan butter. don’t you worry about the potential diseases carried in raw dairy? stuff. Apparently the really wet weather causes a lot of grasses to rot, mold, etc., and the cows and cattle cannot consume it. since, “No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention”. The company says it uses pasteurized cream from New England dairy farms to churn butter slowly in small batches. I started wondering about this, too. It only stands to reason that there has to be some grain in the feed–in places like Minnesota, there’s no grass all winter. The second source was my local raw dairy farm. That’s the beauty of choice :). This Dublin lady buys her organic butter from France and England! wink wink. Which makes me scared to try to make pickles this year using regular white vinegar. Great information, thanks for all the time consuming research. GMO is not something we want to compromise. Thank you for your research and report. I’m vegan, but after reading this article, I will begin introducing Kerrygold back into my diet. I went back and forth, but ultimately decided I thought this butter was a bit too much on the salty side for my taste. which help to DIGEST the milk. (We do not have a Cost-co here and this is a lot cheaper than Publix! hope this is helpful I need to find out what breed of cows the Irish milk is coming from.. Kristin isn’t a fan of Dr. Gundry’s work so she can’t speak to this. Without those enzymes, homogenized and pasteurized milk is ‘dead’….and it’s terrible for your gut and your health. Sometimes I also buy a 56fl oz of Coconut Oil and it costs $15…. It was to compete with the vegetable oil spreads which at the time had significant levels of trans fats. Thank you, thank you. 3-By buying products that come across the ocean via airplane or container ships contributes to the contamination of air and water and to global warming. For what it's worth, it was the only one wrapped in aluminum foil which, according to. Consider the Alternatives: I personally choose not to purchase butter (or meat) based on the organic label alone. I switched to real butter a long time ago. 4. Thank you. Please consult a doctor or specialist for specific concerns about any skincare issues, cleaning products, or dietary needs. I truthfully, don’t use much white vinegar so I’m not much of an expert on the vinegar matter. She claims the pastures are plowed and planted with rye grass for the cattle and that it is not organic and it is heavily sprayed with things to keep it healthy. I cannot think of any reason a manufacturer would add MSG to butter, salted or unsalted. Here’s an interesting Huff Post article about raw milk…. there is hay (dried grass) and haylage (like silage grass only less moisture). Thanks so much. I’ve learned this from working with the farmers in my area and can only imagine it’s the same for farmers in Ireland. I have yet to hear back from Kerrygold but will let you know if they do. much stronger taste than kirkland/any american butter. Thanks for doing this great research. While this was not a great butter, if it wasn't tasted alongside five other competitors, I probably wouldn't have noticed its faults. Thanks, Siobhan. Cultured butter on sourdough pancakes with maple syrup – sweet and tangy…. That said, I think everyone has to make their own choice and feel comfortable with that choice. It is almost 90% grass fed, and supplemented with feed that includes soy and corn. You might give that article a read…. The burning of fossil fuels like diesel gas, produces contaminants found in mothers’ milk. It really is difficult for any farmer to truly achieve 100% grass-fed. This European-style butter might be good for cooking, but it is absolutely perfect with a good crusty bread. Oh, John up there said Fry’s has it in Phx. Simply divine. I was glad to find some admission from Kerrygold about giving supplemental feed to their cows, albeit one that is less than forthcoming in my opinion. Or is that a disclaimer so if you use it and you get sick, you can’t sue them? I wanted to make sure the higher price of these butters really meant I was getting a better, grass-fed product, free of as many GMO’s as possible. Also, when used as an ingredient in a food, it must be declared by its name as an ingredient. I buy Kerrygold here though it’s hard to get the salted stuff as they prefer un-salted in Poland. The question I have is….there is usually a ‘good until’ date or ‘best by…’ date, but I’m not sure the label tells us anything about WHEN it was produced. We then either cut the grass, let it dry naturally, (and it becomes hay) or else cut it, let it wilt for a day or two to decrease the moisture content and then make silage, which is a preserved grass. New Zealand here where 100% of our cows are grass fed and the industry is just like that of Ireland. FOR 1.99 ,,,35 AVE. & PEORIA. I already buy low-price sardines, sometimes tuna, always avocados, sometimes other fruit, sometimes ground turkey, sometimes cookies, and most often tea, and almost always Honey… through I’m not sure how raw the honey is, but I feel it’s still better than the other pasteurized stuff from the store. Purists, gourmands, or ‘cheese sommeliers’ in Europe insist on raw! Your husband has unfortunately been brainwashed. In the winter, that means no bags of grain but plenty of dried grasses, which will contain seed heads/grain but plenty of the rest of the plant as well so it is in balance. Store-brand is not always a worse buy, but it was in this case. Salted: cream and salt. Hello, does anyone know the type of salt Kerrygold uses in their salted butter block? USDA website is very secretive about irradiation and the rules. It makes a pretty picture but it appears to have a dark side. But the UN-salted says it’s CULTURED pasteurized cream. KerryGold butter tastes like the warm, early morning sunshine. I noticed Organic Valley had gone up quite a bit too, tho. I stopped buying tropical fruits, that are non organic as they are required to be irradiated to cross the border. I would love to purchase 100% local, but for me that isn’t always possible due to various factors. yuck. I have bought their sour cream before and milk for making yogurt. I must say, I feel great, I covered it a bit in my recipe https://www.guideyourhealth.org/single-post/BulletproofCoffeeRecipe Do you drink bullet proof coffee? Well, Thanks again!*. For now, other than my local farm (which just stopped using a GMO feed for supplementation and the prices skyrocketed which I am okay with but not everyone can afford the huge price tag now) Kerrygold is my best option. You will not be subscribed to our newsletter list. , Thank you Wendy. The devil is in the details folks…. I’ve lived on a dairy farm and the grass is about as natural as you can get and in fact it’s our natural mixture of grass and clover that makes our milk more nutritious than almost any other. Feel free not to publish this comment. We live in a climate with winter. Other countries shipped hay in also and Katrina claims once again, NOT organic, so probably GMO and sprayed with pesticides. When I returned to the States we wrote a bit about things here and there and naturally butter came up, grassfed butter and Kerrygold in particular since I had been buying it here recommended by other WAPF people. Luxurious but convenient, Kerrygold Spreadable is made from a blend of Kerrygold Pure Irish butter and Canola oil. , which Kerrygold attributes to "the winds, rain, and warming influence of the Gulf Stream" on the grass that's eaten by the cows in Ireland. This information is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. I feel it’s important to continue to support a company that strives to feed their cows grass, a practice which is not widely practiced today. It is that dairy product which gives so many people health issues. We do get raw milk but the butter is $24/lb and I simply can’t do that. Nutritional Information. I could be wrong, of course, but from the ingredient list on those, there doesn’t seem to be an issue. No-name butter brands like Golden Hills have a total 10 per cent share and are expanding the total market for Irish butter, eating into Kerrygold’s share of the the German butter market. (@ 2/$7.00)). Account active The majority of the cow’s supplementary feed is from locally grown Irish crops, such as wheat and barley. When pasteurized milk sours, it’s a truly awful and putrid smell, which strikes me as what it may be like inside our gut digesting, due to the temperature in there. It has a balanced flavor that bested its greasy rivals. Cream does undergo changes throughout the lactation cycle so there may be a science as to when they make butter out of it vs. use it for other things. That said, I still stand behind the words shared in this post. When DH first requested that we buy Kerrygold, I didn’t really want to. They can almost tell which cow it was. Florida decided to mark raw dairy as for “pet consumption” or “not for human consumption”. The salt is not particularly sharp, but it's quite good. Am I missing something? The answer to your problem of attempting to avoid butter made during supplemented feeding is really quite simple. The examples could go on forever. Linda, that’s exactly what I was thinking, and wondering why no one in two lengthily commented blog posts about grass-fed butter, had mentioned it (until you)!! I wanted to make sure I had my facts straight before calling it quits with my Kerrygold obsession. Hi Kristin and thank you. And I need to know the cows I’m drinking milk from, are in pastures grazing on grass—right now the extremely rich spring grass which nutrifies dairy to its highest level. Amount Per Serving. We live in a little apartment on the lesser side of town, trim our budget in every imaginable way so that we can eat our priorities and homeschool. Linda I agree but was just pointing out that even by their metric the time on pasture has decreased. I don’t like it. I’m a Floridian, however, I know enough about winter to know when snow falls grass is going to be scarce which means cows aren’t going to be grazing on grass.

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