Age in relation to ketosis

#21

Sounds like you have an awesome doc. I’m rather scared of my check up next month.

#22

He even asked me if I used Kerrygold butter. I almost fell off the chair.

(karen) #23

What IS it about Kerrygold? my lord, it’s the best stuff in the universe, a thousand times better than regular “organic” butter or even the expensive “pastured butter” I can get. I have three packs of it in my fridge and I smile every time I see them in there.

(Doug) #24

Good question. :slightly_smiling_face: Hey, I like most all butter - will gladly slice off a bit and eat it, but Kerrygold is more compelling, some ‘purity’ or absence of negative taste factors?

(Empress of the Unexpected) #25

I have a friend who is a functional medicine doctor and she gave me Kerrygold for my birthday! I’ve never looked back :rofl:

(Chris W) #26

This is one I don’t understand, I cannot taste any great difference(not saying its not bad just not worth all the to do). At the amount I use butter I would use most of my budget of food on it in a week since it is almost 4 times as expensive. I would prefer to spend that on some nice cheese instead but that’s me.

(Bella) #27

I admit I jumped on the Kerrygold love club because of the grass-fed sell and I love butter anyway.
BUT, lets be real, I have not checked, has anybody?
Is it a gimmick?
are not all cows eating grass?
How long are the cows eating grass, and what else do they eat?
:tired_face:

(Karen) #28

Lots like it. I like uncurtured butter. It melts and has a fresh taste. I’m in the minority though.

K

#29

No, many dairy cows don’t eat grass, not ranging and eating green grass anyway. They eat a blended formulation of various things (for some reason beet pulp comes to mind), I wish I still had my vet school notes on dairy cow nutrition so I could show you. But being a dog/cat vet, I recycled all those notes the minute I graduated. :blush:

(Diane) #30

My sister was married to a dairy farmer for 10 yrs. I know they grew an awful lot of alfalfa hay! This was in Utah, so I would guess that pasture grass is not available for at least 4 months out of the year.

(Edith) #31

I have to admit, we did a blind taste test at our house comparing Kerry Gold to another brand. My daughter could tell which one was the Kerry Gold and said it definitely tasted better. My husband could not tell the difference.

#32

Yeah, definitely pasturing would be tough in some areas, that makes sense.

And look what I found on my computer! Dairy cow nutrition notes! Here’s the most relevant part about what goes into feed. I’m not judging these farmers, by the way, it’s about production and supporting their families. Maybe we’ll all move to a better model eventually.

But as you see below, cows do get fed by-products from the processing of other cows for meat.

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(karen) #33

I have wondered about people’s “fat palates”, and whether it has to do with taste receptors, or maybe natural body temperature in the mouth. My mother thinks margarine and butter substitutes taste perfectly fine. I find them like greasy plastic in my mouth. Hubs likes Brummel, which is a spread made with yogurt and some other oils, to me it does melt in my mouth but has a fake taste. Kerrygold never has any aftertaste, while my Costco organic butter usually does, it’s just not as enticing. … I mean who knows, maybe it’s just the foil packaging that keeps KG from going rancid, but I absolutely can tell the difference.

(Chris W) #34

Taste of dairy is going to very region to region, I would say most dairy is grass feed in my area, I am in a cheese production area so there is lots of hay and silage happening when it can grow. The ideal farm may have some pasture, but the reality is that you grow the hay and cut it several times a year and store as much as you can for winter having the cows wandering through is not practical. Even on some of the really large farms the cows are allowed to free roam, if they are not they can become upset and that can ruin the butterfat etc if they become stressed.

Beef cattle in my understanding tends to be more corn feed than hay and silage.

I buy locally produced butter most of the time, and its fairly cheap here since we have an abundance of it. We have only been able to buy Kerry gold for a few months here as our AG dept would not allow it to be sold.