Butter

[hrly169]

Is butter gluten free? I currently use horizon butter and just realized i'd never known if it was gluten free or not.

Thanks

[Lisa]

You need to read the ingredients. Generally butter is gluten free.

[GlutenGalAZ]

I get I Can't Believe Its Not Butter. If you look at their Frequently Asked Questions on their site I believe they still have a comment about their items and gluten free. A lot of websites now have notes/comments about their gluten free items.

Good Luck

[darlindeb25]

I Can't Believe It's Not Butter...is not butter, it's margarine. It is gluten free though. I agree with Momma Goose, check the label, yet, as a rule, butter is gluten free.

Margarines are loaded with soy quite often, so I no longer use them. Then last week I received this in an email, and I also checked it out at snopes.com and found this to be true:

Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys. When it

killed the turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the

research wanted a payback so they put their heads together to figure

out what to do with this product to get their money back. It was a

white substance with no food appeal so they added the yellow coloring and

sold it to people to use in place of butter. How do you like it?

They have come out with some clever new flavorings.

DO YOU KNOW...the difference between margarine and butter?

Read on to the end...gets very interesting!

Both have the same amount of calories.

Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams compared to

5 grams.

Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over

eating the same amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard Medical Study.

Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients

in other foods.

Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few

only because they are added!

Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the

flavors of other foods.

Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been

around for less than 100 years.

And now, for Margarine..

Very high in trans fatty acids.

Triple risk of coronary heart disease.

Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol)

and lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol)

Increases the risk of cancers up to five fold.

Lowers quality of breast milk.

Decreases immune response.

Decreases insulin response.

And here's the most disturbing fact.... HERE IS THE PART THAT IS

VERY INTERESTING!

Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC.

This fact alone was enough to have me avoiding margarine for life

and anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is added,

changing the molecular structure of the substance).

You can try this yourself:

Purchase a tub of margarine and leave it in your garage or shaded

area. Within a couple of days you will note a couple of things:

no flies, no! not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it (that

should tell you something)

it does not rot or smell differently because it has no nutritional value;

nothing will grow on it

Even those teeny weeny microorganisms will not a find a home to

grow. Why? Because it is nearly plastic. Would you melt your

Tupperware and spread that on your toast?

This makes me happy that I switched to butter.

[lovegrov]

In 7 years I've never found a butter that contains gluten. But, as always, check the ingredients.

richard

[lpellegr]

Somebody posted a while back that she got unsalted butter that had flavorings added, and that glutened her. Salted butter is generally just butter and salt.