My groceries just got delivered, they helpfully got me real butter… the package proudly says “Pure Butter”

  • 82% Butter oil
  • 2% Milk Powder
  • ?% Soy lecithin

You will notice this “pure button” has ingredients that don’t add up to 100%… Butter oil is problematic, it often is a wacky way of saying vegetable oil (though some definitions make it almost sound like Ghee).

In no universe can adding Soy!!! to a product still count as Pure… that is just a lie.

If this is Pure butter why do they need to add milk powder? sigh…

  • jetOPMAEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    it kinda pisses me off

    • xep@discuss.onlineMEnglish
      1·
      9 hours ago

      I’d be pissed off too. How is Butter Oil mixed with Soy Lecithin anything near butter. Is there a consumer protection agency where this kind of thing can be sorted out?

      • jetOPMAEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        Fairly common in Asia for butter not to be butter but disguised vegetable oil. I’ve been tricked before, but this is the first time with a “pure butter” label. Real and pure have different meanings I guess.

        • foodandart@lemmy.zipEnglish
          3·
          19 hours ago

          Hmmm.

          I suppose it is like in the US where olive oil is imported and it claims to have 100% olive oil in it… in a 20% balance with some other non-olive oil.

          Honey can be the same… “Pure honey” that is only 50% honey from bees. The rest is condensed corn syrup and colorant.

          There was a dairy called The Organic Cow of Vermont, that for years WAS from Vermont farms… until it got bought out and the milk came from industrial “organic” farms in Colorado - they only way customers knew this was that the packing labels stated the origin…

          I actually wrote the company’s HQ in Colorado and read them the riot act on their name and that I was going to be going off like an air raid siren that their product was NOT from Vermont or the local farms there and wasn’t going to purchase from them again as long as they claimed to be something they weren’t.

          A few years later it changed to the Organic Cow milk and finally became Horizon Organic milk. Regardless, Horizon is industrial in scale, so I don’t buy from them.

          Scammers are so vile.

        • SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.worldEnglish
          5·
          1 day ago

          Yeah, wiggle-word crap like that is what lawyers live for - it’s no wonder Shakespeare’s line about killing them all is one of his more popular ones.