Let's Hear It For Butter!!

5 things:

1.  If you eat half a pound of salted butter, you'll get 113% of your daily Vitamin A requirement.

2.  I can't find a nutritional value chart for butter that measures less than half a pound  (or 227 g).  You have to figure it out for yourself.  227 grams of butter is 16 tablespoons (@14 grams apiece) or two sticks of butter.

3.  But the sodium and saturated fat and cholesterol values for that much butter just SCREAM at you. 

4.  Of course, none of us (except possibly Paula Deen from the Food Network in her previous manifestation before she had to lose all that weight) eats THAT much butter in one go.  And I seriously doubt that she did that.

5.  I do love butter, though.  And what's wrong with cholesterol?  Our own body makes it, and it fixes a lot of our problems without our having to do anything but have enough of it on hand.  And the fat-soluble vitamins (A, D, E, & K) need fat to be digested. I'm still mulling over the benefits of using salt-free butter, though.  People who bake with butter recommend using salt-free butter, and I recall with horror the SALTY taste of the first batch of cookies I ever made using oleomargarine instead of butter.  Now, 60+ years later, I avoid margarine like the plague.  But not butter.  I do love butter (said that).....