A California-based startup called Savor has figured out a unique way to make a butter alternative that doesn’t involve livestock, plants, or even displacing land. Their butter is produced from synthetic fat made using carbon dioxide and hydrogen, and the best part is —- it tastes just like regular butter.
Sounds kinda like Ersatz butter made from coal (yes coal), no?
Coal butter even tastes like regular butter according the history books.
The problem with Ersatz butter (oleo) is that it’s a mixture of hexa-, hepta-, and octa-esters of sucrose with various long chain fatty acids. The resulting radial arrangement is too large and irregular to move through the intestinal wall and be absorbed into the bloodstream.
What Savor has supposedly created is chemically identical to the fatty acids in butter. It’s not made of new compounds, but it’s made in an animal and planet friendly way.
i.e. not really healthy? Butter is not healthy, is it?
Nobody said this was healthy
But margarine is healthy often, at least fine
Eh… it’s just a bit less bad than cow milk butter.
Finally a use for old coal mines