Butter Spray vs. Real Butter

Rock Star Naomi recently posted this on the Six Week Sprint to Summer Facebook page. It was so good and so well explained and researched I wanted all of the Get Fit NH family to benefit from her work. I know you will be surprised by the conclusions she found.

“Excuse the long rant but I thought I’d share this. I was interested to know what was in this spray butter that we use (I stopped using it during the cleanse). As you know, it claims to be “0” Calorie and “0” Fat.

1.These are the ingredients in the “butter spray”: Water, Soybean Oil, Buttermilk, Salt, Soy Lecithin And Polyglycerol Esters Of Fatty Acids (Emulsifiers), Xanthan Gum, Potassium Sorbate And Sodium Benzoate (To Preserve Freshness), Lactic Acid (Acidulant), Artificial Flavor, Colored With Beta Carotene (Source Of Vitamin A), Vitamin A Palmitate.

2. Ignore the long list of preservatives (some of which are potential carcinogens) and emulsifiers and focus on the second and third: soybean oil and buttermilk. It doesn’t take a food scientist to realize there is fat in both of those ingredients.

3. ConAgra (owner of the Parkay brand) confirmed “ There are .8 calories in 1 spray and 4.0 calories in 5 sprays. Fat content is .085grams in 1 spray, .4grams in 5 sprays” That means that in the entire bottle there are 813 total calories from 90 grams of fat.

4. Why it is they can list it as 0 calories? The FDA labeling law says that if there’s less than 1/2 gram of fat in a serving, a food can be labeled “Fat-Free.” The catch is, nobody regulates what the food companies refer to as a serving size.

5. Bottom line: A stick of butter has less calories (810) and the same amount of fat (91) than a bottle of this stuff. I’m stickin with natural oils: butter, ghee, peanut oil, avocado oil, coconut oil, olive oil. They are natural and contain no carcinogens.”

Based on the facts that Naomi dug up, what are you going to use in your kitchen?

Coach Nancy