A total of 17 out of 20 butter brands fail the Ökotest – including Gut & cheap, Ja!
and Kerrygold
Created: 11/19/2022, 12:00 p.m
By: Janine Napirca
Butter has not only become more expensive, it has also become inferior in quality.
This is the result of the new Ökotest.
Ökotest took a closer look at various brands of butter and the test results are worrying: 17 types of butter out of 20 tested failed.
Ökotest lists mineral oil components as the main reason.
Of 14 butters rated 6, i.e. “insufficient”, 13 brands were found to have significantly increased mineral oil values.
In addition, the value of green fodder-typical fatty acids is often too low.
According to Ökotest, the omega-3 fatty acids show how the animals were kept and how much grass or hay the cows, from whose milk the butter was made, ate.
What kind of butter do you serve at home?
Almost all tested brands fail the Ökotest.
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You can also substitute oil for butter.
The butter-oil conversion table, for example, is helpful.
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Test winner: Only one butter brand was able to convince in the Ökotest and achieve the grade "good".
With all the negative test results, at least one brand of butter was able to convince Ökotest: Transparent dairy barrel butter Naturland organic sour cream butter achieved the test grade "good".
The organic butter Andechser Natur Bio Almbutter sour cream butter from Bioland was still rated "satisfactory".
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The big losers in Ökotest's butter analysis
Ökotest found the most mineral oil residues in the ÖMA Allgäu farmer's butter sour cream.
By far the most saturated mineral oil hydrocarbons were detected in the tested butter.
In addition, the butter loser stood out negatively in the Ökotest with a value of 19.8 mg/kg of aromatic mineral oil hydrocarbons - ten times higher than the EU guideline value.
This is a content that has never been measured in our test history.
Ökotest on the value of aromatic mineral oil hydrocarbons in the ÖMA Allgäu farmer's butter sour cream
Other well-known and popular butter brands were also rated very poorly and failed the Ökotest.
These include established brands such as Alnatura mountain farmers sweet cream butter, Landliebe butter, creamy and fresh, mildly acidified, and Kerrygold Original Irish butter, mildly acidified, as well as bestsellers from popular supermarket chains, such as Gut & Billig German branded butter, mildly acidified by Edeka, Ja!
German branded butter mildly acidified by Rewe, Milsani German branded butter mildly acidified by Aldi and Milbona sweet cream butter by Lidl.
