On Aug 5, 3:24*pm, Christopher Helms > wrote:
> On Aug 5, 2:50*pm, " > wrote:
>
> > How come if I look at the ingredient list on a pound of salted butter
> > it has just cream and salt listed in the ingredients but if I look on
> > a package of unsalted butter it lists natural flavoring as one of the
> > ingredients? *I looked at three different brands of unsalted butter
> > and none of them were just plain cream.
>
> Unsalted butter uses something called 'Starter Distillate' to make the
> butter taste better. It's a by-product of some bacteria or other.
> That's the "natural flavoring" they were referring to. Apparently
> real, unsalted butter would be pretty bland without a few carefully
> chosen yeasties eating, breeding and pooping around in it.

Here's a link. Muslims take this stuff *very* seriously.

http://www.muslimconsumergroup.com/I...wing redients