In news:rec.food.cooking, brooklyn1 > posted on
Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:16:42 -0400 the following:

> On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:09:41 -0500, Damaeus
> > wrote:
>
> > I heard that margarine would be grey if they didn't add yellow coloring
> > to it. Isn't that sobering? I never have liked margarine. We don't
> > even buy it.
>
> Margerine would be snow white like Crisco (not grey) so it's colored
> with annetto... many years ago margerine came with a capsule of
> annetto one blended in themselves.
>
> > All we use here is real butter.
>
> Got news for you, the butter you buy is also colored with annetto...
> read the package carefully.

Got news for you... I've made my own butter from heavy whipping cream and
it was the exact same color as packaged butter, and I didn't put any
coloring in it at all. So either pasteurized cream is colored with
annetto, or packaged butter isn't colored with annetto. And here's the
nutrition label from the side of a package of Great Value salted sweet
cream butter from Wal-Mart. I just scanned it...now I have water droplets
on my scanner glass because the butter came out of the freezer:

http://home.earthlink.net/~phanes7/images/butterbox.jpg

Damaeus