Apparently, due to the information such as that found in this representative article, people are putting butter in their coffee.
I’m not making this up.
My question: how real is this? Is grassfed (or pasture raised; and what’s the distinction, if any?) butter really that good for you that you need to put it in your coffee?
Don’t get me wrong; you never met anyone happier to find new ways to wrap himself around some butter. I’m not saying I’d eat butter on a stick if it was offered to me, but I’m not committing to turning it down either. If there’s a single argument in favor of rehabilitating Paula Deen it’s that she introduced the phrase “fried butter” into my universe.
But still. Really? Grassfed butter is so fundamentally different from grainfed butter that we should make sure to consume a daily dose, like it’s medicine?
How legit is the science on this?
And if it’s legit, should I get ALL my dairy from such happy cows? I mean, would I be canceling out the benefits of greasy coffee by consuming conventional milk or ice cream? I.e., will I achieve more benefits by removing grainfed butterfat from my diet? or is it sufficient just to add some grassfed to my existing nutritional profile?
Didn’t see anything in the linked page about coffee health-wise, but I’ll put a tiny morsel of butter in my coffee if we’re out of half-and-half. Huge difference in flavour without adding an appreciable amount of butter. It can also help to add a very small amount of salt to bitter coffee.
Sorry, looks like I was unclear. My question is more about the butterfat than the coffee. I’m more likely to put it on a cinnamon roll than in my coffee.
talking about a study done at Harvard. There are a ton of other links in that articles; I had already heard of this development as my girlfriend is a devotee of the Bulletproof Executive, who is all about this.
I’ve had the Bulletproof Coffee (2 cups of coffee, some MCT oil and 2 tablespoons of grass-fed butter blended together). It’s surprisingly not-awful.
And, people can discuss the factual accuracy of scientific claims in Cafe Society.
Never tried eggs or butter in my coffee (but have heard of it) but salt in black coffee definitely cuts the bitterness and improves taste if one is forced to drink cheap coffee. Some add a pinch later, some in the basket before brewing. Many cites for this.
