The word butter has two meanings. One refers to cow dairy products, and the other refers to the oil extracted from the fatty tissue of cows. The two meanings are easily confused. The disadvantage of butter hot pot is that it is a fatty oil, and eating too much is not good for the human body. The details are as follows:

The first meaning: butter, the English name is butter or butter fat.

Butter is a fat extracted from milk. It is a dairy product made from the top layer of raw milk that has a higher fat content before being homogenized. "Cream" is the industry's normative term, and butter is the popular name for butter. In Hong Kong and Macao, butter is often called butter.

The second meaning: the fat extracted from the adipose tissue of cattle, the English name is beef tallow.

The butter in butter hot pot generally refers to the second meaning:|

Butter is the fat oil of bovine cattle or buffalo, white solid or semi-solid. The composition ratio of three fatty acids is: saturated fatty acid 61.8, monounsaturated fatty acid 34.0, polyunsaturated fatty acid 4.5. Crude beef tallow is mostly used as industrial raw materials for soap, fatty acids, oils and greases.

Fresh tallow oil can be made into pastries and food after being refined. It is also a nutritious health food. Beef tallow contains a variety of saturated fatty acids such as palmitic acid and myristic acid, and only a small amount of unsaturated fatty acids. Most people can eat it, but it is not advisable to eat too much as it may induce the recurrence of old diseases and sores. Because animal oil is high in calories and cholesterol, it is not suitable for the elderly, obese and patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Of course, beef tallow is sweet, warm and slightly toxic; it can treat alopecia areata caused by various sores, scabies, etc. It can be added to flour products, but it is not advisable to eat too much as it may induce the recurrence of old diseases and sores.