Although animal butter and vegetable butter are both called "cream", their nutritional value, mounting technology, and storage difficulty are hugely different. Let's get to know each other.
First of all, look at the two pictures above. Take animal-based cream and rub it in your palms. The cream will disappear quickly, just like applying a layer of hand cream. But instead of disappearing, the vegetable cream will form in the palm of your hand. Why is this? Vegetable butter is cheap, easy to shape and store
This is because the maintenance temperature of animal butter is between 0-5℃, neither high nor low, and the shelf life is short. Vegetable butter can maintain its shape regardless of the outside temperature, but animal butter is difficult to frame and difficult to preserve. Therefore, the cake models displayed in cake shops are often made of plant-based cream.
Animal butter is relatively expensive and its selling price remains high. However, during the whipping process of the same butter, plant butter has a higher expansion rate, is cheap and easy to shape. Animal butter is more beneficial to human health
But there is a reason why animal butter is expensive. It is extracted from fresh milk. In addition to milk fat, it also contains vitamin A, calcium, and rich protein. Milk fat also contains 30% unsaturated fatty acids that are good for the human body. Vegetable butter does not have a "milk" component. Instead, it contains a large amount of trans fat that is not good for the body. Moreover, hydrogenated oil can be absorbed by the human body and can easily cause health problems.
So if you need to use cream at home, please choose "animal whipped cream". Those who come to the cake shop occasionally should not eat the small cakes often.
Nowadays, everyone pays more and more attention to healthy eating. Therefore, the issue of vegetable butter and animal butter has been taken seriously by everyone.
First of all, let’s look at their differences from several aspects
1. Ingredients: Animal fresh cream is extracted from milk. Vegetable butter is made from hydrogenated vegetable oils, and its ingredients include palm oil, corn syrup and other hydrogenated ingredients. It is also called "margarine"
2. Taste: Animal butter is a refined dairy product, so it has a rich milky flavor and a smooth and fragrant taste. The aftertaste is very strong. Plant-based butter has a light texture and no milky aroma, and the resulting taste is flavorful and sweet.
3. Appearance: Visually, the animal cream is slightly yellow in color and the texture looks thick. The plant-based cream is very, very white in color.
4. Decoration: The most obvious difference between vegetable butter and animal butter is most easily seen through decoration. Due to its own nature, animal butter melts easily when exposed to high temperatures. Vegetable cream is very malleable and has a high melting point, which makes the flowers mounted with it very fine-grained.
5. Health: Vegetable butter, also known as margarine, will produce trans fatty acids during the production process. This term has become well-known in recent years. Its intake will cause cardiovascular consequences. The most obvious harm is that it is one of the biggest culprits of obesity. Animal butter is extracted from milk. Although it is relatively healthy, it is still a high-fat ingredient and should be consumed in moderation.