Animal butter, a kind of natural dairy products, is a solid oil processed from milk. Its main component is milk. As early as 3000 years ago, animal butter already existed. Vegetable butter is a product invented in modern times. In a sense, it is born to imitate butter (animal butter). In the process of making vegetable butter, it is necessary to partially hydrogenate vegetable oil and then add various artificial flavors to imitate the taste of butter. Although the shape and taste are somewhat similar to animal butter, the ingredients are completely different. The main components of vegetable butter are hydrogenated vegetable oil and various food additives. In terms of composition, vegetable butter belongs to margarine, the main components are hydrogenated vegetable oil and food additives, animal butter belongs to natural butter, and the main component is milk.

If you are not a friend who often bakes, just take out two pieces of butter and let everyone know which one is plant butter and which one is animal butter. I believe many people will not be able to recognize it for a while. If we want to distinguish them from each other in appearance, we mainly look at their texture and state in a refrigerated environment. Vegetable butter looks dry, its texture is not smooth enough, and it is also soft in a refrigerated environment, so it is easy to cut with a knife. Animal butter, on the other hand, looks smooth, with obvious greasy feeling, and its state will change obviously with different temperatures. It is hard in a refrigerated environment and difficult to cut with a knife, and it will begin to soften at room temperature. In terms of texture, vegetable butter is still soft and easy to cut with a knife, while animal butter is hard and difficult to cut with a knife.

Vegetable butter has a rough taste, is not easy to melt in the mouth, and can eat obvious flavor. Compared with vegetable butter, animal butter tastes much more delicate, and it melts easily in the mouth, with a natural butter flavor, rich milk flavor and no essence flavor. From the taste point of view, vegetable butter has obvious additive taste, which is not natural, while animal butter tastes natural butter taste, and the former taste is obviously not as good as the latter.

The main components of vegetable butter are hydrogenated vegetable oil and various food additives. Regardless of the disadvantages of food additives, let's talk about this hydrogenated vegetable oil, which contains a substance called "trans fatty acid". Many studies have shown that this is a kind of fat that is not good for human health. The main component of animal butter is milk, which also contains some nutrients in milk. Although the fat content is high, it is easy to get fat after eating, but the nutrition is still higher than that of plant butter. From the nutritional point of view, vegetable butter contains trans fatty acids harmful to human body, and its nutritional value is naturally worse than that of natural animal butter.