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From: [e-mail] (David Barton)
Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
Subject: Re: Cholestrol content of Ghee
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Date: 26 Jan 93 17:12:55 GMT
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In article <d0#@byu.edu> $[e-mail] (Stephan Fassmann,
Software) writes:

   Does anyone kknow what the cholestrol content of Ghee, clarified
   butter, is?  I was reading the cereal box and noticed that whole
   milk has ~15 mg Cholestrol while skim milk has none. So applying a
   little logic and outdated chemisty, skim milk I think has no milk
   fats, and ghee is cooking out of milk fat so therefore ghee has
   little or no cholestrol.  Am I right or totally off base here?
   Thanks lots.

You are totally, completely, disasterously off base.  Ghee is made by
clarifying the butter with spices.  This draws off the milk *solids*,
not the milk fat.  It also eliminates the water in the butter.

Ghee has slightly more cholestrol than the butter from which it was
made, as it is more concentrated (water is elminated).  It is under no
circumstances a low-cholestrol, or low-fat, food.

                    Dave Barton
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