Article: Cold butter can be spreadable

MADISON, Wis. Cold spreadable butter could be on store shelves within a year thanks to a new process that changes the composition of the product.

After 18 months of research, Land O'Lakes has invented a new buttermaking process that changes the composition of fat crystals to give butter a smoother-spreading quality when refrigerated.

The process, developed at a cost of $160,000 at the Land O'Lakes laboratory in Arden Hills, Minn., would require an investment of $1.7 million for each buttermaker that wishes to ...

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