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Article: Cold butter can be spreadable
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 30, 1987
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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 ...