butterfat
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Butterfat or milkfat is the fatty portion of milk. Milk and cream are often sold according to the amount of butterfat they contain.
Nutrition · Open Food Facts
Typical values per 100 g · averaged across 42 products
- Energy
- 761 kcal
- Fat
- 87.4 g
- — of which saturates
- 56 g
- Carbohydrates
- 3.4 g
- — of which sugars
- 0.1 g
- Fibre
- 0 g
- Protein
- 0.9 g
- Salt
- 0.41 g
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- Composition
- U.S. standards
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- References
Butterfat or milkfat is the fatty portion of milk. Milk and cream are often sold according to the amount of butterfat they contain.
== Composition == thumb|400px|Structure of a triglyceride containing myristic, palmitic, and oleic acid Butterfat is mainly composed of triglycerides. Each triglyceride contains three fatty acids. Butterfat triglycerides contain the following amounts of fatty acids (by mass fraction):
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