She’ll repeatedly bring up a wad of saliva-soaked grass, called a bolus, from her rumen back into her mouth.

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organoleptic benefits

Freshly made butter, for instance, was essential for celebrating Imbolc (pronounced “EEM-olk”), the spring Druid festival that paid homage to the holy day of Brigid, the pagan goddess of fire, healing, and fertility.

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Now with better lipoprotein science at hand, researchers are gradually dismantling the simplistic (if not erroneous) assumption that saturated fat is categorically bad and rebuilding a much more nuanced and individualized understanding of what causes heart disease. In the process, butter is getting a long overdue pardon.

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A ewe, for example, will give milk with twice the fat content of cow’s milk; goat’s milk has fat molecules that are smaller and more digestible, but it lacks carotene so goat butter is white; milk from a yak has less milk sugar (lactose) and more protein than cow’s milk; camel’s milk is similar to goat’s milk in composition, but it can have up to t