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Lurpak Lighter Spreadable
by pinecroft33 I love Lurpak. I converted myself and my daughter some time ago. my parents are occasional users and I'm always on the lookout for people to bring over to the Lurpak way of thinking. Its a little more expensive than some brands but the taste is second to none. Recently, on a shopping trip alone, my partner commited the cardinal sin ... of subsituting a regular brand for their lower calorie alternative. NOOOOOOOOOOOO!! You can not compromise on some things, mayonaise and Lurpak are just two in a long list of many. So here is the deal. He came home with not just a Lurpak Lighter, but a catering size Lurpak Lighter. I hinted that this was not good and he assured me we would not be able to tell the difference. After a week he was ready to ditch the jumbo pack and go out to fetch a regular. This I felt was a little wreckless so I declined and insisted we do our time. So what's it like. Well like any other low calorie spread its quite yellow and has that texture that allows the knife leave dredge marks in it. Secondly it has that non taste to it, not the rich and creamy taste of regular Lurpak!! Thirdly as with all low fat spreads, it makes your toast soggy, to the point where you would rather have it dry. Then to add insult to injury, on bread it just sort of sat there on the surface all hard and uninviting. The balloons were out when we came to the end of the tub - abou three weeks later, so I suppose it was good value for money, or did we just avoid using it until we were desperate? Really, if your thinking of your wasteline - have one biccy less and stick with the real deal. Read the complete review |
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Lurpak Slightly Salted Spreadable
by mjc121 Now we all know that too much fat is bad for you especially saturated fat. Then again there is a constant debate over which is actually better for you, butter or the chemically produced laboratory invented and chemically messed around with 'margarine' (you can probably guess which one I favour). Now I only tend to use butter ... on toast and things like scones and toasted tea cakes etc. This is not to limit my fat intake it's because I just hate the lumps of unspreadable butter I get after trying to use it directly from the fridge on my sandwiches. Ok I know I don't need to keep it in the fridge in the winter but in summer, unless you want a sloppy oily mess you tend to have to. Anyway to try to get back to the point I was up north visiting my parents over Christmas and my mum who only buys butter when my brother or I are visiting. This time she had accidentally bought Lurpak spreadable. This is something I have never before wanted to try but I still gave it a go as getting to the shops with all the snow wasn't going to be easy. This item cost £2.80 for a 500g tub when my mum bought it. As I believe butter (like all basic foods) is exempt from VAT the price should not have changed from this increase. What I thought of it. Well it did not really spread directly from the fridge but it was easier than proper butter and it certainly becomes easily spreadable far quicker than normal butter does. The pale yellow colour was a bit off putting as Lurpak tends to be whiter in colour. There is also a slightly greasy look to this product as it warms up. This is owing to the vegetable fat slightly demulsifying from the rest of the product. This is something which could never be left out of the fridge in the summer or you would end up with a pot of oil. The taste was certainly buttery but not really the taste one gets from the regular stuff. Lurpak tends to be my usual butter as I like the soft slightly milky creaminess of it. This was slightly lacking here. Yes it did taste of butter and not that awful half fat butter muck that was all the rage a few years ago so it wasn't all bad in the taste department. The saltiness of the butter was instantly noticeable, however, this is mainly due to the fact I tend to buy unsalted butter at home and my taste buds are quite sensitive to salt. This is despite Lurpak having one of the lowest salt levels in the butter market. There was, however, a bit of a cloying oily after taste of the vegetable oil with it which normal butter does not give. Also my lips felt a bit greasy after eating it. Again this is something I do not get with regular butter unless I am messy with it. I was slightly put off by this. Still that was just on toast, dinner with jacket potatoes was a different somewhat unpleasant experience. Here after putting the butter onto the hot potato it sort of separated slightly and looked like it had split. This is something I have not seen with regular butter, yes this spreadable stuff was in date and it still tasted as like butter as it could but seeing the result made me not want to repeat this particular use of this product. Whilst this does claim it is also suitable for baking I would not use it for this as I feel the salt content would get in the way of the taste of my cakes etc. As for frying I don't use butter as I feel this is a waste of butter. Butter also tends to burn if it gets too hot which is quite easy if frying with it. The addition of the vegetable oil in the product might help prevent this as you are advised to add this to butter if frying with it in any case. Is it any 'better' for you? Well as I have said earlier this is open to interpretation. However, the blending with the vegetable oil does have the benefit of lowering the level of saturated fat so I suppose there are some plus points. There are also no hydrogenated fats in this product so there is a low level of trans-fat as well. Nutritional info per 10g serving Energy - 298Kj / 72 kcal Protein - 0.05g Carbs - 0.06g (sugars 0.06g) Fat - 8.0g (saturates 3.7g, monounst 2.8g) Salt - 0.09g Summary: In all this was a passable alternative to regular butter and being able to spread it much more easily was a big plus. There are, however, I feel a few too many negatives to this to replace my real full butter with this. Whether the unsalted alternative would be any better I don't know and I am not all that willing to try it any time soon. As for the argument between butter and margarine I go for butter every time. Ok yes it is higher in saturated fat but at least the product is 100% natural. Also my gran used butter all her live and liked it so thick on her bread she could leave teeth marks in it and she lived till she was 92. If it was good enough for her then it's good enough for me. Read the complete review |
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Lurpak Slightly Salted Spreadable
by xxfoxyredxx I love butter but it really is a rarity that I will purchase it. However my flatmate did the other day and to see spreadable lightly salted butter that is meant to be spreadable turn up literally delighted me! The Packaging: White and silver coloured tub with a lift on/off lid to the top of it and on the lid and to ... two sides of the tub I am told that it is Lurpak (with a coat of arms shown) Spreadable, Slightly Salted 'Lurpak Butter 'Blended With Vegetable Oil' and the size is stated which in this case is 500g. Other information on the tub includes being told a bit about the product, a nutritional chart is shown, ingredients are given (I'm told that it is suitable for Vegetarians) and contact details for Arle Foods Ltd (the manufacturer of the product are given). There is a small plastic 'lip' to the lid for ease of opening and a pull off foil to protect the butter included too. A Bit About The Product According To The Information Listed On The Tub: Pure Lurpak butter blended with vegetable oil Suitable for cooking, baking, frying and home freezing Contains no additives, artificial colourings or preservatives Contains no hydrogenated fats or oils Packaging not suitable for microwave. The Butter Itself: Light yellow in colour, I was surprised by the lightness colourwise of this butter. Smooth and slightly greasy in appearance, providing this isn't stored in the fridge it really is spreadable though after being in the fridge I feel that although it isn't as hard to spread on bread etc as other butters I have used in the past it really is a struggle....still! The taste of though is ok. To me again it is rather greasy as it is really blended with vegetable oils so isn't as creamy as I would like and I can taste mainly oil. However it is gently salted and not too much so though you can taste that flavour added. I didn't only use this on toast and sandwiches and the like, I did shallow fry with a little of this too and this is where it came in handy. Cooking with butter can be tricky as on its own it will burn but this is already pre blended with oil and so is fine and I did use some of this in some plain scones though to me it made them a bit too salty so do be careful in what you put this into and if the recipe recommends salt, personally I would leave it out as this provides quite a lot flavourwise. Verdict: Spreadablish .....yes though to me a bit too greasy and a bit too salty and I appreciate a butter more churned and creamy however it isn't awful or anything! Nutritional Information (The important bits!) Per 10g Serving: Energy: 72Kcal Fat: 8.0g Of which saturates: 3.7g Sodium: 0.03g Salt equivelent: 0.09g Available in all good supermarkets etc and our 500g tub cost £2.80 in Asda. Read the complete review |
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