Cocoa butter is the natural, cream-colored vegetable fat extracted from cocoa beans during the process of making chocolate and cocoa powder. Even though the word "butter" is in its name, it does not contain dairy ingredients of any kind. Back to Top

Peanut butter today is remarkably like that made 100 years ago. All peanut butter must, by law, contain a minimum of 90% peanuts. Both natural and regular peanut butters may contain some sugar and salt for flavoring. Some brands also contain a small amount of stabilizer (partially hydrogenated vegetable oil) to keep the oil from separating, which most consumers prefer. This also helps maintain peanut butter freshness.

Theobroma cacao , more commonly know as cacao, refers to the tree that produces cocoa beans. Cocoa is a general term used to refer to the product made from cocoa beans and to the chocolate drinks and flavorings made from cocoa powder.

Cocoa refers to either the dried and partially fermented fatty seeds in the pod of the cacao tree. Cocoa is usually in the form of cocoa powder made from grinding the seed and removing the butter. Cacao (rhymes with cow) is the seed found in the pod of a cacao tree. This is this part that includes the butter and is used to make chocolate.

Natural' often is misrepresented in product labeling to imply 'healthful,' but 'natural' only means that the product has undergone minimal processing. Unlike products that are certified organic, natural products have no certification or inspection system. Also, 'natural' does not necessarily relate to growing methods or the use of preservatives.

We give our peanut butter a vigorous stir at the beginning (making sure to get all the way to the bottom!) and then refrigerate it. The chilly temp keeps it emulsified so there's no need to stir again.

Krema Natural Peanut Butter is 100% #1 Fancy Grade Spanish Peanuts. We do not add salt, sugar, hydrogenated vegetable oils or any other preservatives to our peanut butter. It's the same way we've been making it since the company started in 1898! It is always fresh, we roast our delicious peanuts in small batches just before grinding to ensure the best peanut butter possible.

Butter cookies are small bite size cookies usually decorated with sprinkles or fruit. Their primary ingredient is butter. We have assortments available by the pound which typically include some cookie bars as well as occasional candy pieces. Some butter cookies include nuts and flavors such as citron, almond and cardamom. Sugar cookies are cut out cookies in your favorite shape and decorated with fondant frosting. Sugar cookies at Deerfields are typically larger than butter cookies.

Cocoa is finely pulverised de-fatted, roasted CACAO kernels, to which natural and artificial spices and flavours may be added. It is commercially manufactured by pumping hot CHOCOLATE liquor (semi-liquid ground cacao kernels) into hydraulic cage presses where, under extreme pressure, part of the fat, or cocoa butter, is removed. The fat content of cocoa varies from less than 10% to 22% or more for breakfast or high fat cocoa.

Natural hormones are, in fact, bioidentical hormones. The fact that the bioidentical hormones come from natural plants (soy or yam plants) does not make them bioidentical. From there they are taken to a chemical plant where they are further processed into the bioidentical forms. They are further tested for bioidentical purity, so that when a compounding pharmacy receives these products they are ready to be compounded into different dosage forms.

The natural flavor is a starter distillate. Starter distillate is a steam distillate of a culture grown on a skim milk medium which has been fortified with .01% citric acid. The culture could be one of the following: Streptococcus lactis, S. cremoris, S. lactis Subsp, Diactylactis, or Lueconostoc. (These are cultures that can also be found in kefir) According to our butter maker, distillate give the butter an old-fashioned tang, without having to sour the cream to achieve it. [back to top]

Butter is a natural dairy product that has been used in cooking for millennia. Margarine is an industrial food substitute scientifically engineered to look vaguely like butter. The two can be interchanged in some recipes, however, too much margarine can cause Rickets.

Nut butter refers to nuts that may or may not be toasted before being ground into a smooth, creamy spread such as almond or peanut butter. Nut paste usually refers to ground nuts that have been blended with a quantity of sugar. Nut Pastes may be made from raw nuts that are cooked with sugar, such as for almond paste and marzipan. Some Europeans made this type of paste with raw pistachios. Apricot kernels may also be made into a paste of this type.

Many brands of natural peanut butter have a tendency to separate while baking. The trick is finding a brand that tastes good and can hold up to high heat situations. On the rare occasions I use peanut butter, it is generally Peanut Butter & Co.'s Smooth Operator, which is a natural peanut butter and things turn out fine. Creamy Peter Pan peanut butter is my favorite for baking amoung the non-natural peanut butters.

Kukui oil in its natural state has a distinctive odor. We pump steam through the oil under a vacuum to deodorize it.

Premium Grade A Shea Butter has been clinically analyzed and graded according to a scale established by the American Shea Butter Institute in an effort to provide uniformity in an industry heretofore lacking any means of quality control or standards. The scale is based on scientific evaluation of nonsoponifiables times the Vitamin A content divided by the percentage of free fatty acids times the peroxide count. Premium Grade A is the best of the 100% pure Shea Butters.

Wholly natural. Brewer's yeast may be the best source of the vitamin-B complex, so Marmite is rich with natural vitamin-B, as well as riboflavin and niacin.

Definition: A natural bridge is a type of natural arch. In general, a natural bridge is distinguished from other types of natural arches by having one or more of the following attributes: a current of water, such as a stream, clearly was a major agent in the formation of the opening (hole) [genetic] it has the general appearance of a man-made bridge, e.g., a flat, level top over an arched opening [anthropomorphic].