--- title: Americans Are Rekindling Their Love Affair With Butter description: Americans are rediscovering their taste for butter despite previous notions of the dairy product's unhealthiness authors: - name: Aric Jenkins url: https://money.com/author/aric-jenkins/ at_money_since: 2017 articles: 48 covers: - Lifestyle - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Housing - Identity Theft - Shopping - Taxes - Technology social: - https://x.com/aricwithan_a former_staff: true published: '2017-03-14T15:47:12.000Z' modified: '2024-04-17T05:26:00.000Z' section: Lifestyle tags: - Food - onetime word_count: 236 canonical: https://money.com/american-butter-consumption-2017/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![Knob of butter melting over corn on the cob, black background](https://img.money.com/2017/03/go-get-the-butter.jpg) Americans are rediscovering their taste for [butter](http://www.extracrispy.com/food/1785/this-is-butter-you-can-believe-in) despite previous notions of the dairy product's unhealthiness. The nation is expected to consume 8% more butter than last year, reaching 940,000 metric tons, according to a [report from the United States Department of Agriculture](https://apps.fas.usda.gov/psdonline/circulars/dairy.pdf). That's the largest amount of butter consumed since 1967, [Bloomberg reports](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-14/a-fatty-staple-once-public-health-enemy-no-1-makes-a-comeback). In recent decades, butter had developed a reputation for [clogging arteries](https://time.com/4669635/worst-foods-for-heart/), but companies are now marketing it as a safer alternative to the trans fats found in processed foods like margarine. A 2015 study from McMaster University in Canada found that trans fats increase the risk of death by 34%, [according to the *Telegraph*](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/03/15/butter-unlikely-to-harm-health-but-margarine-could-be-deadly/), though the study's lead author — Dr. Russell de Souza, an assistant professor at the university's Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics — was careful to advocate a little caution: "Trans fats have no health benefits and pose a significant risk for heart disease, but the case for saturated fat is less clear, de Souza said, according to the *Telegraph*. "That said, we aren't advocating an increase of the allowance for saturated fats in dietary guidelines, as we don't see evidence that higher limits would be specifically beneficial to health." Most recently, food companies are starting to adopt more use of butter. Bob Evans Farms market their Belgian waffles "made with real butter," Bloomberg points out, and McDonald’s has shifted to [cooking its McMuffin breakfast sandwiches with real butter](http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/31/mcdonalds-is-messing-with-your-mcmuffin-embracing-butter.html). ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/american-butter-consumption-2017/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Lifestyle", "item": "https://money.com/lifestyle/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Health and Wellness", "item": "https://money.com/health-and-wellness/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Americans Are Rekindling Their Love Affair With Butter" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/american-butter-consumption-2017/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/american-butter-consumption-2017/", "name": "Americans Are Rekindling Their Love Affair With Butter", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2017-03-14T15:47:12.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/american-butter-consumption-2017/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/american-butter-consumption-2017/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2024-04-17T05:26:00.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "Americans Are Rekindling Their Love Affair With Butter", "articleSection": "Lifestyle", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2017/03/go-get-the-butter.jpg", "width": 4966, "height": 3281, "caption": "butter" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Aric Jenkins", "url": "https://money.com/author/aric-jenkins/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/aric-jenkins/#author", "sameAs": [ "https://x.com/aricwithan_a" ] } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2017-03-14T15:47:12.000Z", "description": "Americans are rediscovering their taste for butter despite previous notions of the dairy product's unhealthiness", "abstract": "Americans are rediscovering their taste for butter despite previous notions of the dairy product's unhealthiness", "@id": "https://money.com/american-butter-consumption-2017/", "inLanguage": "en-US", "dateModified": "2024-04-17T05:26:00.000Z", "wordCount": 236, "keywords": [ "Food", "onetime" ], "about": [ { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Lifestyle", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyle" ] }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Health", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health" ] } ] } ] } ```