Lurpak Spreadable

Zandoni

I've used Lurpak Spreadable slightly salted for years and lately I've noticed it's changed.

Taste wise it seems OK but it has become hard to spread, it seems more oily. It won't stay on the knife or on the bread it has a weird texture.

Obviously they have cheapened the recipe although they tell me they haven't.

Has anyone else noticed?

2childmum2

I don't use lurpak but I've noticed it with other spreads too. 

Abbafan1972

I haven’t used LURPAK for years as I thought it had always been difficult to spread. Vile stuff. lol. 

sarah1972

Probably more water added. 

There was a newspaper article this year saying they were one of the few who haven’t changed their recipes but technically adding more water isn’t an actual change?

Only a guess though as I only use proper butter. 

Green_hopeful

We use Waitrose spreadable which is ok but their butter is much harder. I can barely cut it when I get it out of the fridge. I wonder if they are putting water in it. 

Zandoni

sarah1972 said:

Probably more water added. 

There was a newspaper article this year saying they were one of the few who haven’t changed their recipes but technically adding more water isn’t an actual change?

Only a guess though as I only use proper butter. 

Sounds feasible, everything we buy now is cheapened.

sarah1972

Green_hopeful said:

We use Waitrose spreadable which is ok but their butter is much harder. I can barely cut it when I get it out of the fridge. I wonder if they are putting water in it. 

I don’t store butter in the fridge as it will be hard straight out of the fridge, but if you are referring to Waitrose essential butter then there is no water in it. Its butter and salt (‘if you buy the salted version)

Its the spreadables that usually have water in them which is true of Waitrose along with rapeseed oil, in fact I think it’s about 60% butter from memory 

HillStreetBlues

Beware of the "lighter" version, it has much more water and much less butter.

sarah1972

HillStreetBlues said:

Beware of the "lighter" version, it has much more water and much less butter.

The full fat one is only 64% which I thought was ridiculous but as you say, the lighter is 40% butter. Beggars belief why people pay a premium price for these things 🤦‍♀️

MrsStepford

When we bought our house, the difference between mortgage and rent saved us roughly £200 per month. Literally the first changes we made, were to switch to real butter from soya margarine and to change from sunflower oil to olive oil. 

I don't know why people buy any of these so-called spreadable butters. If you look at the ingredients, they are really just margarines with added butter, plus emulsifiers to stop the two separating. They can be more expensive than butter. 

HillStreetBlues

sarah1972 said:

HillStreetBlues said:

Beware of the "lighter" version, it has much more water and much less butter.

The full fat one is only 64% which I thought was ridiculous but as you say, the lighter is 40% butter. Beggars belief why people pay a premium price for these things 🤦‍♀️

The higher the butter content the hard it is to spread, so there is a limit on how much better can be put in a spreadable one.
But the "lighter" one is a joke, much cheaper to produce but sells at same price.