If you feel like your butter is harder now than it was in the ``good ol'days,'' you are not alone.
The Quebec Dairy Producers wants farmers to stop feeding palm oil to livestock, over the belief that it makes butter harder.
However, Professor Alejandro Marangoni at the University of Guelph, says while components of palm oil found in milk fat can affect the melting point of butter, there's no data to support ``sensationalist'' claims of a great hardening.
It all started in December when, the Director of the Agri-Food Lab at Dalhousie University, Sylvain Charlebois, asked if anyone found that butter was getting harder?
Foodies answered in droves saying yes.
And Charlebois had a theory that farmers were adding palm oil to the feed they give their dairy cows.
The Dairy Farmers of Canada then admitted that palm products are sometimes added to dairy cows rations in limited amounts to increase the energy density of their diets.
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