Eating ghee: What makes it a multipurpose dairy staple

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Eating ghee in cooking is a unique way to enhance taste but at the same time it is a natural way to add more health benefits in your foods and beverage.

Loads of fats, the support of antioxidants and heart friendly vitamins and fatty acids are the reason behind the ghee benefits.

Ghee as cooking oil is a versatile one. You can use this clarified butter in baking, in sautéing, in deep frying, as well as for seasoning. You can use ghee butter for slow cooking process too.
The high smoking point of ghee stands responsible for this versatility. In comparison to butter or other cooking oils organic cow ghee offers higher smoke point 250 °C (482 °F), which is much higher than butter or other cooking oils (200 °C (392 °F). Higher smoking point of ghee makes it a safer cooking oil.

Ghee is known as brown butter also. Like dairy butter, ghee can be used raw in food. For example, you can use ghee as seasoning in salad or as a spread in morning toast.
The fat content of ghee supplies energy for the consumer and works as a filler food for the dieters. If you are following ketogenic diet, ghee can be of great help for you. Clarified butter (ghee) controls hunger pang and that is why can control calorie intake.

Grass fed organic ghee contains omega 3 and 6 fatty acids and CLA; both of these fatty acids are helpful in shedding extra body weight. Cooking with ghee or ghee in diet is extremely helpful for obesity management if you can couple your ghee diet with an active life style.
Moderate ghee in diet can help you in staying revitalized for long. Exercise and ghee diet reciprocates each other that results in great weight management.

Ghee in diet is good for maintaining lustrous skin and hair. Fat soluble vitamins like A,D, E are found present in cow ghee and restricted use of ghee in cooking supplies all these nutrients in health system.

Ghee diet can helps in reviving skin health. Its moisturizing quality, power of natural hydration offers excellent hydrating benefits. Besides skin health, ghee revitalized hair scalp and promote hair health in a positive way.

Brown butter contains butyrate, which is a well-known remedy to control the irritation of constipation. Adding ghee in your food you can fight the irritation of constipation. As a whole ghee in diet helps in maintaining a healthy colon. Not only constipation, patients of IBS will feel relaxed with ghee diet. Cow ghee pacifies colon and provides physical and emotional stability.

We call a food or food ingredient multipurpose when that product helps us in staying fir in different ways. Eating ghee may turn health friendly if you maintain a healthy and active life style.

Starting from morning tea, you can include ghee in diet at the bed time with milk or in glassful warm water. How much ghee you can consume per day will depend your age, general health, and on your life style, etc.

 

However, earing ghee is not more a food luxury: it has become staple food in your diet if you want to stay fit and fine. 

Besides asking your physician for permission for ghee in diet, always use best quality and 100% grass fed cow ghee to enjoy best possible ghee benefits.

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Ref:

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghee
2. https://www.bonappetit.com/story/things-to-know-before-cooking-with-ghee
3. https://rachaelsgoodeats.com/whats-ghee-and-why-should-i-be-using-it-in-my-cooking/