Organic Valley, Purity Farm 765081, Butter Ghee, 13 Ounce

This is an excellent organic ghee, and has a very fine, buttery flavor & aroma. It’s a stronger taste of butter than plain sweet cream butter, which may be a new experience for some people but don’t mistake this for gaminess like you’d expect from sheep or goat milk products tho, they’re not at all similar.

Ghee in general is somewhat expensive, considering 1lb of ghee is derived from over 4lbs of butter. And there is a somewhat limited selection of brands of organic ghee, so this makes the price higher.

I read that many producers of ghee are actually committing fraud by only using FRACTIONS of the milkfat – not the whole milkfat! Or, they’re substituting real milkfat with something else entirely, so ghee fraud is a big concern, just google it and you’ll see, in India it’s a major crime. I was stunned when I found this out.

I think one of the signs of these fraudulent ghees is how they separate at room temperature. I’ve seen plenty of other brands sitting on shelves, separated and lumpy looking, with a fake bright yellow color. These are the cheaper brands.

The Purity Farms brand does not have this problem. It stays solid at room temperature, even when my house has been above 80f inside (granted, inside the cabinets may be somewhat cooler.)

Another reason I prefer organic ghee: Fat stores a lot of the chemicals fed to cows, so it’s important to have a source of clean butter.

Reading the Purity Farms website, they do mention to be careful to use clean utensils in your jar of ghee otherwise a “harmless mold” can contaminate the product.

Also on their website, they state in their FAQ:

“Sometimes, the Ghee is lighter in color than other times. Why is that?”
“We use no colorings in our Ghee, and the slight differences in color are due to seasonal changes. Ghee made in the summer tends to be more “yellow” because the cows are grazing longer hours and have more chlorophyll in their systems.”

Although they do not say specifically that their ghee is made only from grass-fed cow butter, the above answer implies that this ghee is in fact from grass-fed butter.

I don’t generally cook with ghee – it’s too expensive and fine. I use it mainly for spreading on toast or other direct uses (such as a topper on cooked veggies or seafoods) so I can enjoy it in it’s most natural state. (I use cheaper EV olive oil for cooking except on rare occasions when the flavor of ghee is essential to the recipe.)

One 13oz large jar lasts me a good 2-3 months (using sparingly since the flavor is strong, it does not take a lot to enjoy.) Ghee will last indefinitely if kept from contamination by water or other food particles in the jar.

In any case, this is an outstanding product, not as high priced as the “Grassfed” brand, and excellent in every way. It’s worth the additional cost to get a high quality, pure product.

This is the second brand of ghee that I have tried and I like this one far and away above the other one (Nanak Pure Desi Ghee). This one doesn’t separate and has a smooth creamy consistency, whileas the other one is more gritty and the flavor is not nice just straight out of the jar. Purity Farm has me eating it straight out of the jar and it smells just heavenly.

I am very pleased with this product and would definitely buy it again. I especially like that it is casein-free as I have a dairy intolerance so even the small amounts of milk protein in regular butter might be an issue, but with this ghee I don’t have to worry about it.

*update* It is now a few months since I started ordering this and I have started ordering two jars at a time to make sure that I’m never without. I have confirmed that regular butter DOES cause me issues but ghee is perfectly fine due to being casein-free. I read that ghee is also an ayurvedic remedy for many things and is supposed to be healing for leaky-gut syndrome.

I also have to say that it makes a FANTASTIC moisturizer for the face! I have ultra ultra sensitive skin that just cannot handle the slightest amount of chemicals on it. I thought to myself one day to try ghee as a facial moisturizer as I desperately needed it. I put it on, thinking that I might get red from it or break out as I have from every other moisturizer attempt and… no reaction! Best of all, my dry, scaly patch on my face is now soft and smooth after only two applications! I’ve had that scaly patch for months! I am so excited about this find since most of the time I cannot do any topicals at all, but my skin just loved the ghee and drank it up. A little goes a long way, so if you do this, a pea-sized amount is plenty for a large area. Rub in gently but if your skin is dry it will soak up quickly leaving you feeling soft but not oily if you put on just a little bit at a time. You can always put more as needed, so don’t overdo at the beginning.

good product but too expensive- buy on sale only

Dear Purity – please stop messing with sizing. I was a devotee of this stuff years ago when it was available at my local wally world in the Indian food section. Wally inexplicably stopped carry it even in areas with a heavy population of people using it. So I found it on amazon. A little expensive but worth it. Then the next time I ordered it I found the price rose and when I got it found the jar had shrunk to something that looked sample sized. I was pretty upset. Same great ghee but more expensive than probably kobe beef per pound. I emailed Purity to try a find some other place local so I could see what I was ghetting (typo and it stays, heh). But they just told me to go to amazon. Long story short now I saw this new size with the new label and ordered. Again, same great ghee. The size might even be larger than my original, still pricey.

I have tried other ghees both from specialty stores and here on Amazon. This is the most shelf stable consistent quality but for goodness sake it is still darn expensive, especially if you need to go with a vendor that charges shipping. I just can’t make my own after the mess I had to clean up when I did make my own. After cleaning that you don’t want to look at ghee for a long time. But if you have nice big easy to clean kitchen/stove give it a try. It is not hard. Just messy. And smelly (good smell but still a lot of smell)>

I absolutely love this stuff. I often eat rice and use a rice cooker/steamer and before I found ghee I was using coconut oil to make sure that my rice didn’t stick to the bottom of the cooker. Coconut oil — while extremely good for you — didn’t taste too great in my rice. I like it better in oatmeal — it might just taste better combined with ‘sweet.’ Coconut oil does make an amazing butter substitute for grilled cheese, though. If you are vegan, coconut oil is also one of the few vegan choices.

But if you’re not a vegan, you should try cooking with ghee.

Ghee by itself doesn’t taste much like anything despite having a wonderful buttery scent. You need to cook with it to actually get out the flavor, and you’ll definitely know that it’s there once you bite into something that has been cooked with ghee. It makes everything taste better without the negative effects of butter or margarine which are commonly bought at stores.

The container is made of glass with a BPA free lid. I emailed the company and they told me that it is BPA free.

This lid is made of polypropylene. Polypropylene is one of the safer lids that can be offered. This is the only ghee I can find that is organic, grass-fed, and has a safe lid. Other ghee products seem to have BPA or “plastisol” food liners (plastisol contains PVC particles which is very carcinogenic and worse than BPA,) or are not ‘organic grass fed.’ If you’re worried about lids, just try to avoid glass jars with metal lids. If it is a glass jar with a plastic lid then it is usually made of polypropylene which is much safer.

There is no seal between the ghee and the lid. During hot weather the ghee will leak out of the jar. I had this happen to me because the seller shipped the ghee jar laying on its side rather than upright. I would definitely appreciate a seal. Seals also prevent any plastic leeching that might happen during hot weather shipments.