Ingredient: Butter

Many of us can remember making butter as a child from shaking the creamy top of the milk in a jam jar. Butter is such a simple everyday ingredient and the latest health info is that real butter is much better for you than fake dairy alternative spreads and margarines.

Choose grass-fed yellow butter where possible as it contains more Vitamin A (for skin, eye and gut health) and Vitamin K2 (which you need if you bruise easily or have brittle bones).

Adding butter to your veggies will also help to enhance the absorption of their nutrients and can make veg taste better too.

Butter (and clarified butter, called Ghee) contain the short chain fatty acid butyrate which is a key nutrient needed for optimal gut health – it helps to control inflammation and repair gut cell DNA.