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This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on January 17, 2006.

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Date	Process	Result
December 2, 2005	Peer review	Reviewed
December 5, 2005	Featured article candidate	Promoted
August 18, 2008	Featured article review	Demoted

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Saturated fats content seems inaccurate

Latest comment: 11 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Nutritional information section reads: "Saturated fat is 51% of total fats in butter." Actually, 51% is the content of saturated fats in butter, not percentage of total fats. The latter is 51/81*100% = 63%. 46.112.112.4 (talk) 13:04, 16 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

Your calculation is correct, and the text was misleading. Thanks for pointing it out.

This is the USDA nutrition table for salted butter, showing that - in a 100 g sample - total fat is 81 g of which saturated fat is 51 g, monounsaturated fat is 21 g, polyunsaturated fat is 3 g, trans fat is 3 g, and trans fat designated as "18:1 t" is 3 g, for a total of 81 g. I added this description to the nutrition section with Special:Diff/1295915140. Zefr (talk) 16:50, 16 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

Two "Production" sections?

Latest comment: 5 months ago2 comments1 person in discussion

there's two production sections in this article. Should they be merged?, should one be renamed? I'd vote for a merger but I'm not sure how one would go about it. Ovinr (talk) 11:35, 18 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

ah now I see there used to be a "worldwide production" section which should be restored. Ovinr (talk) 11:40, 18 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

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