Tips for storing ghee:
Tightly wrapped, ghee can be kept at room tempreture for up to one monght, refrigerated up to 6 months and frozen up to a year.
Don’t ladle out the ghee with a wet spoon or allow any water to get into the container, as this will create conditions for bacteria to grow and spoil the ghee.
Benefits of Homemade Ghee:
Store bought ghee can be expensive and sometimes don't smell good. Homemade ghee is inexpensive, better tasting and smelling.
Eventhogh ghee has long shelf life, we don't really know when store bought ghee was made. Homemade ghee is fresh.
It's pure. Ayurveda considers ghee to be one of the most health enhancing of all foods. so if you using for ayurveda purpose, better to use pure and fresh to get most benefits out of it.
Ghee for healing: It makes a wonderful body oil for massage and can serve as a base for herbal ointments (for burns, skin rashes, etc.) Ghee is a digestive. It helps to improve absorption and assimilation. Persons who already have high cholesterol or suffer from obesity should be cautious in using ghee.
We all need healthy fats in our diet and Ghee is an easily digestible source of saturated fat that contains no trans fats or hydrogenated fats. Ghee, however, is low in the essential omega 3 fatty acids you need for good brain health so supplementation with omega 3's is a needed for a healthy diet.
Ghee is salt and lactose free so it is beneficial for those who can't drink milk or eat cheese.
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