Paula Clark noted that ghee is on the Food Allergy Network list as dairy.
This is true that is is on their list. And I very much agree. Beware anyone
with severe milk allergies, Don't use it as the Network states that there
is milk protein in ghee.

Ghee is often made by taking butter,bringing it to a rolling boil where it
makes froth on the top and then skimming off the froth until what you have
left is clear. If you have a child that is allergic to dairy, I wouldn't
use it.

I would like to note that I have used ghee at home with my son (now 6 1/2)
since he started on solids at 6 months. He gets hives with dairy and has
never had a problem with ghee. In fact, many times I have done my own skin
test on him. I rub ghee on one cheek and butter on the other. Sure enough
the butter side breaks out and no reaction on the ghee side.

I have always made my own ghee from a chemists recipe and am very careful
to boil it until 245 degrees until all the water is boiled off and then all
the milk solids are coagulated. I do not "skim off the froth." I FILTER it
through a cloth.

Here is what the chemist found through research of food scientists to be
the chemical composition of ghee.

Triglycerides 98%
Steroids        0.5%
Fatty Acids     0.4%
Water   0.3%
Others  0.8%

"Others includes: phospholipids, fat soluble vitamins A&E, carotenes (only
in cows ghee), volatile & non-volatile ketones and aldehydes, and traces of
charred casein, calcium, phosphorus, etc.

So there is charred casein in well filtered ghee.

Also, our son is sensitive to casein When he was 2 we gave him some
powdered soy drink called Better Than Milk (made in the US by Sovex) which
said non-dairy, lactose free. We tried a small amount on him and no
reaction. The next day gave him more and his face blew up. It had sodium
caseinate in it and I didn't realize the caseinate connectin to dairy. The
company refunded my money and wrote a letter of apology but they still put
it in their flavored versions although not in their plain version.


Rachele Shaw