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    Farm Name Pure Indian Foods
    Rating (4)          Pure Indian Foods

    Location Lawrenceville, NJ
    Products Ghee
    Market Area Nationwide
    Web Site www.pureindianfoods.com

    A family with a long heritage of producing Ghee in India is now buying butter made with milk from small, grass-based family farmers here in the US. This appears to be a wonderful partnership and a product that allows cooking with butter at higher temperatures. They write:

    Pure Indian Foods Ghee We are a small family-owned business that takes pride in making an exceptional quality grass-fed and certified organic Ghee. Golden colored Ghee is prepared by melting and simmering butter until all the water evaporates and the milk solids settle at the bottom. The remaining butter oil is very stable, giving it a high smoke point which makes it an excellent choice for deep fat frying, baking and sautéing. Because of the low moisture content, it can be stored without refrigeration for 2-3 months. Many people find our ghee, with its rich, nutty flavor, to be tastier than butter.

    We use butter made only in Springtime through the Fall, when the cows are actually out on the pasture eating fresh green grass. We make our ghee only on the waxing or full moon days which are auspicious in the ancient Vedic system. Our family has been in the ghee business in India for 5 generations, since 1889, and we are proudly continuing that tradition.

     

    Criteria Points Comments
    Ownership Structure 80 Family Business
    Milk Supply 70 Milk of Integrity
    Disclosure of Information for Verification 100 Full and Open Disclosure
    Certifier farms 100 Most PCO
    Certifier processing 100 NJDA
    Cows on pasture time/acreage provided 100 Excellent Pasture Compliance
    Health and longevity of cows 100 Very Low Cull Rate
    Replacement animals only from organic farms 100 Closed Herds
    Antibiotics used on young cattle 100 Never
    Reproductive hormones used 100 Never
    Farm support oversight 90 All Dairies visited regularly by staff
    Outside dairy ingredients purchased 100 None
    TOTAL SCORE 1140 FOUR COWS -