Shea Butter Is Processed

[2007]

[Aajonus]

Shea butter is processed butter.

[Attendee]

They say it's natural.

[Aajonus]

It's all processed, completely processed.

[Attendee]

How do they process it?

[Aajonus]

Well, they usually pasteurize it and then they steam it in some circumstances and then they spin it to get the fluid out of it, so it will cake.

[Attendee]

They tell us it's just stirred in the hot sun in Africa. It's collected in Africa and stirred in the hot sun.

[Aajonus]

Yeah. Well, if you believe that, that's a good one, cuz it isn't, it. That's the way they used to make it. That's the old way of making it. But the butter, when you get shea butter like that, it is very foul smelling and tasting. It tastes like eating really ripe, strong Buffalo meat, and no I've never smelled any shea butter like that in this country, it's all highly processed.

[Attendee]

The natural one smells like you said.

[Aajonus]

The natural one smells foul. It almost smells like ozonated olive oil, but not putrid.