Nutritional breakdown of butter. The better fed that cows are, the healthier their butter should be. One tablespoon of butter contains 100 calories, 12 grams of fat, 7 grams of saturated fat, 0.5 grams of trans fat, 31 mg of cholesterol, 0 grams of carbohydrates, and 0 grams of sugar. Butter is made of simply pasteurized cream.
A multitude of genes you have inherited from your parents are involved with cholesterol metabolism. A defect, or mutation, in any of the genes that regulate cholesterol production, transport and utilization in your body can affect blood cholesterol.
1 Dietary cholesterol and fatty acids are absorbed. 2  Triglycerides are formed in the intestinal cell from free fatty acids and glycerol and cholesterol is esterified. 3  Triglycerides and cholesterol combine to form chylomicrons. 4  Chylomicrons enter the circulation and travel to peripheral sites. VLDL is formed in the liver from triglycerides and cholesterol esters. 2  These can be hydrolyzed by lipoprotein lipase to form IDL or VLDL remnants. 3  VLDL remnants are cleared from the circulation or incorporated into LDL. 4  LDL particles contain a core of cholesterol esters and a smaller amount of triglyceride.