What Is Gold-Infused Ghee And Is A Jar Worth Its Weight?

One of the most beautiful aspects of organic ghee is that as long as it is clarified butter, there are so many ways that it can be made, modified and added to, using ingredients such as turmeric to add an incredibly unique infusion.

However, whilst a jar of turmeric-infused clarified butter is the true Golden Ghee, there is a rather unusual recipe going around that claims to be gold-infused.

Gold-infused ghee, also known as Swarna Bhasma, is exactly what the name suggests; it is ghee made by adding a 24-carat gold bar to the typical melting pot and mixing the two together.

A lot has been said about gold-infused ghee, largely because of the sheer audacity of literally adding gold to the golden mixture, and because of this there is a wide range of claims being made about what it can do for people, but is a jar actually worth its weight in gold?

Outside of the spectacle and the celebrity endorsements in India, gold-infused ghee does not provide any nutritional or taste benefits compared to any other ghee.

Edible gold has been a popular trend in luxury food for years,  with gold leaf being wrapped around steak, chicken wings and all sorts of foods in an attempt to justify their somewhat outlandish prices.

However, ultimately gold does not taste of anything, and chances are if you did a blind taste test of ghee and gold-infused ghee you would struggle to find any real differences between the two.

From a nutritional standpoint, it has no tangible additional benefits relative to conventional ghee, and any claims beyond that are to be taken with the same degree of suspicion any other unsubstantiated claims should have.

Ultimately, ghee is about the clarified butter and the technique to produce it, and this will make for a far better result than adding a bar of gold.