Malaysians can’t seem to get enough of butter

CONSIDER this — if a 1kg butter cake is made up of 11% butter and 45 jam tarts are going to require an entire block of butter, just how much of this rich, creamy spread can we consume as a nation?

According to figures from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the Food and Agriculture Organization for Malaysia, the highest consumption per head was recorded in 1989 at 0.73kg — about three blocks of butter.