Butter - Yun!!

 3/2/2020

Topic sounds like fun. Research shows that margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys. When it killed the turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the research wanted a payback so they put their heads together to figure out what to do with this product to get their money back.  It was a white substance with no food appeal so they added the yellow coloring and sold it to people to use in place of butter. How do you like it? They have come out with some clever new flavorings.

Do you know, the difference between margarine and butter? Both products have the same amount of calories.

Some unknown facts:

Did you know that butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams; compared to 5 grams for margarine.

Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over eating the same amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard Medical

Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other foods.Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few and only because they are added!
 

Butter tastes much better (of course it does) than margarine and it can enhance the flavors of other foods. It has been around for centuries where margarine has been around for less than 100 years.

Margarine is very high in trans fatty acids, and triples the risk of   coronary heart disease. Cancers up to five times, and decreases immune and insulin response.

And the most disturbing fact, is that margarine is

ONE molecule away from being PLASTIC, and shares 27 ingredients with PAINT. (that's very disturbing to me).

Open a tub of margarine and leave it open in your garage or shaded area. Within a couple of days you will notice a couple of things:  no flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it (that should tell you something). It does not rot or smell differently because it has no nutritional value ; nothing will grow on it. Even those teeny weeny microorganisms will not a find a home to grow. Why? Because it is nearly plastic  Would you melt your Tupperware and spread that on your toast? I think not.Makes me think of Twinkies

Here's an example of butter in a container. Both of these "butters" were a favorite of Mom. 

 

 

Years ago, Jeff and I decided that since butter tasted better, why buy the fake stuff?

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