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The
difference between butter and margarine
Why
Butter is Better by Sally Fallon & Mary G. Enig, Ph.D
Butter is higher in saturated fats.
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 than margarine and it can enhance the flavours of other foods.
Butter has been around for centuries and revered by many cultures for its life
sustaining properties. Margarine has been around for less than 100 years.
Margarine ...
May contain trans
fats (check the labels -- manufacturers are now responding to the dangers of
trans fats and are beginning to eliminate them from the "mix") ...
What's the "mix"? It is claimed that margarine is an
emulsion made from natural vegetable oils and water to which nutrients like
Vitamin A, needed to sustain life, are added. --- If this is so why not
eat butter, a healthy form of saturated fat, which NATURALLY contains
nutrients needed to sustain life! See article Why
Butter is Better by Sally Fallon & Mary G. Enig, Ph.D and in particular
the paragraph entitled "Beyond Margarine". It pays to be
informed ...
Note: AND DON'T FORGET ... cooking with virgin coconut oil IS SAFE - IT
DOESN'T FORM TOXIC FREE RADICALS WHEN HEATED.