Pass The Butter

naughtydoguk
naughtydoguk Posts: 120
edited September 24 in Food and Nutrition
This is interesting. .. .



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 colouring and sold it to people to use in place of butter.. How do you like it? They have come out with some clever new flavourings....



DO YOU KNOW.. The difference between margarine and butter?

Read on to the end...gets very interesting!

Both have the same amount of calories.

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 Study.

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 where margarine has been around for less than 100 years.



And now, for Margarine..

Very High in Trans fatty acids.

Triples risk of coronary heart disease ...

Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) and lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol)

Increases the risk of cancers up to five times..

Lowers quality of breast milk.

Decreases immune response.

Decreases insulin response.


And here's the most disturbing fact.... HERE IS THE PART THAT IS VERY INTERESTING!



Margarine is but ONE MOLECULEaway from being PLASTIC...and shares 27 ingredients with PAINT



These facts alone were enough to have me avoiding margarine for life and anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is added, changing the molecular structure of the substance).



You can try this yourself:



Purchase 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?

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  • littlelionesslove
    littlelionesslove Posts: 80
    Margarine is GROSS!! I was never brought up to have margarine over butter. One molecule away from plastic?? I believe it! Cool info, thanks!
  • MissJennaBelle
    MissJennaBelle Posts: 175
    I've always preferred butter on my toast and I have stuck to butter but occasionally think I should really be eating margarine because it has the reputation of “being better for you”. Thanks for this!
  • srahill3
    srahill3 Posts: 6
    Wow! That's incredible! I already use butter but I have some of the other stuff in my fridge... which is getting thrown out at the first opportunity! I didn't know it was THAT bad!
  • MysticMaiden22
    MysticMaiden22 Posts: 324 Member
    Disgusting! I never use tubs of margarine but have the guilty pleasure of the "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" Spray in my fridge.

    Guess I'll be throwing that crap in the garbage.
  • jclji4
    jclji4 Posts: 118 Member
    Thanks for the info...will pass it on to my family members who love margarine. I really don't use margarine or butter much.
  • jclji4
    jclji4 Posts: 118 Member
    Hope you don't mind, I'm going to share this with another site that I frequent. I think they should know this.
  • Hearts_2015
    Hearts_2015 Posts: 12,032 Member
    My vote is for butter, butter, butter, in small amounts of course, beats manufactured :sick: margarines any day!

    Thanks for taking time to share the info on Butter vs. plastic. :laugh: :noway:
  • JeninBelgium
    JeninBelgium Posts: 804 Member
    First let me tell you that I am a big fan of butter, I have made it at home before, I buy it fresh from our local dairy farm and believe that butter from northern france with sea salt is one of the loveliests tastes. I very rarely have margarine in my house.

    That being said, we did learn about margarine somewhat in school so I knew that some of the claims in your posting are simply false (such as it's origins and the story behind it's colour) thus I "SNOPES"ed margarine and you may wish to do the same to sort out the truths from the myths of your posting.

    http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/butter.asp
  • Hearts_2015
    Hearts_2015 Posts: 12,032 Member
    Could you share the link where you found this, I always like to share that when I pass along an article to others. Thank you!:flowerforyou:

    EDITED: awww, never mind I found it on Snopes.com, those of you that were duped might want read the real deal on the above as it's not completely true, in fact, a fair bit of it isn't!:noway:
  • Hearts_2015
    Hearts_2015 Posts: 12,032 Member
    First let me tell you that I am a big fan of butter, I have made it at home before, I buy it fresh from our local dairy farm and believe that butter from northern france with sea salt is one of the loveliests tastes. I very rarely have margarine in my house.

    That being said, we did learn about margarine somewhat in school so I knew that some of the claims in your posting are simply false (such as it's origins and the story behind it's colour) thus I "SNOPES"ed margarine and you may wish to do the same to sort out the truths from the myths of your posting.

    http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/butter.asp
    hmmm, interesting!
  • EmilyJ1979
    EmilyJ1979 Posts: 144 Member
    Thanks for enlightening me!
  • DLJ1960
    DLJ1960 Posts: 3 Member
    Great Food For Thought! Thanks for sharing that!! :) PLEASE PASS THE BUTTER!:laugh:
  • kimwig
    kimwig Posts: 164
    Actually margarine was first created in France as part of a competition by Emperor Napoleon to find a butter substitute for the armed forces. The patent for it was sold by the inventor to the Dutch company known as Unilever.
    Butter and margarine are both water in fat emulsions.
  • dalbers
    dalbers Posts: 61
    I use very little but when I do, its always real butter.

    Really despite margarine, it is a total con job on the masses.
  • aeevr
    aeevr Posts: 34
    I love butter and think margarine is poison.
    This article, though, is a total crock.
    I do not refrigerate butter.
    It does not rot or get eaten by fruit flies either.
    Fruit flies eat fruit... not fat.
    Duh.
  • 35again
    35again Posts: 46 Member
    You can try this yourself:

    Purchase 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?

    Ok, even if this info about margarine isn't true... you can do that experiment with McDonald's food and it will hold true. Yum, huh?
  • cmrich0511
    cmrich0511 Posts: 31
    First thought after reading this? ::GAG::

    I'm a big time butter lover. I'm southern, so I'm talkin' Paula Deen butter lover lol. But I rarely cook with it, unless I'm baking something super special, but now I think I will go back to using only real butter. To hell with the other crap... I generally don't use it for myself, but no sense in feeding my kids liquid-Tupperware topped toast :)
  • hunkahunka
    hunkahunka Posts: 27
    Oh geeze! Is " I can't believe it's not butter" the same thing? I guess the name tells it! Going right in the garbage right now!!! Thanks NaughtyDog!:laugh:
  • BryanAir
    BryanAir Posts: 434
    You can try this yourself:

    Purchase 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?

    Ok, even if this info about margarine isn't true... you can do that experiment with McDonald's food and it will hold true. Yum, huh?

    Actually, if you subject an apple to the exact same conditions as the McDonald's food "experiment" it will also not rot or mold
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