Butter vs. Margarine
 

Which is actually healthier for you and why? Always wondered.

Margarine is healthier...
But I prefer butter because it has more flavor... HOWEVER butter have low burning point than margarine...

butter def tastes better to me...but i suppose margarine is healthier

margarine is one step away from being plastic is what my chefs always told me in class

butter is always better =)

Butter contains one ingredient: CREAM. Sometimes they add salt.

Margarine is made from a slurry of disgusting augmented oils from plants that generally don't contain much oil. It was developed as a lubricant, but is "suitable for human consumption". Since it is made of "vegetable" oil (before being altered), it is marketed as health food. Stay far, far away from it whenever possible.

I gotta wonder, why is magerine free in movie theatres where they have the straws and napkins where as butter is behind the counter with additional surcharges...

let me rephrase it so you can understand

google it

:troll:

+1

Butter is healthier.

BuTTER...is better. Just don't eat a stick a day.

I.E. this guy:


As much as possible though, avoid margarine. Both are very unhealthy, but butter is the lesser of the two evils by a mile.

Unless you're keeping calories down, there's no other reason why you couldn't do that. It's all good, healthy, useful calories. Just a lot of them :)

There's nothing "evil" about butter. It's just cream. Good, healthy saturated fat. It will give you energy, increase your healthy cholesterol level. There's nothing bad about butter, there's everything bad about margarine.

Wait a minute. Hold the phone. Halt the horses. Delay the carousel. So you're saying that eating butter is not bad for you? Not in the least?

And I always thought margarine was better/healthier than butter

Good to know it isn't now!

if you're gonna be eating 2 things that are bad for you, might as well get the one that tastes better

Like those small servings when given free bread? na... only if you use it frequently it does...

Same here...esp with all the stuff they add into it like Omega-3/Calcium/whatever else

If that really is the case, then :fullofwin: coz I absolutely love butter. Haha but yeah I guess it's just a matter having too much of it = fattening. Too much of anything is generally bad, after all.



Have you guys heard the old joke about butter though? If not then

Butter is basically the fat extracted from milk. Is drinking milk considered unhealthy?

The issue with butter is fat. Fat has many more calories per gram than protein or carbohydrates. 1 gram of fat has more than TWICE the calories of 1 gram of protein or carbohydrates.

Eating fat doesn't make you fat. Eating too much makes you fat. Since fat is more calorie-dense, it's easier to eat too many calories with fattier foods.

See: http://vimeo.com/19725597

Butter, butter, butter, butter, butter.

wow.. i wish i was able to fail in this post, for all of you who chose margarine... wtf?

The margarine people have marketed it as the healthy choice and the education system and health care system have propagated that myth and failed us all.

:(

so you are telling me that you would think rat poison is good for you if it was fortified with omega's and vitmamins? extreme, yes, but margarine is synthetic. ask yourself if you would eat trans fat or olive oil. it is the same comparison. there are a lot of companies that say no trans fat on their margarine containers, but i would be very skeptical about what processing techniques/additives they add to make margarine, margarine.

margarine is nasty shit. i wont go near it

it's not even the same. Try baking with margarine.