Margarine Losing It's Spreadability!
By JENNY ARCHER
@bookbar (1609)
Sudbury, England
January 29, 2016 4:06am CST
While Butter has been around for thousands of years, and enjoying a massive revival, after all the 'Scare' stories about it's health hazards, have been brought into question,.... Not so the magnificent hard sell of Margarine.
Before 1869, when a French chemist Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès–spurred on by a hefty financial prize offered by Napoleon,looking for a cheap way to feed his troops and the masses, came up with a spread made from beef tallow.
Mège-Mouriès then sold his patent to Jurgens, a Dutch butter-making company, which eventually became part of Unilever, which even today makes mountains of the stuff, probably with many more modified and cheaper ingredients, in it's chemical make-up, than plain Beef Tallow.
Margarine sales are now on a slippery slope,falling year on year by over 7% and rumours that Unilever have been unable to prop up their flagging Health Hazard in a box, are desperately trying to get out of the Marg. market, before the contraction becomes fatal to their company...never mind the consumers.
So if you don't want unhealthy Omega 6 oils,amongst other things,destroying all your healthy Omega 3's, not to mention your stomach linings,eat Butter and drink Full Fat Milk..as advised recently, in the British Medical Journal..Open Heart, and stay healthy!
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@ElizabethWallace (12074)
• United States
29 Jan 16
I stopped using margarine decades ago. I had to give up butter recently. I am lactose intolerant and butter sent me to the hospital. Yikes. Luckily, I am able to digest yogurt and most cheeses still.
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@bookbar (1609)
• Sudbury, England
29 Jan 16
@ElizabethWallace Know the feeling Elizabeth, as I too suffer multiple food intolerance, but there are some good Lactose Free butter spreads, strange that yoghurt and cheese are not effecting you... and they too are available LF nowadays.
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@bookbar (1609)
• Sudbury, England
1 Feb 16
@ElizabethWallace Lactose is a growing problem for many, but for me it isn't just Lactose but also Caseine in milk/dairy that creates problems and up to now no products without both....other than Coconut and Nut milks, which I really dislike.
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@ElizabethWallace (12074)
• United States
30 Jan 16
@bookbar Do you trust lactose free foods? I worry that they wouldn't work and I would end up sick as a dog.
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@bookbar (1609)
• Sudbury, England
29 Jan 16
@LadyDuck I too never used margarine, but then I never believe biased research from the medical prof. or the WHO all funded by whichever company are funding the pockets, and I only use milk in tea...my 'veggie hubby' calls it 'Cow's Pee' and has fruit and juice on his cereal...so other than sauces for veg. milk is a little used commodity in our lives.
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@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
29 Jan 16
I always have chosen butter but, very occasionally, try other spreads such as the ones made from olive oil. I haven't yet found anything which approaches butter in taste, however. Most margarines seem to me more suitable for packing axles and gearboxes than for spreading on bread.
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@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
30 Jan 16
@bookbar Almost any oil (including most of the ones we eat) can be used in a diesel engine, so I wouldn't worry about that too much. It's a bit of scaremongering which has little meaning.
I am not a chemist and get rather confused by the terms 'trans-fat' and 'hydrogenated oil' but I believe that it was both of these which were considered to be the main health problem with margarines and I understand that most margarine manufacturers now no longer use trans-fats or hydrogenated oils and are adding in Omega-3 fatty acids which are beneficial to the diet.
It certainly now looks as if the research which claimed that butter was unhealthy and led to heart disease was intentionally manipulated in order to promote margarine as a 'healthy alternative' but that now the reverse is thought to be true. Whether or not margarine is really as unhealthy as some people like to say it is (and I think that the major brands probably are not), I prefer the 'real thing' - i.e. butter - for its taste, even though I'm aware that butter is probably just as much 'processed' these days as most other foods.
@just4him (317250)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
29 Jan 16
Several years ago I heard about the hazards of eating margarine and how it can lead to cancer and you can trace it through your system for 30 days. Whereas butter doesn't do that and I switched immediately. I'm also drinking full fledged milk now as well. Breaking a leg can do that to you, I guess - make you change your milk consumption habits.
