Whats the difference between butter and margarine?

Question

Is its chemical composition, or the purposes its used for? Or something else?

Answer 1

Butter is a dairy product made by churning fresh or fermented cream or milk. Butter consists of butterfat surrounding minuscule droplets consisting mostly of water and milk proteins. The most common form of butter is made from cows' milk, but can also be made from the milk of other mammals, including sheep, goats, buffalo, and yaks. Salt, flavorings, or preservatives are sometimes added to butter.

Margarine, as a generic term, can indicate any of a wide range of butter-substitutes. In many parts of the world, margarine has become the best-selling table spread, although butter and olive oil also command large market shares. Margarine is an ingredient in the preparation of many other foods. In many regions people commonly refer to margarine as butter in informal speech, but (at least in the United States) laws forbid food packaging to refer to margarine as "butter".

Answer 2

Butter is something you'd put on toast. Margarine is something you would use when making cakes or cookies or basicaly cooking. Margarine always turns out best in recipes. But butter tastes nice on toast and corn and all that other stuff. So basicaly butter is a coating and margarine is a core ingredient. Hope that helped!

Answer 3

Mainly Butter is a Dairy product. Margarine is a shortening animal or vegetable in origin. They are most commonly interchangeable margarine is almost cheaper. Butter is the preferred product in finer food preparations. It has a better taste and lower melting point. They are equivalent in caloric value.

Answer 4

Most of these answers tells you why butter and margarine are different in terms of how they are made and what of, but there is another significant difference: taste! Butter tastes much better that any brand of margarine.

Answer 5

Butter is made out of cream, Experiment: Buy a pint of cream, and shake it for a really long time, (this is fun if you get the whole family involved) It will get thicker and thicker, it will first turn into whipped cream and then into butter. If you want whipped cream, add lots of sugar before you shake it, and obviously stop shaking when it gets to the consistency of whipped cream. and Add salt if you want butter. when you get done shaking it, you will have clumps of butter mixed with a cloudy liquid substance, just pour the liquid out. Note this process is alot faster if you use a mixer. Margarine is made from vegetable oil.

Answer 6

One's from Vegetable oil - Margarine and the other - butter- is from milk.

Answer 7

Margarine is 1 chemical away from being called plastic!!!

Answer 8

well i think it the purpose that it is used for like butter is normally used for daily uses like sandwitches and muffin ect... and margarine is used for cooking and can also be melted and used for a cooking spray but you can use butter in stead of margarine but it is pretty grose visabersa

Answer 9

Butter is churned cream. Whip heavy cream long enough and you'll get butter.

Margarine is hydrogenated vegetable oil (shortening) with butter flavoring in it and was originally developed as a low-fat alternative to butter.

Answer 10

.Butter is a natural product, the body can recognise it ,margarine is a man made product which the body has a problem identifying