what is the difference between butter and margarine?
2006-09-28 06:14:09 · 9 answers · asked by nidia r 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
Butter is natural and margarine is man made there for butter is better for you because it is the real deal.
2006-09-28 06:17:18 · answer #1 · answered by ? 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Butter is condensed and solidified cream - basically milkfat. It is made through a process of straining milk, churning, straining, drying, and maybe a little cooking. Margarine is synthetic. One of the prime ingredients is partially hydrogenated vegetable oil.
First of all, butter, is made from cream, produced by cows, and by law in this country, has a butterfat content of at least 80%. There are some premium butters on the market with 81% or 82% butterfat. Water, milk solids, and — often — salt make up the rest. The amount of salt in salted butter ranges from 1.5% to 3%.
Margarine is made from a vegetable oil, although when it was developed in 1869 by Hippolyte Mèges-Mouriés in France, it was based on beef fat (suet) flavored with milk. Vegetable oils are liquid at room temperature, but a process called hydrogenation was developed in the early 1900s that makes them solid at room temperature. Most margarine today is made with corn oil or soybean oil.
2006-09-28 06:15:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Butter is a natural product made from milk. Margarine is a man made product made from oil.
2006-09-28 06:15:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Butter is a dairy product from cow's milk. Margaine is man-made grease that looks like butter. Usually hydrogenated vegetable oil.
2006-09-28 06:16:04 · answer #4 · answered by slandguy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
butter is the fatty portion of milk, separating as a soft whitish or yellowish solid when milk or cream is agitated or churned.
Margarine is a butterlike product made of refined vegetable oils, sometimes blended with animal fats, and emulsified, usually with water or milk.
2006-09-28 06:17:32 · answer #5 · answered by cinncinn95 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
margerine is fake butter butter is real stuff,my choice butter!
2006-09-28 07:48:19 · answer #6 · answered by artcherman 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
butter is animal fat, margarine is vegetable fat.
2006-09-28 06:22:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
all i know is that butter is better for you than margerine. Margerine has more artificial ingredients and trans fat?
2006-09-28 06:16:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
i dunno...but butter taste so much better
2006-09-28 06:21:27 · answer #9 · answered by zooey 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋