What's the difference between butter and margarine?

Question

They look very similiar if not identical. They taste very similar if not identical. They feel very similiar if not identical.

Answer 1

Butter is made from cream, margarine is hydrogenated vegetable oil. Hydrogenation adds an extra hydrogen atom to the oil, which causes it to thicken, the process turns it black, it is then bleached to be white and then colouring is added to it so that it looks like butter! This procedure is obviously unhealthy, there are certain brands of margarine that are unhydrogenated, that for years we thought were better for you then butter or hydrogenated oils, however it turns out that the process that solidifies the oil is actually worse for you then the hydrogenation process. Hope this answers your question!

Answer 2

Difference Between Butter And Margarine

Answer 3

Butter may be more expensive than margarine,
but...........The
difference between margarine and butter?

Both have the same amount of calories

Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8
grams compared
to 5 grams.

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
only because they are added!

Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can
enhance the
flavors of other foods.

Butter has been around for centuries where margarine
has been
around for less then 100 years

Now for Margarine... very high in Trans Fatty Acids

Triple risk of Coronary Heart Disease

Increases total and LDL ( this is the bad
cholesterol) Lowers
HDL cholesterol

* and this is the good one Increases the risk of
cancers by up
to five fold.

Lowers quality of breast milk. Decreases immune
response.
Decreases insulin response.

And here is the most disturbing fact.... Margarine
is but ONE
MOLECULE from being PLASTIC...

( this fact alone was 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 food )


YOU can try this yourself, purchase a tub of
margarine and leave
it in your garage or shaded area, within a couple of
days you
will note 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, 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?

Answer 4

Butter is a real food, and therefore better for you.

Margarine is made with hydrogenated oils, and that's the worst kind.

Julia Child says she only serves margarine to her enemies.
--quote stolen from the article below
very good paper

Answer 5

I was growed up on a farm and know the difference between butter and oily old margarine. If my grocery store doesn't have butter, I go somewhere else.

Answer 6

Ummm Parkay. Butter. Sorry. Butter is made from dairy ie cows, and margarine is from oils...usually plant oils. We NOW tend to think butter is actually better for the body after all, due to all the things in margarine we can't properly digest and eliminate.

Answer 7

Margarine or butter?

If you answered "butter," I've got some information that will make you glad you did.

Last week an HSI member sent me an e-mail that had been forwarded multiple times, but appears to have originated from L. EugeneArnold, M.Ed., M.D.; a Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Ohio State University. Here's what Dr. Arnold writes:

"Do you know the difference between margarine and butter?

a. Both have the same amount of calories.
b. Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams compared to 5 grams.
c. Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over eating the same amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard Medical Study.
d. Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other foods.
e. Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few only because they are added!
f. For most people, butter tastes better than margarine and it can enhance the flavors of other foods. (The best flavor claim margarine can make in ads is that it tastes the same as butter.) g. Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around for less than 100 years.

"And now, for Margarine...

a. Very high in trans fatty acids.
b. Triple risk of coronary heart disease.
c. Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) d. Lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol).
e. Increases the risk of cancers by up to five fold.
f. Lowers quality of breast milk.
g. Decreases immune response.
h. Decreases insulin response. "And here is the part that is very interesting! Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC.
This fact alone was 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 in your garage or shaded area. Within a couple of days you will note 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. Nothing will grow on it - not even those teeny weeny microorganisms will not find a home to grow. Why? Because it is nearly plastic. Would you melt your Tupperware and spread that on your toast?

"Share This With Your Friends - (Butter them up.)

"Additional info: Children who eat butter or drink whole milk with butterfat have better resistance to infection.

"P.S. This was not sponsored by the dairy industry."

I've heard some of these facts before, but some of them were new to me, so I asked HSI Panelist Allan Spreen, M.D., for his take on the list, and he didn't hesitate: "Absolutely true. The guy's read my book. In it, I call margarine 'plastic butter.' It's very, very bad stuff. I cheat and have to drink city water sometimes. But I try never to do that with margarine."
The book that Dr. Spreen refers to is his "Nutritionally Incorrect: Why the American Diet is Dangerous and How to Defend Yourself" (Woodland Publishing).

Plastic butter! Will you ever go within ten feet of margarine again?

Answer 8

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What's the difference between butter and margarine?
They look very similiar if not identical. They taste very similar if not identical. They feel very similiar if not identical.

Answer 9

Butter is made from cream, margarine is made from oil. Butter tastes better to me and I like using it for cooking.

Answer 10

I love butter, hate margarine. Margarine makes my tummy ouchy, butter makes me feel okay, no ouchies or whatever.