butter vs. margarine health issuse?

Answer 1

Butter, all the way!!!

Answer 2

hi rb,
i just read on the net last week, in news, about which is better for you. the answer was butter, even though it has a bit more fat in it. margarine on the other hand has some cream in it and plastic materials. the article read you could put an open tub of margarine in your garage and nothing will go to it to eat it.. no bacteria will grow on it. i went to strictly butter after that.
i hope this helped. :)

Answer 3

The controversy over butter and margarine regarding which should be used as a spread or for cooking rests on how much cholesterol, saturated fats, and trans fatty acids each has.

Butterfat contains 2-5% trans fatty acids (mainly C18:1w7), and butter has high levels of cholesterol and saturated fat. The FDA states that healthy people should not consume more than 200mg of cholesterol each day. Butter contains 33mg of cholesterol in each tablespoon. A healthy range of saturated fat intake is 10-15g per day.[citation needed] One tablespoon of butter contains over 7g of saturated fat. For this reason, some people recommend that you should limit butter in your diet.[citation needed] This formula is called into question when foods that are very low in saturated fat, yet high in cholesterol, like shrimp, are factored into the equation. Studies have shown that actual cholesterol consumption is not the direct cause of high cholesterol, rather it is saturated fat consumption.[citation needed]

Vegetable shortenings do not contain any cholesterol and have only 3g of saturated fat per tablespoon. However, they are high in transfatty acids.

Margarine contains no cholesterol and has low levels of saturated fat, but some products have high trans fat levels. Stick margarine contains the most trans fat; tub or liquid margarine has about two-thirds less. Trans-fat-free varieties of margarine in a tub form are available, however as noted above even products legally labelled as containing "zero grams" of trans fat may still contain this substance.

Answer 4

hi there,
margarine is much better for you and now in coles there is a margarine that is 99%trans fat free and it is the same cost as your coles brand so go try it and i know for a fact the margarine is better than butter thnks bye

Answer 5

butter has no trans fatty acids so it is a better choice. it's all I've ever used, never liked margarine