im having a little debate here with my freind, we need some facts
2007-06-26 07:47:00 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
The Anchor sign on Britain's favourite butter
is the anchor that tells you its the best,
if you like your bread and butter,
there,s no other name you,ll utter
cos Britain's favourite butter has the anchor sign
2007-06-26 07:53:13 · answer #1 · answered by havanadig 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
If cholesterol is not an issue, then eat the butter. You'll get a bit of vitamin D and calcium. Plus there aren't chemicals in butter, except sometimes annato for colour...and even that's made from annato seed extract, so you're probably getting a trace of beneficial flavanoids in that too. Marg is just grease with chemical flavouring and preservatives. And until just recently was made by hygrogenating the oils and producing harmful trans-fat.
Skipping both is best. But for the lesser of two evils. I would use butter myself in moderation.
2007-06-26 15:01:05 · answer #2 · answered by ✿Donna❀ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Real butter.
Margarine and butter are nutritionally equal; they're an emulsion of 80% fat and 20% aqueous phase. The clever idea behind "I can't believe it's not butter" was to use buttermilk for the aquaeous phase, and it made a better-tasting margarine.
I helped develop that product when I worked at Central Soya. At the time, they owned Mrs. Filbert's, the company which originally manufactured and marketed the product.
However, margarines are made with oil that's been hydrogenated enough that it is solid at room temperature, so it remains in stick form, and liquid slightly below body temperature, so that you don't get a waxy mouth-feel. Hydrogenating vegetable oils produces trans fat.
At the time we developed "I can't believe it's not butter" in the early 1980s, we knew about trans fats, and we were trying to figure out a way to hydrogenate soy oil without producing trans fats. We couldn't, though, so we continued to make the best soy oil margarines we knew how to make. Hey, with a name like "Central Soya", you expect them to make margarines using tropical oils, which have their own issues as far as healthfulness?
ICBINB is cheaper than butter, it holds its shape better than butter at room temperature, it doesn't go rancid as quickly as butter, and it tastes better than most other margarines. Unfortunately, it's more likely to kill you. Can't have everything, now, can you?
2007-06-26 15:08:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Real butter is healthier. margerine is a man made chemical process that uses nickle as a catalyst. It becomes a heavy mettal in the body that act like a poison. The other thing is, that the more ingredients there are, the more likely it is to be unhealthy for anybody. Cows make it best.
2007-06-26 14:55:58 · answer #4 · answered by Duesenburg M 1 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Real butter is full of cholesterol and saturated fat, both bad for you. Your safest spread is the Becel variety of margarine which is made from non-hydrogenated vegetable oils (sunflower and canola), has no trans fat or cholesterol, is low in saturated fat (5% of daily limit), and contains vitamins A, D, and E. Or you can buy the Safeway "Lifestyle" margarine with the identical formula.
Don't pay any attention to ignorant people who come up with the statement that margarine is one step away from plastic. Almost all of the chemical components of the food we eat, natural or otherwise, are one step away from some other chemical which is of no use to us. That's the nature of chemistry. The ingredients of margarine all come from natural sources to begin with, and are perfectly healthy.
2007-06-26 14:56:24 · answer #5 · answered by TitoBob 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Real butter. Any food closest to its natural state will always be healthier than one that is loaded with chemicals, preservatives and hydrogenated fats.
2007-06-26 14:51:46 · answer #6 · answered by greenmom 1 · 4⤊ 1⤋
REAL butter is ALWAYS better - the key is in moderation. Margarine is one molecule off from being plastic..and obviously our bodies have no idea how to process it. Stick with real butter!
2007-06-26 14:55:31 · answer #7 · answered by curious 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Real butter - all that horrid yellow stuff is just one step chemically away from being plastic. Disgusting stuff!
2007-06-26 14:49:48 · answer #8 · answered by Sal*UK 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
real butter..."I Can't Believe It's Not Butter", is just a hoax when it comes to real.
2007-06-26 14:55:37 · answer #9 · answered by hαnnεrrr* 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
you think "I Can't believe it's full of CHEMICALS" is better then REAL BUTTER? OOOOOOOOOOOOOH please!!!!
what do we have here someone who MAKES the "I can't believe it's not butter" giving us BAD VOTES???
2007-06-26 14:54:37 · answer #10 · answered by LittleBarb 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋