is margarine a dairy product?

Answer 1

No its a substitute. Its made from vegetable oils where butter is made from milk. It is found with diary produce in a supermarket.

Answer 2

Margarine is a made of vegetable fat - not an animal product. There is a lot of controversy these days over margarine, because it is highly processed and can contain transfat (but even the ones NOT containing transfat are highly processed).

Answer 3

this should tell you what you want to know.

Margarine has a long and sometimes confusing history. Its name originates with the discovery by Michel Eugène Chevreul in 1813 of "margaric acid" (itself named after the pearly deposits of the fatty acid from Greek margaron, meaning "a pearl-oyster" or "a pearl"). Scientists at the time regarded margaric acid, like oleic acid and stearic acid, as one of the three fatty acids which, in combination, formed most animal fats. In 1853 the German structural chemist Wilhelm Heinrich Heintz analyzed margaric acid as simply a combination of stearic acid and of the previously unknown palmitic acid.[citation needed]

In 1869 Emperor Louis Napoleon III of France offered a prize to anyone who could make a satisfactory substitute for butter, suitable for use by the armed forces and the lower classes.[1] French chemist Hippolyte Mège-Mouriés invented a substance he called oleomargarine, the name of which became shortened to the trade name "Margarine". Margarine now refers generically to any of a range of broadly similar edible oils. The name oleomargarine is sometimes abbrieviated to oleo.

Manufacturers produced oleomargarine by taking clarified vegetable fat, extracting the liquid portion under pressure, and then allowing it to solidify. When combined with butyrin and water, it made a cheap and more-or-less palatable butter-substitute. Sold as Margarine or under any of a host of other trade names, butter-substitutes soon became a substantial market segment — but too late to help Mège-Mouriés: although he expanded his initial manufacturing operation from France to the United States in 1873, he had little commercial success. By the end of the decade both the old world and the new could buy artificial butters.[citation needed]

From that time on, two main trends would dominate the margarine industry: on one hand a series of refinements and improvements to the product and its manufacture, and on the other a long and bitter struggle with the dairy industry, which defended itself from the margarine industry with vigor. As early as 1877 the first U.S. states had passed laws to restrict the sale and labelling of margarine. By the mid-1880s the United States federal government had introduced a tax of two cents per pound, and devotees needed an expensive license to make or sell the product. Individual states began to require the clear labelling of margarine, banning passing it off as real butter.[citation needed]

Answer 4

Margarine is an abomination, it's disgusting, a collection of chemicals and fats masquerading as a dairy product. keep it real, use real Butter, if worried about the fat content, use it in moderation.

Answer 5

It depends on the product but if it is flora or something like it will contain buttermilk which is a dairy product as it is the fluid left after churning butter

Answer 6

As has already been said it is vegetable oil. A little fun from my childhood. When my mom came home from shopping and had the bag of the white oleomargarine. Yes, it came in a bag and was white. My brother and i would fight over who got to break the little red bead in the bag and squeeze the bag to make it yellow. This was in the late forties, the time of the ice box and the ice man, like, no refrigerators.

Answer 7

it will certainly be in the dairy section but i really dont think so, its full of chemicals, but some suggest its good for baking.

edit; i think its classed as dairy but its only a substitute for our "dairy free" friends.

Answer 8

No, It is hydrogenated vegetable oil, meaning that the maker takes vegetable oil, and adds molecules of hydrogen to give it the texture of butter.

Answer 9

no, It's a few elements short of being plastic, Why this product is on the market is beyond me, it was originally used to fatten up turkey's, but it was killing them, so they added yellow coloring and got FDA approval for human consumption instead....read it on snopes.com

Answer 10

No, it's made from vegetable oil.