I’m from a country where margarine and solid vegetable fats (shortening and vegetable ghee) are widely produced and consumed, children used to eat slices of bread with margarine outside and TV advertorials were bombarded with margarine commercials.
It’s said that there are only one molecule of difference between plastic and margarine, and no insects won’t settle on margarine when a piece of it are left outside, and solid vegetable fats are harmful for health.
What’s the truth about margarine and solid vegetable fats and the whole margarine vs. butter battle? Are the claims I wrote in the previous paragraph (plastic and no insects) any true? Are solid vegetable fats bad for health?
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TL;DR:
– The “one molecule away from plastic” thing is fatuous.
– Turning normal vegetable oil (unsaturated fats) into stuff that is solid at room temp (saturated fats) makes byproducts that are bad (trans fats).
– Saturated fats are worse for you than unsaturated.
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