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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To help with your chemistry –
Life LOVES combinations of oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon, which love to combine with each other and form chains. This is why you drink water, breath oxygen, eat sugar, and breathe out carbon dioxide for example.
To say that margarine is similar to plastic because it contains these elements is a soft lie. So is sugar. So are starches and complex carbohydrates. So is wood and so is cellulose. So is gasoline, diesel fuel and raw petroleum.
These compounds are made from the building blocks of life.
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