Butter vs. margarine (I)
butter or margarine? the eternal question which is better?
Nobody can deny that margarine is cheap and easy to spread and that the butter has better fame and a characteristic flavour. The first is obtained from various vegetable oils, while the second exclusively from milk or cream obtained of the fights, but which is healthier?
A study of the EROSKI-CONSUMER magazine them has been tested and the results were striking, specially for the advocates of the natural, with the elaborate: for normal consumption the margarine is healthier. how is it possible? apparently margarines have a fat percentage much lower on average in comparison with the butter, while the Ligeresa and Artúa marks are 40% and 57% respectively, the butter reaches 83%. And that without taking into account that the margarine have less saturated fat (harmful to the heart), barely 30%, compared to 70% of the butter, margarine difference, if they have cholesterol (250 mg / 100 g).
This makes by every 100 g take margarine, involving 500-550 Kcal and the butters 748 Kcal. This has to do the amount of water that have both, margarine has almost a half (44%) is water and butter only 15%. If the butter has no additives and its salt amount is ten times smaller than the margarine, although in both cases is really low.
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