Many of the ideas are that margarine, made from vegetable fats, is healthier than butter; This idea is not only wrong but putting it into practice may also mean removing the body from what it needs.
Let's go for order.
What is margarine?
Margarine was invented at the end of 1800 by a French pharmacist, Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès, in response to a request from then-emperor Napoleon III. Butter, at that time too expensive, needed to be replaced by something cheaper and easier to find.
The idea was to make vegetable oils, much cheaper than milk, and turn them to make them similar to butter through a process that is called hydrogenation which basically consists in hydrogen insufflation. This process, in addition to producing saturated fat, produces "trans" fat, which is very harmful to health.
What is butter?
The butter is basically the fat part of the milk separated from the lactone and condensed. There are several types of butter: centrifugal butter, butter of the outgrowth, zucchini butter and butter of whey.
For several years it has been indicated, as animal fat, as responsible for irreparable health damage.
In recent times he has been rehabilitated, thanks to the publication of "THE BIG FLAT SURPRISE" by American journalist Nina Teicholz. Recent studies (published by Harvard University, Cambridge and the University of California) have shown not only that butter is not bad but above all that it is rich in vitamins (A, D, K and E) and useful substances for example to the children.
“THE BIG FLAT SURPRISE”
In a 2015 interview, released to the journalist Manuela Mimosa Ravasio, for the magazine "GIOIA!", Teicholz states:
Yes, it's true. Butter was considered a malicious food simply because it contains saturated fats, and for 60 years, we believed that saturated fat was the cause of heart disease. Today we know, thanks to top team of scientists from Harvard, Cambridge and the University of California, Berkeley, that this correlation does not actually exist. Therefore, there is nothing wrong with eating butter. Conversely, butter is rich in vitamins and substances useful for example in children, so that in the early 1990s, many doctors advised him to cure illnesses and growth problems. As for vegetable oils, they were invented in the 1900s. They are highly unstable, and easily degraded into substances that can be harmful and inflammatory. There are numerous studies in the 1970s that show that when animal saturated fats were replaced by vegetable oils (soy milk, soybeans, soybeans and other soybeans / maize products), they had higher rates of cancer, Biliary calculations, violent deaths, suicides. It is worth pointing out that the vegetable oil industry has been the most influential body in the field of nutrition science for the last 50 years; Companies such as Monsanto, Cargill, ADM, Bungee, or Unilever led the course of nutrition science and are not interested in working to investigate the possible damage that comes from vegetable oils.
Basically, in the "war" between margarine and butter, between "synthetic" fat and "natural" fats, we in the ITALBUTTER know what to choose. And you?