A glimpse of butter!
Apparently, butter has been known for a long time even before margarine was made, Healthy Friend! Most butter is made from cow's milk fat, although it can also be made from other animal milk. Making butter is relatively easy. Healthy Friends. The manufacturing process is to stir until the fat molecules stick together and eventually become solids. You can definitely make your own at home right?
But, excessive consumption of butter or butter can have an impact on our health, you know, Healthy Friend! This is caused by saturated fat ( saturated fat) in it. Excessive consumption of saturated fat can cause health problems such as obesity, an increase in LDL (bad cholesterol), and its relation to the risk of heart disease ... Very dangerous yes!
A glimpse of margarine!
From this fact, the experts finally created margarine, a new product that was considered better. How to make magarin not as easy as butter because it takes additional solutions to improve the quality of butter equivalent, Healthy Friend! In addition, there is also a hydrogenation process for compacting it because, as we know, vegetable oil is liquid at room temperature.
Some studies reveal that margarine can not be a negative impact on health. This happens because margarine also contains trans fat due to the manufacturing process (hydrogenation).
Just like saturated fat, trans fat can increase LDL (bad cholesterol) and decrease HDL (good cholesterol), Healthy Friend!
Then what is better?
Lisa Moscovitz, RD., An expert and CEO of the NY Nutrition group gave the answer. When it comes to butter or margarine, the correct question is not which is healthier, but which has fewer adverse effects if consumed. Yep, in this case, butter has fewer adverse effects because margarine contains trans fat that appears during hydrogenation. But, there are also tablets that are free of trans fat. On the other hand, margarine has more unsaturated fat than butter, and that's good, Healthy Friend!
Healthy friends still can not avoid the consumption of butter and margarine?
The following tips can make it easier for you to choose the best butter or margarine! Listen!
Yep, look for margarine which has a trans fat of 0 grams.
Products that claim 0 grams of fat content may still contain trans fat, why? Yes, that's because a food company can claim their products contain zero trans fat as long as they contain less than 0.5 grams per serving.
- Trans fat hardens at room temperature, the harder the margarine is, the more trans fat it contains.
- Choose the product that suits your taste because this can minimize excess consumption.
But if you really want to eat healthy foods, replace butter or butter with olive oil , yogurt or mashed avocados. It doesn't taste delicious, healthy friend!
