• kibiz0r@midwest.social
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    16 hours ago

    Butter isn’t actually that bad for you. There was a botched study that was later refuted, but not before the margarine industry had an epic all-out war with the butter industry where both sides did shady shit. (Like, at one point the butter lobby succeeded in making it illegal to color margarine yellow.)

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      3 hours ago

      Isn’t it a known fact that vegetable fats like canola oil are way healthier than animal fats? I’m not sure how they make margarine to be honest, but I’ve always heard from multiple reputable sources that cooking with canola oil was way healthier than butter.

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        1 hour ago

        From what i understand … it depends. Margarine can be healthier, but it’s also not regulated, so you can pack a lot more trans fats in margarine then butter. So margarine itself is not an indication of its health value.

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      4 hours ago

      I thought they were talking about sugar. A lot of cookie recipes are like half sugar half flour, molasses for taste, and in the butter binds them.

      That many calories isn’t great, if nothing else it’ll have adverse effects on the gut biome.

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      15 hours ago

      I mean it’s bad for you in the way that salt is bad for you… Too much without anything to balance it is bad, but used correctly it actually has benefits. The fat free diet to me is the same as trying to have a salt free diet… There’s probably more going on there than just that one thing.