* Spread Some Love*

I can already imagine whatz for breakfast today. Soft white bread with its hard brown crumb, spread with a little of the margarine will definitely make my day=) What would be better then heaven breakfast. I always like my bread with margarine..blame my mum for that. Me and mum loves bread with margarine and i like it with abit of cheese on it! Well..as my mum is the health freak,we only use margarine instead if the normal butter. I did wonder what is the great different between these two? Arent they look just the same?

Lets see the differences between butter and margarine. Margarines contain more trans fat than butter, the total of trans and saturated fat (the LDL-C raising fats) is always less than the total for butter. The total for butter is much higher because of all the saturated fat that it contains. There are two common type of fats present-saturated fat and unsaturated fat. Saturated fats are usually found in butter and animal fats are known as the bad fats. Whereas, unsaturated fats are commonly found in vegetable oils,seed and nuts.

Vegetable oils are commonly referred to as "polyunsaturated". This simply means that there are several double bonds present. Vegetable oils may be converted from liquids to solids by the hydrogenation reaction. Margarines and shortenings are "hardened" in this way to make them solid or semi-solids. Vegetable oils which have been partially hydrogenated, are now partially saturated so the melting point increases to the point where a solid is present at room temperature. The degree of hydrogenation of unsaturated oils controls the final consistency of the product. Also during partial hydrogenation, some of the unsaturated fatty acids, which are normally found as the cis isomer about the double bonds, are changed to a trans double bond and remain unsaturated. Trans fatty acids of the same length and weight as the original cis fatty acids, still have the same number of carbons, hydrogens, and oxygens but they are now shaped in a more linear form, as opposed to the bent forms of the cis isomers. Well, margarine should not be taken in a large quantity as the trans fat in it is harmful and can lead to heart disease.

hasha: Spread the love people=)