Butter or Margerine?. :-/

[OrganicFreeRangeBoys]

Possibly a bit of a strange one but have just been looking into which is healthier for us. Butter or Margerine?

There's lots of conflicting advice out there about which one is healthier for us but, with what I've read, I've come to the (maybe wrong) conclusion that (organic) butter is better than Margerine.

Is this right? What are your thoughts?

Ps: and is it me or does the word 'Margerine' look like it's spelled wrong?

That's because I have spelled it wrong.

Margarine* I mean Margarine.

I'm not sure which is healthiest. I suspect it comes down to what some people consider 'healthy' to mean.

But butter is about 100 times more delicious so I don't know why you;re even thinking about it.

Ha, yes. Butter is about 100 times more delicious, that's why we use it.

I was told today that we shouldn't eat butter as it's not good for us. I wasn't sure so I googled it! Not that it helped of course, otherwise I wouldn't be asking here!

Butter is fine for you. Just don't overdo it.

I'd stick with the pure delicious taste of butter

Not sure exactly but DH reckons marge has some nasty chemical in it to make it spreadable. We have butter, much tastier, plus I cook most stuff from scratch and butter is better for making sauces, pastry etcactly but DH reckons marge has some nasty chemical in it to make it spreadable. We have butter, much tastier, plus I cook most stuff from scratch and butter is better for making sauces, pastry etc

I would say butter. Margarine - actual margarine, not dairy spread - is in fact white and they have to put the yellow colour in to make it look palatable. The argument of butter vs. marge is based around the types of fats that each contain and which are worse for you. Margarine contains trans fats (evil!), butter contains saturated fats (bad) and some dairy spreads are made with polyunsaturated fats (better). Personally, I tend to go for organic butter, as it is a more "natural" product that spread and hasn't been faffed around with so much...however you look at it, fat is still fat.

definitely small amounts of butter. No comparison between milk and a bit of salt, and the huge list of ingredients on the side of a packet of margarine.