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Promoted as a Health product?

  • Writer: Pete Woollard
    Pete Woollard
  • Oct 30, 2017
  • 1 min read

Do people That eat Margarine and "Health" spreads really know how it's manufactured?

- Soy beans, corn, cottonseed or canola seeds

- Oils extracted by high temperature & pressure

- Remaining fraction of oils removed with hexane and other solvents

-Oils, now rancid, steam cleaned to remove all vitamins & antioxidants, but pesticides and solvents remain

- Oils mixed with a nickel catalyst

- Oils with catalyst subjected to hydrogen gas in high-pressure, high-temperature reactor

- Soap like emulsifiers mixed in

- Oil steam cleaned again to remove horrible odour

- Gray colour removed by bleaching

- Artificial flavours, synthetic vitamins and natural colour added (Why natural at this stage, seems kind of pointless to me after the rest of the processes thus far)

- Mixture is packaged in blocks or tubs

So what do you think? You still going to reach for the "Health Spread"? Or what do you think, how about butter as a better option?


 
 
 

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