Promoted as a Health product?
- 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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