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- What About Margarine?
- What Is Clarified Butter?
- Nutrition Facts of Each Type of Butter and Margarine
- How Healthier Fats, Such as Olive Oil, Compare with Butters
- What to Know When Using Grass-Fed Butter
- Bottom Line: If You Have to Eat Butter, Choose Grass-Fed
Margarine is in a whole other category. As a butter alternative, margarine is made from vegetable oils. But given the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA)ban on artificially added trans fats, which margarine used to contain, it is controversial. The key to choosing a healthier margarine is opting for soft varieties, according to the AHA. In fa...
You may have also heard of clarified butter, or ghee. This type of butter — considered by followers of ayurvedic medicine to be the healthiest source of edible fat — is made by heating butter or cream to 212 degrees F to boil away the water content and filter out the milk solids, according to a past study. This process leaves nothing but the butter...
Here are the nutrition facts for 1 tbsp of each type, comparatively, according to the USDA and, for grass-fed butter, via StopandShop.com: Clarified butter: 1. Calories: 120 2. Fat: 14g 3. Saturated fat: 9g Margarine: 1. Calories: 100 2. Fat: 11g 3. Saturated fat: 4.5g Grain-fed salted butter: 1. Calories: 100 2. Fat: 11g 3. Saturated fat: 7g Grass...
For the sake of comparison, here’s how extra-virgin olive oilstacks up: 1. Calories: 107 2. Fat: 12g 3. Saturated fat: 2.2g Extra-virgin olive oil also contains 10 g of monounsaturated fat and 2 g of polyunsaturated fat per 1 tbsp serving. The AHA notes these fats are associated with improved heart health.
As strange as it may sound, one popular way of incorporating grass-fed butter into a diet is to drink it. People following a keto meal plan, for example, often add grass-fed butter to their coffee along with coconut oil or medium chain triglyceride (MCT) oil and use it as a breakfast replacement or for energy and focus in between meals. Some people...
If you have or are at risk for heart disease, soft margarine is your best bet, per the AHA. If not, and you don’t want to give up butter, consider switching from regular to grass-fed, and enjoy in moderation (1 tbsp daily). “Grass-fed butter has the nutritional edge in that it offers more heart-healthy nutrients than regular butter in a less-proces...
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