Margarine
About the ingredient margarine. Including 2,642 recipes with margarine, nutrition data, and where to find it.
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What is margarine?
Modern margarines can be made from any of a wide variety of animal or vegetable fats, mixed with skimmed milk, salt, and emulsifiers. Like butter, margarine is about 80% fat, 20% water and solids, flavored, colored, and fortified with vitamin A, and sometimes D, to match butter's nutritional contribution to the human diet.
Margarines made from vegetable oils are especially important in today's market, as they are lower in saturated fat than butter and are generally promoted as the healthier option, although this view has been challenged.
Three main types of margarine are common:
- Traditional margarines, which contain saturated fats, are mostly made from vegetable oils.
- Blended margarines, high in mono- or polyunsaturated fats, which are made from safflower, sunflower, soybean, cottonseed, grapeseed, or olive oil.
- Hard, generally uncolored margarine for cooking or baking. (Shortening)
Nutrition
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size 1 cup (227g)Where found
Margarine is usually found in the dairy section or aisle of the grocery store or supermarket.
Food group
Margarine is a member of the Fats and Oils US Department of Agriculture nutritional food group.
How much does margarine weigh?
| Amount | Weight |
|---|---|
| 1 cup | 227 grams |
| 1 tbsp | 14 grams |
Related
Fats and Oils
| In Chinese: | 人造奶油 | |
| British (UK) term: | ||
| en français: | margarine | |
| en español: | margarina |
Recipes using margarine
There are 2642 recipes that contain this ingredient.
