Bryan wrote:
> Doug Freyburger wrote:
>> James Silverton wrote:
>
>> > As a child, I preferred the more readily available margarine to butter
>
>> I also prefer margarine. It's a minority taste. I often have a tub of
>> Smart Balance in the fridge to have one that's close to transfat free
>> (rounding down from 0.5 grams not actually zero).
>
> Non-hydrogented margarine is healthier than butter.

That's what they said about margarine when it first came out. That
conclusion turned out false. Coming from corn doesn't make a food
healthy any more than coming from a cow makes a food unhealthy. Coming
from corn does make a product cheaper to make and it does make a product
more profitable to a large corporation so it gets better marketing.
That's not the same thing as being more healthy.

> No one should buy anything with hydrogenated fats out of principle.
> Hydrogenated fats should be removed from the Generally Recognized As
> Safe (GRAS) list.

This has been known for a bit over a decade at this point. It's still
news. Transfats exist in all fat but only in trace amounts. They
become harmful in more than trace amounts.