The great grudge match of bread spreads—butter vs. margarine—has a new champion. After several decades of inexplicable margarine-dominance, the trend has finally flipped in butter’s favor. The USDA ...

And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: March 16th, 1950, 64 years ago today . . . a milestone on the road to table spread parity. For that was the day President Harry Truman signed a bill ...

“Margarine can indicate any of a wide range of butter substitutes. Margarine naturally appears white, or almost white, and by forbidding the addition of artificial coloring agents, legislators in some ...

Here’s an interesting piece of food facts trivia: Did you know that we have Napoleon III to thank for margarine? He offered a prize to whomever could invent a cheap butter substitute to feed the ...

Butter get high saturated fat – but margarine na ultra-processed food. To know di one wey be di queen of healthy spreads dey tricky. Butter don be staple food for British diet for centuries bifor ...

Only over 20 years ago butter was the public villain — contributing to raised cholesterol levels and public concern over an increased risk of heart disease. Now, this public perception seems to have ...

Whether butter or margarine is better for you is one of those much-debated food questions, like whether the chicken or the egg came first or whether a hot dog is a sandwich. But the geniuses over at ...

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