What's the difference between butter and margarin?

Butter


Definition:

  • (n.) An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning.
  • (n.) Any substance resembling butter in degree of consistence, or other qualities, especially, in old chemistry, the chlorides, as butter of antimony, sesquichloride of antimony; also, certain concrete fat oils remaining nearly solid at ordinary temperatures, as butter of cacao, vegetable butter, shea butter.
  • (v. t.) To cover or spread with butter.
  • (v. t.) To increase, as stakes, at every throw or every game.
  • (n.) One who, or that which, butts.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The dumplings could also be served pan-fried in browned butter and tossed with a bitter leaf salad and fresh sheep's cheese for a lighter, but equally delicious option.
  • (2) Heat vegetable oil and a little bit of butter in a clean pan and fry the egg to your taste.
  • (3) The design and results obtained by this program are illustrated by the determination of water and milk solids-not-fat contents in butter, using data collected monthly over a period of 19 years.
  • (4) The evacuation of breakfast with butter was inhibited almost to the same degree.
  • (5) The paper presents the data on the chemical composition and the technology of manufacturing a new sort of butter for child's and dietetic nutrition.
  • (6) The absorption times of the two drugs from suppositories with cocoa butter and Witepsol H 15 were relatively short.
  • (7) Recently the company had to agree to a sales target with banks as part of a refinancing of its debt burden, which had come down to less than £1bn after the sale of Branston Pickle to Japanese Mizkan Group and the sale of Hartley's jams and Sun-Pat peanut butter to US company Hain Celestial.
  • (8) Safflower oil, a highly unsaturated fat, added to a diet with cholesterol resulted in at least as high an incidence of cholesterol gallstones as butter added to the same diet.
  • (9) Weanling male Sprague-Dawley rats were fed diets containing 20% by weight corn, soybean or low erucic acid rapeseed oils or mixtures of the latter two with cocoa butter or triolein for 1, 2, 3 or 4 weeks.
  • (10) For the filling, cream the remaining butter with the sugar until very creamy.
  • (11) Sixteen United Kingdom analytical laboratories participated in an evaluation of 3 commercially available enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kits for analysis of aflatoxin in peanut butter.
  • (12) It was found in the study that the greatest part of milk fats consumed at home consists of butter and low-fat milk.
  • (13) It was one of the fake tongue extensions from The Exorcist, with a note saying, 'Just stick a dab of peanut butter on the end and put it on.'
  • (14) 1.46am BST Dodgers 0 - Cardinals 0, top of 1st With Gonzalez at the plate "the Dodgers butter and egg man" says Vin Scully, Kelly throws a wild pitch all the way back to the wall.
  • (15) Makes around 20 75g butter, melted 75g granulated sugar 1 tbsp vanilla sugar 160g oats 2 tbsp cocoa powder 3 tbsp strong coffee, cooled to room temp Desiccated coconut, to finish 1 Whisk the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, then stir in the vanilla sugar, oats, cocoa and coffee.
  • (16) 2 Ten minutes before the potatoes are ready, melt 25g of the butter in a large nonstick frying pan and fry the bacon until lightly coloured.
  • (17) With a long-term (1 and 4 months) introduction of an additional amount of edible fats (beef, hog fats, butter, sunflower seed oil) to intact and intratracheally quartz-dust laden sexually mature male rats an organ-specific reaction to the supply of fat, and in intact rats, also some peculiarities of the reaction depending upon the kind of the introduced fats, were discovered.
  • (18) In a casserole over a medium heat, fry the onions in the oil and butter for 5 minutes, to soften.
  • (19) During 4 weeks male Wistar rats (initial weight 140-150 g) were on feed containing as lipid component 6% butter and 3% fish oil obtained from Sardinops sagax melanosticta (n3 PUFA-diet).
  • (20) Serves 4 100g butter, at room temperature 150g flour 50g ground almonds 30g suet 1 egg yolk 50g cooked chestnuts, chopped 5 tbsp chopped fresh thyme Salt and black pepper For the leeks 1kg leeks, trimmed 100g butter Salt and pepper 200ml double cream 1 tsp nutmeg 1 To make the crumble topping, work the butter into the flour until it resembles coarse breadcrumbs, then add the ground almonds and suet.

Margarin


Definition:

  • (n.) A fatty substance, extracted from animal fats and certain vegetable oils, formerly supposed to be a definite compound of glycerin and margaric acid, but now known to be simply a mixture or combination of tristearin and teipalmitin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The present study compares the atherogenicity of a standard diet and diets with 10% olive oil or 10% margarine added, in rabbits maintained at a mean plasma cholesterol level of about 20 mM for 13 weeks.
  • (2) HP-GPC fractionation was completed on oil and margarine dissolved in methylene chloride by 2 elution passes through 2 muStyragel (100 angstrom) columns connected in series with methylene chloride as the mobile phase.
  • (3) Nevertheless some of the respondents had evidently come to like the soft vegetable margarine that was not available in their childhood.
  • (4) By 1909 margarines were first made by the hydrogenation of marine oils and, later, vegetable oils as a substitute for butter, thereby introducing saturated fats.
  • (5) The differences in nutrient intake were accompanied by differences in the consumption of polyunsaturated margarines and cereal-containing foods.
  • (6) The time trends of Crohn's disease in different countries were not matched by similar time trends of either sugar or margarine consumption.
  • (7) Clinically significant amounts of lactose were found in low-calorie sweeteners, breads, yogurt, margarine, penicillin, Gantrisin, and other commonly ingested nondairy substances.
  • (8) The intake of butter is higher in the south and the intake of total and dietetic margarine and of fish are higher in the north.
  • (9) Vitamin A activity in the margarines ranged from 90.6 to 110.8% of the label declaration.
  • (10) The meals comprised: wholemeal bread with margarine; white bread with margarine; marmalade made with sucrose, and cheddar cheese; and marmalade (22% of total energy) on wholemeal bread with margarine.
  • (11) The explanation to these findings is the dietary practice in farmers' households, full milk and butter being favoured instead of other milk types and vegetable margarine, respectively.
  • (12) For two samples of margarine and two samples of mixed feed, the calculated value of the vitamin E activity after chemical determination of the tocopherols and tocotrienols was compared with the value found by direct bioassay, and reasonably good agreement was found.
  • (13) Last summer, I spent several days in the British Library reading austerity cookbooks: survival manuals for housewives who had to cope with the rationing that would outlast the war by several years (butter, cheese, margarine, cooking fats and meat did not come off the ration until 1954).
  • (14) All margarines and edible oils contain not only steroid hydrocarbons but also the products of their oxidation and hydrogenation.
  • (15) Intakes from the sources studied were then compared with those from fish, butter and margarine.
  • (16) Last month a paper in the BMJ stated that replacing saturated animal fats, which are traditionally thought of as bad, with omega-6 polyunsaturated vegetable fats, found in wholesome margarine, actually increased deaths among people who already had heart disease.
  • (17) A survey of food habits since 1959 shows a higher butter and lower soft margarine consumption in the south.
  • (18) As these operations impair the grinding and sieving of solid food, we sought to determine the effect of vagotomy and antrectomy on fat absorption from solid (e.g., liver) as compared with liquid (e.g., margarine) dietary sources in the proximal small intestine.
  • (19) Ruth Joseph and Sarah Nathan, Cardiff, veggischmooze.blogspot.com Makes 10 blintzes 200g plain flour A pinch of salt 50g butter or margarine, melted 25ml olive oil 400ml milk 2 organic free-range eggs A little oil, to fry Icing sugar and sour cream, to serve For the filling 300g soft cheese 15g vanilla sugar Grated zest of ½ lemon 1-2 tbsp lemon juice, to taste Pinch of salt 50g chopped raisins or dried fruit (optional) Icing sugar and sour cream to serve 1 Put all the pancake ingredients apart from the oil and filling in a food processor and whizz.
  • (20) The meal comprised 29% of total daily caloric intake and contained green beans, rice, turkey, and margarine (50% carbohydrate, 20% protein, and 30% fat).

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