5 Healthiest Margarine/Spreads
Remember when all you needed to decide was whether to buy butter or margarine and then it was stick or tub. Now the decisions in this category are mind boggling. There are margarines and butters filled with functional ingredients such as omega-3s, plant sterols, calcium, and vitamin D. And now that all margarines say “0 gram Trans fats”, the question is are they hiding the Trans fats below the 0.5 gram limit with partially hydrogenated oils or have they substituted saturted fats for Trans fats. Or they may brag about their healthy oils–canola, olive, or flaxseed–though it may be too little to matter. In addition, the distinction between butter and margarine is muddled with butters that contain added canola, olive, or flaxseed oils and margarines that include buttermilk and yogurt as ingredients.
Here are the SUPERMARKET SAVVY Picks for the healthiest margarines and/or spreads. Our basic criteria is that they contain no more than 1.5 gram of saturated fat and do not list partially hydrogenated oils as an ingredient.
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