Is it true that margarine is really black? That it is just dyed yellow for us as consumers?!
Manufacturers cannot use liquid oils in baked goods or frying, and they are not spreadable. So to harden the liquid vegetable oils to make margarine and shortening, they put the oils through a process called partial hydrogenation. To make margarine or shortening, first the oil is extracted under high temperature and pressure, and the remaining fraction of oil is removed with hexane solvents. Then the oils are steam cleaned, a process that removes all the vitamins and anti-oxidants, but of course, the solvents and the pesticides remain. These oils are then mixed with a nickel catalyst and put into a huge high-pressure, high-temperature reactor. What goes into the reactor is a liquid, but what comes out of that reactor is a semi-solid that looks like grey cottage cheese and smells terrible. Emulsifiers are mixed in to smooth out the lumps. The product is then steam cleaned a second time to get rid of the horrible smell. Then it is bleached to get rid of the grey color. At this point, the product can be used as vegetable shortening.
To make margarine, they add artificial flavors and synthetic vitamins. You may be comforted to know that manufacturers are not allowed to add a synthetic color to margarine. So they add annatto or some other natural coloring. It is then packaged in blocks and tubs. Advertising promotes this garbage as a health food.
Eat butter. It's naturally made by a cow.
Answers: It's grey first then bleached to look white, then a natural flavor is added and a yellow dye.
Manufacturers cannot use liquid oils in baked goods or frying, and they are not spreadable. So to harden the liquid vegetable oils to make margarine and shortening, they put the oils through a process called partial hydrogenation. To make margarine or shortening, first the oil is extracted under high temperature and pressure, and the remaining fraction of oil is removed with hexane solvents. Then the oils are steam cleaned, a process that removes all the vitamins and anti-oxidants, but of course, the solvents and the pesticides remain. These oils are then mixed with a nickel catalyst and put into a huge high-pressure, high-temperature reactor. What goes into the reactor is a liquid, but what comes out of that reactor is a semi-solid that looks like grey cottage cheese and smells terrible. Emulsifiers are mixed in to smooth out the lumps. The product is then steam cleaned a second time to get rid of the horrible smell. Then it is bleached to get rid of the grey color. At this point, the product can be used as vegetable shortening.
To make margarine, they add artificial flavors and synthetic vitamins. You may be comforted to know that manufacturers are not allowed to add a synthetic color to margarine. So they add annatto or some other natural coloring. It is then packaged in blocks and tubs. Advertising promotes this garbage as a health food.
Eat butter. It's naturally made by a cow.
Actually margarine is white,and it is indeed dyed yellow.
no it is white then died yellow. It is not fit for human consumption. When broken down it is one molecule from plastic. It was invented to fatten turkeys, when they ate it they died. It was illegal to sell oleo in Wisconsin till the early 70s. Butter is a real product margerene is man made in a labratory.
It depends on what it's made from, it might be brownish or greyish in colour but is coloured either yellow or white so it more closely resembles butter, which is naturally white or yellow, which consumers are used to.
Butt Muncher *giggling*, is right, margarine is a synthetic molecular composition that is indeed one molecule away from being plastic. If you left a plate of butter and a plate of margarine out in the sun, the bugs wouldn't even go near the margarine. It's not black then dyed.
Dont talk about margaret like that
It's white and they dye it yellow so it will look like butter.
Oh no! Even if margerine is "one molecule away from being plastic", does this concern you that much? Water is one molecule different from being Hydrogen. Give me a break. It was not invented as a turkey food either, it's an Urban Legend, it was invented as a low cost substitute for butter.