They may look the same and often sit side by side on the breakfast table, but butter and margarine are quite different in how they’re made and what they contain ...

Ever wonder why your great-grandmother kept her butter substitute locked away like contraband? The story of margarine is one ...

There's a few reasons you might want to use margarine instead of butter when baking: Perhaps you're vegan, or you just want to cut back on saturated fats in your diet (of which butter has plenty). But ...

Is margarine what you should choose for your health — or is butter a better spread? “I think most people assume that margarine or butter replacements are a better choice for health because they’re ...

There are few things tastier than a pat of butter or margarine spread across a biscuit in the morning or melting into a piping hot baked potato for dinner. While you may already prefer one over the ...

The answer is a little bit complicated. Butter, margarine, and plant-based butters all offer a bit of creamy goodness that you can spread onto your toast or include in your recipes. But each of these ...

Is butter superior to margarine? For years, the warring champions of butter and margarine (made from vegetable fat —mostly soybean and cottonseed oil) have been smearing each other, despite laboratory ...

Margarine has seen its fortunes ebb and flow with the tide of popular opinion. But Unilever’s recent announcement that it’s dropping the margarine brands Flora and Stork marks a new low point for the ...