Você sabia?

Estou traduzindo uma palestra sobre nutrição e bem lá na frente do texto há uma parte que fala sobre a invenção da margarina - que, diga-se de passagem, eu não como nem amarrada:

During WW2, butter was somehow needed for munitions manufacture, and a substitute for the American public was needed. Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys. When it killed the turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the research wanted a payback so they put their heads together to figure out what to do with this product. It was a white substance with no food appeal so they added a yellow coloring and sold it to people to eat. When margarine first came on the market you had to mix in the "color" packet to make it yellowish. It was called ‘butter yellow’ which thru a relatively short period of time, was found to make people sick. This led to beta carotene being substituted, for coloring. If you find people to ask, they will remember the old Butter Yellow, when it was introduced.

Generally, fat increases the absorption of protein, and obviously fat soluble vitamins. Much to both shock and humor of my patients, I have also been telling my patients that they can put the margarine on a plate outside, and come back in 20 years, and it’ll look exactly the same.- barring any heat induced melt factor. No bugs, no mold, no nothing.

Margarine is only ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC...

You can try this little test for yourself:

Purchase a tub of margarine and leave it in your garage or shaded area. Within a couple of days you will note

No flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it (that should tell you something). It does not rot or smell differently because it has no nutritional value; nothing will grow on it.

Mais sobre a história da margarina, aqui.

Comments

[Julia]

Também não como nem se a Virgem aparecer sorrindo num pote de Doriana. Às vezes me lembra aqueles salgadinhos tipo "Cheetos": já botou fogo em um? Eu, já. Queima que é uma beleza.

[Solange]

Que horror! Ainda bem que aboli essa coisa do meu cardápio há séculos (se bem que de vez em quando ainda acho um pote na geladeira; parece que a moça que trabalha aqui não vive sem :P)

[Maria]

Que coisa... que coisa... que coisa... eu como todo dia! Uma molécula away do plástico? credo!

[Maura]

Maria, não é por nada não, mas eu repensaria o consumo da margarina se fosse você. Manteiga é muito melhor para a saúde. Margarina é uma "graxa" sem nenhum valor nutritivo. Beijão.

[Fer]

argh! eu nao sabia disso e nunca eh tarde demais pra ficar sabendo. beijos,