Can you tell the diffrence?

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Mel B - 2013-11-23 12:45 PMUnsalted butter is only really meant for cooking as you can then add salt as required for the type of food you are preparing.Salted butter (sel, demi-sel etc) varies depending on the producer, some can be 0.5%, others can be as high as 3% so they are not all the same, we like between 1.5% an 2%.As for margarine, the stuff that you buy in tubs or blocks is NOT margarine it is a SPREAD or a BLEND, it is not legally permitted to call it margarine now due to the reduced fat content - margarine HAS to have a fat content of 80% min to 90% max to qualify for the name. As far as I'm aware even Stork margarine is no longer called that (it doesn't say margarine on the packet any more) as it only has 75% fat content now so doesn't meet the criteria, it is still good for baking though!http://www.imace.org/issues/eu-legislation/http://www.milk.co.uk/page.aspx?intPageID=382I'm not aware of anywhere in the UK that you can actually buy a product legally called margarine now!

 

When you see the formulation for spreads or reduced fat margarines ( the EU definition) You wonder why anyone would voluntarily opt for the 'spread'

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Can%27t_Believe_It%27s_Not_Butter!

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margarine

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butter

 

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Brian Kirby - 2013-11-23 11:53 AM

 

JudgeMental - 2013-11-23 10:14 AM

 

"Of course, if you empty the salt pot on your food then it will simply taste of......salt!"

 

but that is more or less what people do *-)

 

I go with harvey & PJay..lurpak unsalted for us.

If your sense of taste has become educated to food without salt, any added salt merely makes food taste salty. The funny thing is, once you have adjusted, all food tastes just as good without salt, as it used to taste with. It is what you have become accustomed to tasting, not that unsalted food of any kind lacks flavour. It just takes a bit of time. The same is true of sugar.

 

spot on......have been mainly salt salt free for a few years (doctors orders)..even bake own bread because commercial stuff full of it...dont mis it to be honest and have the blood pressure of an 18 year old! (unfortunately he wants it back:D)