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Butterine vs Margarine - What's the difference?

butterine | margarine |

As nouns the difference between butterine and margarine

is that butterine is a substance prepared from animal fat with some other ingredients intermixed, as an imitation of butter while margarine is a spread, manufactured from a blend of vegetable oils (some of which are hydrogenated), emulsifiers etc, mostly used as a substitute for butter.

butterine

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Noun

  • A substance prepared from animal fat with some other ingredients intermixed, as an imitation of butter.
  • * "If a man sells you anything as good as what you ask for, but yet entirely different, are you cheated? … [A] man may say his butterine is as pure and wholesome as genuine butter, and therefore why not sell it as butter?" — "Adulteration of Fruit Preserves and Other Foods" by R. C. Kedzie in Twenty-fourth annual report of the secretary of the State Horticultural Society of Michigan , 1894

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    margarine

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    Noun

    (wikipedia margarine) (en-noun)
  • A spread, manufactured from a blend of vegetable oils (some of which are hydrogenated), emulsifiers etc, mostly used as a substitute for butter.