Have you ever heard of a saying, "Butter is better" or "I can't believe it's not butter"? Which one is really better? Butter or margarine? The answer to this long fought question is neither; neither butter nor margarine is actually good for you. This is due to the fat contained within these two scrumptious aids of bread; butter contains saturated fat and margarine contains transfat. Although saturated fat has its reputation of being a bad fat, transfat is worse. Furthermore it has been creeping in our food products for a long time.

Transfat is the worse of its kind, by increasing your bad cholesterol and decreasing your good cholesterol; transfat is reported to be the worse fat around. But what is transfat? How is it created? What does hydrogenation have to do with it? Firstly hydrogenation is the process where hydrogen atoms are added to unsaturated plant oils...