Blueband Margarine is but one molecule away from being plastic debate.

[inzhener_otmetka]

@ciokariga

I saw them use palm oil to make blue band when I visited East Africa Industries (forerunner to current Unilever) . I don’t know when they turned to polymers but certainly the taste never changed.

About taste, even sawdust can be made to taste like kienyeji ingokho…

[ciokariga]

@inzhener otmetka

About taste, even sawdust can be made to taste like kienyeji ingokho…

:D:Dyes, with taste enhancer 635 - disodium inosinate - which is approved by the FDA.

[thesavage]

A molecule makes a big difference. Consider water is one atom from hydrogen, alcohol and vinegar are one molecule apart.

[Ubongo]

Tulimaliza ngwaci na ndumas

[madova]

@Matina

There has been an online debate this week about blueband margarine being a soft PLASTIC … and shares 27 ingredients with PAINT.
Something the maker Unilever has strongly refuted… It’s a very healthy debate considering most people have come to believe using margarine is not healthy… Personally I hate it…:D:D:D
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This is the viral video that triggered the social media debate:

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[SIZE=7]Blue Band Margarine [/SIZE]
DO YOU KNOW …
The difference between margarine and butter?

1. Both have the same amount of calories.
2. Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams compared to 5 grams.
3. Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over eating the same amount of butter according to a recent Harvard Medical Study.
4. Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other foods. Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few only because they are added!
5. Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavors of other foods.
6. Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around for less than 100 years.

Now for Margarine…

1. Very high in Trans Fatty Acids…
2. Triple risk of Coronary Heart Disease…
3. Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) …
4. Lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol) …
5. Increases the risk of cancers by up to five fold…
6. Lowers quality of breast milk…
7. Decreases immune response…
8. Decreases insulin response.

And here is the most disturbing fact…

Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC…

This fact alone was enough to have me avoiding margarine for life and anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is added, changing the molecular structure of the substance).

YOU can try this yourself: purchase a tub of margarine and leave it in your garage or shaded area. Within a couple of days you will note a couple of things: 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… even those teeny weeny microorganisms will not a find a home to grow. Why? Because it is nearly plastic. Would you melt your tupperware and spread that on your toast?

RAISING PUBLIC AWARENESS

There are still holdouts within the ‘scientific’ community, particularly those employed or funded by the food industry, who claim there is not yet sufficient proof that trans- fats are dangerous, and then cite studies that justify their position. This is the name of the game in modern-day ‘science’ where egos and money are involved.
However, most studies currently appearing in the literature support the idea that these chemically altered fats are harmful. In such cases of conflict, I always side with Mother Nature: she is much wiser than we will ever be!

Remember that most of this information about trans- fats has been known for many years, but processors have succeeded in keeping the issue out of the public eye—another example of caveat emptor (let the buyer beware) in the food industry.

Now that you are aware of it, the rest is up to you! Good luck, and good health!
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State your source
http://www.boltaconsumer.com/complaints/blue-band-margarine-avoid-eating-margarine

[MortyTuumbo]

When i was a kid i enjoyed eating Blueband with that jam from a mkembe. But then after a while, I noticed that the taste changed and started smelling awful.

Is there any homemade real Kenyan butter? It’s better to eat the real thing once in a while.

[NeverForget]

We’re here for a good time, not a long time.

[Jukeboxhero]

I quit margarine when I found out that it’s origin was as an imitation/substitute of butter for those that could not afford butter. It’s originally white. To enhance its visual appeal its dyed yellow by an artificial coloring agent

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

[patco]

@Gerald Achieng Achieng

anything that doesn’t melt at room temperature is a big NO.

Icecream na vile iko na masukari mingi…

[patco]

compared to the chemicals and compounds akina Fidel Castro’s and Billy Graham’s and Moi’s generation used to consume today is paradise.Na bado anakuchapia 100 plus years. try starvation for a change see how that works out.

[Barueri]

@patco

compared to the chemicals and compounds akina Fidel Castro’s and Billy Graham’s and Moi’s generation used to consume today is paradise.Na bado anakuchapia 100 plus years. try starvation for a change see how that works out.

Msee huwa unareason kama panya inahara…
Tangu lini ukaona Moi eating blueband. The guy eats kienyeji food ONLY, hata akiwa statehouse breakfast used to be boiled maize, nduma, ngwaci, uji ya wimbi and such stuff

[sitaki]

I thought plastic if ingested will just pass through the digestive system, so I assume if it does not have nutritional value, the body will just let it pass.

[Jimit]

I do eat ugali milled from locally grown maize. Kitoweo huwanga either mayai, sukuma wiki, omena ama mboga kienyeji. For the sake of diet change, huwa nachange to wali na maharagwe n such stuff. Oh, and my high obsession with beef. Blueband Original has always been on the menu everyday for breakfast for the past 2 years, use it to spread bread. I had to quit drinking juice and soda. Will I make it past 70???

[patco]

@Barueri

Msee huwa unareason kama panya inahara…
Tangu lini ukaona Moi eating blueband. The guy eats kienyeji food ONLY, hata akiwa statehouse breakfast used to be boiled maize, nduma, ngwaci, uji ya wimbi and such stuff

so kwa hivyo tuseme umeishi na Moi tangu azaliwe 1925 na unajua diet yake kamili? Funda wewe!!!

Notice I said his generation. Zile product walitumia hiyo generation sio Moi pekee. Lead, asbestos, arsenic, DDT were used in all manner of foods and every day products when Moi was a young man. Na bado wanachapa 90 years and more. Moi alikuta gari za kwanza, na petrol ilikuwa na lead. And I’m sure like many of his generation he must have lost a few siblings to malnutrition, disease, starvation, snake bites na yeye amekuchapia 90 plus. Kiatu aliguza akiwa grownup. DDT was sprayed everywhere and on everything na bado amekuchapia 90 plus. So kula blue band wacha fitina.

[Gerald_Achieng_Achie]

@Gerald Achieng Achieng

anything that doesn’t melt at room temperature is a big NO.

This also extends to cooking oil.

[FieldMarshal_CouchP]

@Swansea

As much as it pains me to write this, as draconian as Moi’s regime was, Kenya was not this fù’çkëd up to this level.

God help this country.

Nimekwambia siku mingi I really don’t understand how you got those American degrees with an empty cranium. :D:D:D:D:D:D:D YOU WANT TO TELL US THERE WAS NO BLUEBAND IN KENYA DURING MOI’S ERROR?

[Dunya]

@Gerald Achieng Achieng

anything that doesn’t melt at room temperature is a big NO.

Does nyama choma melt?

[ciokariga]

@Dunya

Does nyama choma melt?

:D:D:Datakuja kukuambia bora unaelewa vile anasema.

[patco]

@FieldMarshal CouchP

Nimekwambia siku mingi I really don’t understand how you got those American degrees with an empty cranium. :D:D:D:D:D:D:D YOU WANT TO TELL US THERE WAS NO BLUEBAND IN KENYA DURING MOI’S ERROR?

Nimeona mahali that Blue band iliingia market 1955 na imelea watu commonwealth mzima. Now they want to backstab poor blue band, the thankless lot.

[phobe09]

@FieldMarshal CouchP

Nimekwambia siku mingi I really don’t understand how you got those American degrees with an empty cranium. :D:D:D:D:D:D:D YOU WANT TO TELL US THERE WAS NO BLUEBAND IN KENYA DURING MOI’S ERROR?

…kukaa!!