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 April 6, 1930, looking for a way to keep his company’s shortcake-baking machinery busy when strawberries are out of season, James Dewar tries injecting one of the cakes with cream filling. He dubs his creation the Twinkie.

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And they are still selling that batch they made 96 years ago. No known difference.  

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And diabetes specialists everywhere celebrated the steady increase in business... 

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Twinkies are far from a healthy food, but nutritionists say there are worse things you can consume than the classic cake treat.

As you probably are aware, soda is not good for you. But the calories in a can of soda are more insidious than the calories in, say, a Twinkie, because the soda calories may be invisible to your brain. Sweetened beverages, such as ice tea and lemonade, have little nutritional value and are often just as bad for you as soda. And like soda, the calories in these beverages may not be registered by your brain.

Some cereal bars are covered with labels of "high fiber" and "low fat." It is important to pay attention to their ingredients to know if what you're eating is really good for you. "It may be low in fat, and high in fiber, but also be pure junk.”

If the first ingredient is sugar, and if they are made with a refined grain, cereal bars are no better than a Twinkie,

Deborah Enos, a certified nutritionist and a health coach in the Seattle area, nominates margarine as the worse food ever. Some margarines are "chock-full of hydrogenated fats," also known as trans fats, Enos said. These fats are not found in nature, and "your body doesn't know what to do with them," Enos said.

"Your body processes them like a saturated fat; so margarine becomes an artery clogging mess.

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Kids that work around me go to the fair in the summer specifically for the terrible food.  One is a batter fried Twinkie with strawberry compote, ganache, then sprinkled with powdered sugar.  Once a year may not kill ya.  I still wouldn't.  

 

Blech

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8 hours ago, 953 nut said:

margarine as the worse food ever

 

Before my time - It was not legal to sell yellow colored margarine in Wisconsin. All margarine was white when you bought it.  This was an attempt to help protect the dairy industry. 

 

I was helping my dad clean out a residents once and came upon this dye. I asked what it was for and got the explanation that at one time if you wanted yellow margarine you had to add the color dye to it yourself. Delrich made the process even easier by adding a dye dot right in the package.

 

 

 

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Growing up on a dairy farm we made our own butter. While visiting one of my dad's nephews I happened to be in the kitchen while his wife was blending the dye into the margarine.  Never having seen margarine I told my mother they were serving colored lard instead of butter, she corrected me promptly bur everyone kept an eye on me to see if I would eat any of it.  I DIDN'T. 

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13 hours ago, 953 nut said:

…because the soda calories may be invisible to your brain. …

 

…And like soda, the calories in these beverages may not be registered by your brain.

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Some margarines are "chock-full of hydrogenated fats," also known as trans fats, Enos said. These fats are not found in nature, and "your body doesn't know what to do with them," Enos said.

"Your body processes them like a saturated fat; so margarine becomes an artery clogging mess.

There are some odd things in the (presumed) quote.  
 

Calories that are invisible to or not registered by the brain…What does that mean?

 

Also, hydrogenated fats are not “known as trans fats.”  Some hydrogenated fats are trans.  Some are cis.  Some are fully hydrogenated so can’t be cis nor trans…all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares.  
 

It’s true that trans hydrogenated fats are not healthy, but it’s not going to be very common to find them in significant amounts in margarine these days since they are no longer permitted.  And there are naturally occurring trans fats, although not dietarily common.  
 

Lots of artery cloggers out there, but margarine’s not the prime suspect some may suggest.  It’s also not particularly delicious, but that’s a different issue. 
 

Steve