Trust in the food industry is not exactly great. But are the findings in this video really that “shocking”?
Fact check: Butter dissolves in water, margarine does not. It is understandable that consumers do not trust many foods. Some sites often report alarmistly about poisons in food. A video is now intended to demonstrate how simple methods can be used to determine that food has been manipulated.
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Do these simple methods really do what they claim?
In the video, a piece of butter and a piece of margarine are placed in a glass of hot water and mixed. The butter dissolves, the margarine doesn't.
We don’t really understand where the “shocking secret” lies. Butter and margarine look similar, but are different products and therefore behave differently in this experiment. But nowhere does it say that it is the same product - neither on the packaging nor in advertising.
So one can only guess what the experiment wants to show us. That margarine is harder to digest because it doesn't dissolve in hot water? Our digestive system doesn't work that easily.
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The claim “butter dissolves in water, margarine doesn’t” is true.
However, the meaning behind this remains a mystery, as nowhere does it say that butter and margarine are the same.
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- Fact check: Butter dissolves in water, margarine does not
- Fact check: Real honey has a “genetic memory”
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- Fact check: There are synthetic fibers in cupcakes
- Fact check: Drinks are full of chemical dyes
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