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• n  a glyceryl ester of margaric acid
• n  a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter

• Is butter superior to margarine? For years, the warring champions of butter and margarine (made from vegetable fat mostly soybean and cottonseed oil) have been smearing each .
• Since then, margarine-makers and embattled housewives, who saw no reason why they should have to spend 15 minutes kneading the coloring into a pound of margarine, have persuaded .
• Generations of butter lovers have held that margarine should not qualify as a food.

• glycerol trimargarate
• margarine
• oleo
• oleomargarine
• marge