Monday, August 17, 2026

i'll need to do some shopping, but you can buy margarine in the us (apparently marketed somewhat hilariously as 'plant butter') with vitamin e.

i used to get margarine with 50% of the vitamin e requirements. vitamin e is somewhat elusive in a low fat, low protein diet, so that as very helpful. adding vitamin e to margarine seems to have been completely banned in canada. now, the olive oil margarine is rapidly disappearing altogether, and being replaced with palm oil, which is horribly unhealthy.

there's just been this movement towards making things less healthy across the board in canada, and i don't get it, but shopping in the us might solve it.