Margarine

Also called oleo and marge

Margarine is a fat made with water and sometimes vegetable oil or table salt. It can be firm or soft. Cooks use it for baking and seasoning.

Category: Fats & oils
Texture: Firm, soft
Cooked most in: Asia
Top country: Indonesia
Dishes: 19 in the catalogue
Energy: 349 kcal per 100 g

Photo: Famartin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use margarine

Typical ways to cook or use it

Bake
Season

Made from

water
vegetable oil (sometimes)
table salt (sometimes)

Flavour

Taste and texture

Texture

Firm
Soft

Shopping

Choosing and storing margarine

Availability: Supermarkets (01M6Z353KJBJMS0ZDRKBRG0R4Q)

Nutrition

What 100 g of margarine holds

Per 100 g. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.

Protein 1%Fat 96%Carbohydrate 4%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of margarine
Energy	349 kcal · 1,459 kJ
Protein	0.23 g
Fat	38 g
of which saturated	8.7 g
Carbohydrate	1.5 g
of which sugars	0 g
Fibre	0 g
Sodium	584 mg
Cholesterol	0 mg

Nutrition per 100 g of margarine: minerals and vitamins
Potassium	51 mg
Calcium	6 mg
Iron	0.04 mg
Magnesium	1 mg
Zinc	0.02 mg
Vitamin A (RAE)	1,348 µg
Folate	3 µg
Vitamin B12	0.06 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (food 171415), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

Around the world

Where margarine is cooked

19 dishes in the catalogue use margarine. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Asia19

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list margarine among their ingredients.

Origins

1869 · France
Margarine was invented in response to a French request for a butter substitute.
1874 · United Kingdom
The first commercial shipment reached the UK.
1950 · United States
American manufacturers had largely changed to vegetable fats and oils.

On the table

Dishes made with margarine

17 of the 19 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

Klatak Satay
Indonesia
Bakpia
China, Indonesia
Bika Ambon
Indonesia
Klappertaart
Indonesia
Lapis talas Bogor
Indonesia
Acehnese Murtabak
Indonesia
Lontar cake
Indonesia
Putri noong
Indonesia
Putri salju cake
Indonesia
Bolu kojo
Indonesia
Colenak
Indonesia
Kelemben
Indonesia
Kue lumpur
Indonesia
Pukis
Indonesia
Ampas Tarigu
Indonesia
Getuk
Indonesia
Janda berenang
Indonesia

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include margarine.

Around the world

What margarine is called

Names in 75 languages, from Wikidata.

Spanish
margarina
French
margarine · minarine
Italian
margarina
Portuguese
margarina
German
Margarine · Butterersatz · Kunstbutter · Spezial-Backfett
Dutch
margarine
Greek
Μαργαρίνη · Μαργαρίνες
Turkish
margarin
Russian
маргарин
Polish
margaryna · masło roślinne
Arabic
سمن نباتي · السمن النباتي · مارجرين · مارغرين
Persian
مارگارین · مارگارين

Show all 75 languages

Afrikaans
Margarien
Albanian
Margarina
Armenian
Մարգարին
Asturian
Margarina
Bangla
মার্জারিন
Banjar
Margarin
Basque
Margarina
Belarusian
Маргарын
Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)
маргарын
Bulgarian
Маргарин
Cantonese
人造牛油 · 植物牛油
Catalan
margarina
Chinese
植物牛油 · 瑪琪琳 · 馬芝蓮 · 植物奶油
Croatian
Margarin
Czech
Margarín
Danish
margarine · margarin · kunstsmør
Egyptian Arabic
سمن نباتى
Esperanto
margarino
Estonian
Margariin
Filipino
Margarina
Finnish
margariini
Galician
Margarina
Georgian
მარგარინი
Gujarati
માર્જરિન
Hebrew
מרגרינה
Hindi
मार्जरीन
Hungarian
margarin
Icelandic
Smjörlíki
Ido
Margarino
Indonesian
margarin
Irish
buíoc · margairín
Japanese
マーガリン · 人造バター
Javanese
Margarin
Kannada
ಮಾರ್ಗರೀನ್‌(ಕೃತಕ ಬೆಣ್ಣೆ)
Kazakh
Маргарин · Асханалық маргарин
Korean
마가린 · 마아가린
Latvian
margarīns
Lithuanian
Margarinas
Macedonian
Маргарин
Malay
Marjerin
Nepali
मार्गरिन
Norwegian Bokmål
margarin · Margarin
Norwegian Nynorsk
Margarin
Occitan
margarine
Piedmontese
Margarin-a
Romanian
margarină · margarina
Rusyn
Маргарин
Serbian
маргарин
Serbian (Cyrillic)
маргарин
Serbian (Latin)
Margarin
Serbian (Latin)
margarin
Sinhala
මාජරින්
Slovak
Margarín · Rastlinný margarín
Slovenian
margarina
Swahili
Marjarini
Swedish
margarin · lättmargarin · smörgåsmargarin · flytande margarin
Tajik
Маргарин
Tatar
маргарин
Thai
เนยเทียม · Margarine · มาร์การีน
Ukrainian
маргарин
Uzbek
Margarin
Vietnamese
bơ thực vật
Waray
Margarina
Welsh
Marjarîn
Western Frisian
margarine
Wu Chinese
瑪淇淋

Sources and credits

Data

GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
USDA FoodData Central (Foundation, SR Legacy): nutrition values (Public domain (US government work, CC0))
Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
Wikimedia Commons: photos
Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Wikidata item: Q4287

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