Choose soft margarines that have no trans fat and come in a tub or squeeze bottle.

A serving is 1 teaspoon of soft margarine or vegetable oil, 1 tablespoon of mayonnaise, or 2 tablespoons of salad dressing.

Liquid vegetable oil, soft margarine, and trans fatty acid-free margarine are preferable to butter, stick margarine, or shortening.

He had promised Anita, his wife, to pick up a quart of milk and tub of soft margarine on his way home from work.

Choose soft margarine (tub or liquid) over harder stick forms.

Benecol tastes like any soft margarine.

But using a soft margarine rather than a stick margarine lowers trans fatty acids in the diet while increasing the level of polyunsaturated fats, which lower blood cholesterol.

Regular soft margarines in the little cup-like tubs are generally lower in trans fatty acids than stick margarines, but they provide about the same amount of calories, fat and saturated fat.

Whipped margarine is soft margarine with air incorporated into the mix.

This process, called hydrogenation, makes the fate more solid, giving us hard rather than soft margarine.