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It is very important to ensure the safety of foods in any kinds of places. Briones said

that schools are good venues to promote a healthier lifestyle among Filipinos,

especially youth.

In school, there are foods that cooked in different ways in different ingredients,

Sta.Rosa National High School Senior High School department, the cookery students

cooked and sell foods to provide the snacks and lunch of the students and school staffs

as well. These foods has been looked in different ways and there is a substitution done,

example for this is the substitution of margarine available,these ways can make a

difference in taste of foods.

According to National Heart Organization (2015), it suggest that the substitution of oil

and stick margarine with tub margarine when spreadable fats are eaten may be

associated with reduced risk of myocardial infarction.

The DepEd said each school must develop the familiarization of the nutrients and

effects of an food to the students specially, particularly in a strand related in cooking

foods that they should be conservative in choosing ingredients to be used in that

particular foods.

Mostly in cooking they used oil as it part of the condiments or ingredients that we will

be used in that dish or food. But sometimes they only focused on the food they cooked

and on how they present without focusing the benefit that can dish give to our health.
In substituting margarine and oil they can benefit, not only food but also to our body

because the nutrients contains by margarine is much advisable in individuals health,

different from oil having the high cholesterol while the margarine have the lesser one.

According to all recipes, Shortening or vegetable oil combined with salt is a suitable

substitution for margarine.

According to Tulika Nair, Margarine is a very general term that has been used to refer

to a wide range of butter substitutes.

Today, margarine is a staple in most households, and is a very popular butter substitute.

According to Dr. Josh, "Too much margarine is bad for your heart due to its saturated

fat content, which yields about 70 percent fatty acids and about 25 percent

monounsaturated fatty acids."

Margarine contains fatty acids that can be bad for the health of a person however,

margarine had also a positive effects. It help avoi

d the effects of milk allergies. Margarine does not have much protein, but it contains a

little casein. Casein is a protein found in milk that often causes allergies. In fact, reports

indicate that cow’s milk allergy affects 2 percent to 3 percent of young children.

Reactions can include hives, rashes, wheezing, severe pain, food mal - absorption,

vomiting and breathing problems.