Butter vs Promise

[JBezold]

Can anyone tell me if the ingredients in No Fat Promise Spread is bad for you? i am a butter person myself but after my husbands heart attack this past month I am concerned about continuing to eat butter eventhough it is organic. Please reply.

[maxlharris]

http://www.scientificpsychic.com/fitness/labels1.html

There is the label.
Ingredients:
Water
Vegetable Mono- and Di- Glycerides (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071001105154AAsqJOn) (Transfats... not good)
Salt
Rice Starch (http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/502352/rice-starch) (this is a carb... which butter does not have)
Gelatin
Natural and Artificial Flavors
Lactose (milk sugar)
Color (including Yellows 5 and 6) (organic butter doesn't have artificial color)
Vegetable Datum (I cannot get a straight answer on what this is... but it does add a marginal amount of fat to the spread, so I am thinking it might be a vegetable based transfat... not sure though)
Potassium Sorbate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium_sorbate) (preservative... safe)
Lactic Acid
Calcium Disodium EDTA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium_disodium_EDTA) (preservative, keeps the color in and keeps it more air stable)
Soy Lecithin (http://www.chow.com/stories/10701) (I'm not a fan, but this is a small dose)
Vitamin A (Hey, something healthy!)

I'm not gonna tel you to butter up hubby, but I am going to suggest that Promise is not a promise worth keeping. It has transfats. Transfats are bad. Always. It does not list transfats due to a quirk in FDA labeling requirements (if you can cut up a serving so it has less that .5 of a gram, you can call it zero).