The main ingredients in popcorn are corn, sugar and oil, and about 50% to 70% of the finished popcorn is carbohydrates (including the starch in the corn as well as the ingredient sugar), 20% to 30% is fat, and about 3% to 9% is protein. Additives are butter, sugar, margarine, and flavorings.

Popcorn in the processing, in order to make the flavor of popcorn more attractive, adding a lot of margarine, individual flavors of popcorn will also add some flavorings; in order to make the popcorn more beautiful, but also to add some coloring inside, to give him a beautiful coat.

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No matter where to sell the popcorn, it contains vegetable butter made from hydrogenated vegetable oil. The big lumps of white solid fat we see at popcorn stands are margarine. Margarine contains trans-fatty acids, which are very harmful to human health, greatly increasing the risk of heart disease, diabetes, and has even been linked to old milk dementia and infertility.

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