"Since late 1970s, commercials for Fleischmann???s and Shedd???s Spread Country Crock implied that margarine was good for you because it contained no cholesterol. (This was back when we knew high cholesterol was a problem but did not yet know that high-cholesterol food did not necessarily cause high cholesterol in people???hence, all the confusion about eggs.) Margarine also didn???t have saturated" . . . .