It's Good For You! (Marmite)

Member Name: Recon

Product:	Marmite
Date:	31/01/08 (498 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Good for you, tasty, unique?

Disadvantages: Some hate it. Excess is sickly and lots more butter needed.

I love it. You either love it or hate it so I must love it and must rate it 5 stars. But seriously, I think it's lovely. It has a very unique and distinct taste to it, which boosts it above other spreads. It tastes great with loads of different things
too...cheese, pepper, onions; you just have to try for yourself!

The first experimental extracts for Marmite were made in November 1902, but it took a further 2 years to 'perfect the flavour'. Marmite has been going for over a century now! People soon realised that it had the richest source of vitamin B, which keep nerves, the brain and the digestion system in working order. So people, Marmite is actually good for you... really! Sales have topped 23.5 million pounds, making Marmite one of the UK's number one selling savoury spreads, so obviously not everyone hates it! The standard size jar weighs 125g, with a suggested 31 servings making an adult serving 4g. It is recommended also that children have a 2g serving.

Marmite comes in a dark jar with the marmite logo bang in the middle, dreaded by some. I can see why some people hate it, because the flavour is very strong and I can even understand why it is disliked by some because the flavour isn't exactly sensational, but I like it. They come in different sizes including a squeezable version, which is much easier and quicker than the jar!

They include some celery extract, which may give some people a bad reaction, so this is just a warning. Apart from that it's all good! Marmite is very low in fat and sugar, and includes a good source of vitamin B! Here are the ingredients:

* Yeast Extract
* Salt
* Vegetable Extract
* Niacin
* Thiamin
* Spice Extracts
* Riboflavin
* Folic Acid
* Celery Extract
* Vitamin B12

All the different ingredients can be read about on the www.marmite.co.uk site! Yes they have their very own site devoted to Marmite! You can either join the love it or hate it fan club, and after choosing whether you love it or hate it at the homepage, you can check out great 'sarnies' to make. Some of them I must try, as they sound lovely!
It is true that you should add a good amount of butter in comparison to marmite to your bread because the taste of marmite is very strong indeed! The last thing you want to do is accidently squeeze loads onto your sandwich, as it tastes like poison when excess is added! In case you didn't know, it is a yeast extract.

Interestingly, people actually did a test to work out how many slices of toast marmite could really spread on! They managed to evenly spread it over 66 slices of toast with the same amount on each one by using the same method. It obviously wasn't totally accurate, but was as accurate as you can get without using machines. The thing is, the three of them had to eat every slice after! However, the birds joined in and liked it too! You can read all about this on the site here:

http://www.geej.com/Marmite/

Well, that's my review for you. Marmite is actually good for you, and rather tasty. It tastes great with cheese, pepper and cucumber. I would also recommend that you use sufficient butter or it doesn't spread, but more importantly tastes horrible by itself with an excess amount.

Try it or you will never find out if you like it!

Thanks for reading,

- Recon -

Summary: Try it! You never know, you might love it or you may hate it!