It happened that vitamin K was turned into margarine under the hot hand.
There are different forms of vitamin K. For us, the one we eat with plant foods is more important. This is the so-called vitamin K1 (1).
Green vegetables like broccoli are the most vitamin K1. Literally, the more green chlorophyll, the more vitamin. In some pale Iceberg salad, it will already be noticeably less.
Inside vegetables, vitamin K is encrusted in the chloroplast membrane, which is filled with chlorophyll.
In addition to the vegetables themselves, vitamin K1 is also found in vegetable oils. This is understandable, because vegetable oils are made from plants. For the same reason, different spreads and mayonnaises also contain vitamin K1.
Due to the fact that vitamin K1 in greens is tightly screwed to chloroplasts, our body has to try to get the vitamin out of there.
Vitamin K is absorbed much better from vegetable oils than from vegetables. Much better. Probably because there it floats in its pure form and it is not necessary to pick it out from some membranes.
Evil tongues say that this is more likely due to the fat itself. Like vitamin K, fat-soluble, so it is absorbed together with oil.
Some people immediately wanted to score on greens and consume vitamin K with butter. Because it tastes better.
But it was not so... It turned out that there are unexpected obstacles along the way.
In modern food production, simple vegetable oils are not too fond of. Those constantly strive to spread into a puddle and do not hold their shape at all.
It is much more profitable to turn these oils into hard margarine. For this, the oil is subjected to nasty hydrogenation, after which it acquires pleasant consumer properties, but turns into trans fat, which slowly spoils the arteries for the consumer.
It turned out that the valuable clean vitamin K1 floating in vegetable oil also gets into the batch and turns into hydrogenated vitamin K. Have you heard about this?
Vitamin K itself is fatty. Here the food industry accidentally walked along it with a hydrogenation roller. Side effect.
At first they did not pay attention to this, but then it turned out that hydrogenated vitamin K is poorly absorbed. That is, it loses all its fat charm.
Such a freak is no better absorbed than from green vegetables. That would be half the trouble, but the freak also did not act like normal in our body. There were stories that instead of strengthening the bones, which is expected from vitamin K, this margarine-like vitamin only spoils the bones.
In short, eat vegetables and don't eat trans fats.
