Marmite - A Healthy Spread for You!

Marmite - you may not have heard of this unless you are from the UK. It is kind of a "Love-it or Hate-it" product ! The most common use for marmite is as a spread on toast or in sandwiches. I am a Marmite lover but years ago I forgot to tell my new husband how it was suppossed to be used...needless to say for many many years he hated it as he spread it on his bread just as if it were jelly! I, of course was horrified as I saw a month's supply of Marmite being used in one sitting!  So be careful - SPREAD THINLY!!!

From an interview with Paul Ridout, a British backpacker kidnapped in India by Kashmiri separatists. The Guardian, 1994. "The first thing he had done after arriving home was to eat some Marmite on toast. 'It was pretty good. It's just one of those things - you get out of the country and it's all you can think about.' "

Marmite is also an excellent source of B vitamins, completely vegetarian, is a low fat food and is very low in sugar. See the Nutritional Contents of Marmite:

 

Children in Britain are generally fed it from a very early age, and most never grow out of it. When I was growing up we refered to them as "Marmite Soldiers" - bread spread with marmite, sliced!! Marmite has a high B-vitamin content -B1, B2, Folic Acid, B12, as well as riboflavin and niacin—and as such is very healthy. (The vitamin-B complex helps prevent anemia.). B vitamins are water soluble, which means that they are harder for your body to store so you need to get them from your food regularly.

Swap out unhealthy snacks when pregnant for a slice or two of bread and Marmite. Apparently, a mere four slices of toast and Marmite would provide a pregnant lady with all the folic acid she needs!


If you live in the USA, and,  like me you long for a "fix" of Marmite you can purchase it at the
I Love Marmite Amazon Store

So just sit back and enjoy and tell us all about it!