The first commercial margarine was produced in 1869 by French chemist Hippolyte Mège-Mouriez as an alternative to butter which had become increasingly expensive. Mège-Mouriez patented a process for manufacturing margarine that involved blending beef tallow with milk and coloring the mixture to resemble butter. Margarine production began spreading across Europe in the late 1800s as the... https://prachicmi.livepositively.com/margarine-history-production-and-nutritional-insights/new=1