in our local health food shop they have two types of vegan margarine spread
one is soya spread and the other sunflower spread.

would anyone kindly be able to tell a novice briefly the relative merits of
the two different types please. many thanks.

According to >:
>in our local health food shop they have two types of vegan margarine spread
>one is soya spread and the other sunflower spread.
>
>would anyone kindly be able to tell a novice briefly the relative merits of
>the two different types please. many thanks.

Is this the Pure brand? If you shop around, there are actually
4 types (olive + organic being the others). Iirc:

Sunflower: cheap, tasteless
Soya: health benefits against osteoperosis, perhaps?
Olive: health benefits against heart disease, etc
Organic: Insert-preferred-organic-argument-here
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