<p>Seafood contains iodine.
[Iodine</a> in Food](<a href=“iodine4health.com”>iodine4health.com)</p>
<p>From what I understand, most healthy adults do not need supplemental iodine. In any event, for person whom indeed require additional iodine intake, I think doctors still prescribe the stuff, or perhaps it’s available over-the-counter.</p>
<p>I grew up on butter - my dad still calls margarine “oleo”. He never allowed it.
H grew up on magarine. Shortly after we got married, I brought spritz cookies to his house for Christmas. His youngest sister had also made a batch. She tasted one of mine and couldn’t understand why they tasted so much better.
She now uses butter in her cookie recipes instead of margarine…</p>
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<p>There’s just no comparison: either you bite into a cookie, palmier, biscuit, piece of yellow cake or whatever and get that wonderful hit of butter flavor, or you bite in and get a chemicalish Crisco taste. </p>
<p>This Christmas I’m going to try using coconut oil for some cookies. I’m expecting deliciousness, though possibly it might have too much coconutty flavor for, say, a mint cookie.</p>
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<p>Y’all are killin’ me. :)</p>
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<p>That depends on the iodine content of the local soil and hence in the crops grown there. Prior to adding iodine to salt goiters were very common in the US, even in adults. The Great Lakes area was known as the Goiter Belt. And Appalachia wasn’t much better.</p>
<p>Adding iodine pretty much abolished that in the US. But goiter is still pretty common today in some other countries that have iodine-poor soil and do not supplement their diets.</p>