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Comment by anon84873628

3 hours ago

If that industrial prepared food switches to tallow I still have doubts about how much it is reused and what chemical changes it goes through...

Absolutely agree. I don't think I'd want industrially prepared stuff fried in tallow either.

There is a chemical distinction in that tallow is mostly saturated fat which doesn't oxidize nearly as easily, so it might be less bad to fry with or re-fry with. But still.

  • saturated fat is bad however:

    > A 2020 Cochrane meta-analysis of roughly 59,000 participants across 15 randomized controlled trials found that replacing saturated fat with polyunsaturated fat reduced combined cardiovascular events by 21%.

    …about same difference as taking statins (per the article)