
Beef tallow
Rendered fat from cattle, dense with energy, stable at heat, edible and enduring.
- Nutrient profile: rich in saturated and monounsaturated fats, stearic acid, palmitic acid, oleic acid; vitamins A, D, E, K (fat-soluble, bioavailable); conjugated linoleic acid (CLA).
- Ancestral role: core cooking fat, candle fuel, skin balm, leather conditioner. Keeps for months without rancidity.
- Healing properties: strengthens cell membranes, stabilizes hormones, fuels brain and immune system, repairs skin barrier.
- Industrial warning: supermarket “beef fat” often bleached, deodorized, hydrogenated, or laced with feedlot residues (hormones, antibiotics). Frozen bricks often oxidized. Never the same as clean, grass-fed rendered suet.
Beef tallow is fireproof nourishment. Feedlot tallow is chemical trash.