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Mamaghani said flexitarians are their target market — people who might be described as semi-vegetarian. Alejandro Marangoni, Health and Aging Canada research chair, said one of the biggest factors for consumers with all meat alternatives is price.

The meat alternative market has continued to grow, he noted, though not at the rate venture capitalists would like. He predicted the mostly likely and best place for cultivated fat-injected meat alternatives is in fast food.

With mounting environmental pressures and a growing population, he said alternative meats could present a very helpful solution. But it all depends on how cheaply makers can create them and how much consumers are willing to pay.

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In this context, tallow is animal fat that conforms to certain technical criteria, including its melting point. Commercial tallow commonly contains fat derived from other animals, such as lard from pigs , or even from plant sources. The solid material remaining after rendering is called cracklings , greaves, or graves.

In the soap industry and among soap-making hobbyists , the name tallowate is used informally to refer to soaps made from tallow. Sodium tallowate , for example, is obtained by reacting tallow with sodium hydroxide lye, caustic soda or sodium carbonate washing soda.

It consists chiefly of a variable mixture of sodium salts of fatty acids , such as oleic and palmitic. The fatty acid content of tallow is: [5].

Tallow is used mainly in producing soap and animal feed. A significant use of tallow is for the production of shortening.

It is also one of the main ingredients of the Native American food pemmican. With a smoke point of °F °C , tallow is traditionally used in deep frying and was preferred for this use until the rise in popularity of plant oils for frying. Greaves also graves or cracklings is the fibrous matter remaining from rendering, [1] typically pressed into cakes and used for animal feed , especially for dogs and hogs, or as fish bait.

Tallow can be used for the production of biodiesel in much the same way as oils from plants are currently used. The United States Air Force has experimented successfully with the use of beef tallow in aviation biofuels.

During five days of flight testing from August 23 to 27, , at Edwards Air Force Base , California , a U. Tallow also has a use in printmaking, where it is combined with bitumen and applied to metal print plates to provide a resistance to acid etching.

The use of trace amounts of tallow as an additive to the substrate used in polymer banknotes came to light in November Notes issued in 24 countries including Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom were found to be affected, leading to objections from vegans and members of some religious communities.

Tallow once was widely used to make molded candles before more convenient wax varieties became available—and for some time after since they continued to be a cheaper alternative. For those too poor even to avail themselves of homemade, molded tallow candles, the "tallow dip"—a reed that had been dipped in melted tallow or sometimes a strip of burning cloth in a saucer of tallow grease—was an accessible substitute.

Such a candle was often simply called a "dip" or, because of its low cost, a "farthing dip" [16] or "penny dip". Early in the development of steam-driven piston engines, the hot vapors and liquids washed away most lubricants very quickly.

It was soon found that tallow was quite resistant to this washing. Tallow and compounds including tallow were widely used to lubricate locomotive and steamship engines at least until the s.

During World War II, the vast fleets of steam-powered ships exhausted the supply, leading to the large-scale planting of rapeseed because rapeseed oil also resisted the washing effect.

Tallow is still used in the steel rolling industry to provide the required lubrication as the sheet steel is compressed through the steel rollers. There is a trend toward replacing tallow-based lubrication with synthetic oils in rolling applications for surface cleanliness reasons.

Another industrial use is as a lubricant for certain types of light engineering work, such as cutting threads on electrical conduit. Specialist cutting compounds are available, but tallow is a traditional lubricant that is easily available for cheap and infrequent use.

The use of tallow or lard to lubricate rifles was the spark that started the Indian Mutiny of To load the new Pattern Enfield Rifle , the sepoys had to bite the cartridge open.

Fats and oils can be described by how 'saturated' they are, this leads to definitions such as saturated fats, mono-unsaturated, polyunsaturated etc.

Unsaturated fats Typically liquid at room temperature. They differ from saturated fats in that their chemical structure contains one or more double bonds. They can be further categorized as:. Monounsaturated fats: This type of unsaturated fat contains only one double bond in its structure.

Monounsaturated fats are typically liquid at room temperature and include canola oil and olive oil. Polyunsaturated fats: This type of unsaturated fat contains two or more double bonds in their structure. They are liquid at room temperature. Polyunsaturated fats include safflower oil, sunflower oil, and corn oil.

This was wrong, very very wrong. Unlike traditional fats butter, tallow, lard, olive oil, etc. In fact, they were practically non-existent until the early s. Vegetable oils are bad because they contain very high levels of polyunsaturated fats PUFAs.

Our body needs fat for rebuilding cells and hormone production. And it can only use what we give it. Polyunsaturated fats are highly unstable. They oxidize easily. These oxidized fats cause inflammation and mutation in cells. That oxidation is linked to all sorts of issues from cancer, heart disease, endometriosis, PCOS, etc.

So what about saturated fats from animal sources? Well here's why we need them in our diet. The addition of saturated fat to the diet reduces the levels of a substance called lipoprotein a that correlates strongly with risk for heart disease.

According to one of the foremost research experts in dietary fats and human health, Dr. Mary Enig, Ph. Early in the development of steam-driven piston engines, the hot vapors and liquids washed away most lubricants very quickly.

It was soon found that tallow was quite resistant to this washing. Tallow and compounds including tallow were widely used to lubricate locomotive and steamship engines at least until the s. During World War II, the vast fleets of steam-powered ships exhausted the supply, leading to the large-scale planting of rapeseed because rapeseed oil also resisted the washing effect.

Tallow is still used in the steel rolling industry to provide the required lubrication as the sheet steel is compressed through the steel rollers. There is a trend toward replacing tallow-based lubrication with synthetic oils in rolling applications for surface cleanliness reasons.

Another industrial use is as a lubricant for certain types of light engineering work, such as cutting threads on electrical conduit. Specialist cutting compounds are available, but tallow is a traditional lubricant that is easily available for cheap and infrequent use. The use of tallow or lard to lubricate rifles was the spark that started the Indian Mutiny of To load the new Pattern Enfield Rifle , the sepoys had to bite the cartridge open.

It was believed that the paper cartridges that were standard issue with the rifle were greased with lard pork fat , which was regarded as unclean by Muslims , or tallow cow fat , which is incompatible with Hindu dietary laws.

Tallow, along with beeswax , was also used in the lubricant for American Civil War ammunition used in the Springfield rifled musket. A combination of mutton tallow, paraffin wax and beeswax is still used as a patch or projectile lubricant in present-day black powder arms.

Tallow is used to make a biodegradable motor oil. Tallow is also used in traditional bell foundry , as a separation for the false bell when casting. Tallow can be used as flux for soldering.

Mutton tallow is widely used as starch, lubricant and softener in textile manufacturing. Pretreatment processes in textiles include a process called sizing. In sizing, a chemical is necessary to provide required strength to yarns mounted on the loom.

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Want to discuss? Please read our Commenting Policy first. If you get Global News from Instagram or Facebook - that will be changing. Find out how you can still connect with us. In recent years, meat alternative companies have debuted their products to acclaim and interest.

Lab-grown meat and plant-based meat can have a lower ecological footprint and involve no animal suffering. However, it can be hard to replace the taste of meat. A Montreal company says it has a solution to make the faux burgers and nuggets more palatable: add animal fat.

Mamaghani, co-founder of meat alternative company Genuine Taste, said they harvested cells from an anesthetized cow who woke up afterwards and now grow animal fat cells in a lab.

He stressed there is no animal cruelty and told Global News they can engineer the cells to be healthier, creating good fats where there once were trans fats. He said he hopes it can unlock bigger conversations around alternative meat products, especially plant-based meats.

Using an animal product, even from a living animal, prevents vegans from eating it and potentially some vegetarians. Mamaghani said flexitarians are their target market — people who might be described as semi-vegetarian.

Alejandro Marangoni, Health and Aging Canada research chair, said one of the biggest factors for consumers with all meat alternatives is price.

The meat alternative market has continued to grow, he noted, though not at the rate venture capitalists would like. He predicted the mostly likely and best place for cultivated fat-injected meat alternatives is in fast food.

With mounting environmental pressures and a growing population, he said alternative meats could present a very helpful solution. But it all depends on how cheaply makers can create them and how much consumers are willing to pay.