Beef tallow is healthier than the trans fat veg oils (ie hydrogenated veg oils) they currently use.
HYDROGENATED vegetable oils are absolutely evil.
I doublechecked this. Only 3.5 g of 19 g of fat is saturated. (Hydrogenation is a process of making fat saturated. All trans fat is saturated.) Of course, trans fat is waaay worse than naturally saturated fat, so any trans fat is terrible.
It’s unfortunate. Mono-unsaturated fat (Fat that can only receive one more hydrogen atom per molecule before its completely saturated) is actually the healthiest, and McDonald’s uses 9 g of mono-unsaturated fat. But again... any trans fat is pure poison. And their saturated fat content does come largely from hydrogenated soybean oil.
There’s nothing unhealthy at all about canola or soybean oil. Despite urban legends about canola being some sort of frankenfood, the name is used just because the plant’s older name had a nasty alternate meaning: rape. Yeah, canola comes from rape. “Rape oil” doesn’t look good on the ingredients. Even the less accurate “Rapeseed oil” doesn’t look good.
OK, so you get a few more calories with the old beef tallow.
Now you get cancer.