Posted on 10/22/2019 5:17:15 AM PDT by NOBO2012
This will most likely be the best news you’ll hear all week: “Pork Fat is Officially One of the World’s Most Nutritious Foods.”
Scientists analyzed over 1,000 raw foods to rank how nutritious they are, and they discovered that pork fat is up there with the likes of chia seeds, almonds and beet greens.
“Pork fat was given the nutritional score of 73. It bested other healthy food items like squash, salmon, and walnuts.”
And it’s far and away tastier. The study producing these surprising nutritional results was originally conducted in 2015 but just like other information the establishment doesn’t like, it was suppressed until recently when it fell into the hands of an unauthorized source. They published a list of the top 100 nutritious foods.
Here are the top ten:
1. Almonds, 97
2. Cherimoya (a type of fruit), 96
3. Ocean perch (a deep-water fish), 89
4. Flatfish, 88
5. Chia seeds, 85
6. Pumpkin seeds, 84
7. Swiss chard, 78
8. Pork fat, 73
9. Beet greens, 70
10. Snapper, 69
To be clear, #8 can be found in fatty cuts of the animal like bacon, short ribs and pork belly…
Pork belly burnt ends
but we are essentially talking about…lard.
That’s right, good old fashioned lard.
The fat that “experts” for decades have been telling us to avoid like the plague. The fat that makes the best biscuits,
pie crusts
(don’t throw the scraps away, they make nutritious snacks)
Jam-filled tarts made with leftover lard pastry
and Mexican delights.
Carnitas, cooked in lard, in crunchy taco shells, cooked in lard. Probably served with refried beans, made with lard.
This is all so inspiring I think I’ll gather some nutritious ingredients together this weekend and make some delicious donuts fried in this healthful fat.
Or maybe I’ll go whole hog and bake the most nutritious dish on earth - a glorious pork pie!
However you decide to get your pig on, even if it’s only by watching your favorite team hauling the pigskin up and down the field, do celebrate the liberation of lard in all it’s glory. Your grandma/mom had it right all along, do not let any of that healthy bacon fat go to waste.
Now get out there and bacon-up: winter’s coming and we all need to be as strong as possible.
ADMINISTRATIOVE NOTE: I’m heading out for an artist’s workshop with my BFF so Raj will be providing your daily open thread for the next couple of days.
Posted from: MOTUS A.D.
I’ve been buying bacon and pork shoulder from a heritage breeder lately. It has more fat than the typical grocery store pork. The bacon is on a different level, especially the drippings.
This further justifies the additional expense :)
My dogs aren’t big fans of their dry food until I drip the bacon grease on top. After that they devour the kibble.
My MIL told me about a hermit who lived near their town who would eat only salt pork. When he was found deceased an autopsy was performed. The local doctor was amazed at the man’s arteries; they were clear and supple. There was no hardening or blockage.
I still like eggs cooked in the fat from cooked bacen.
I just wish it didn’t take so long to cook bacen and eggs.
I remember camping with dad. He would dump a couple of pounds of bacon in the skillet and stir occasionally. Remove the bacon and basically poach the eggs in bacon grease. The absolute bestest eggs ever.
No matter what kind of oil or butter you use, nothing beats bacon grease, for the best taste.
My Sicilian Grandmother used hot bacon grease for a salad dressing {with a tad of vinegar} for dandelions and a Sicilian bitter green that she called "ladeck" and I've never been able to find out the real name of this bitter green leafed plant.
She brought the seeds from the old country, and we ate it for my entire youth, but when she died, my mother never liked it, and so it went away.
The healthiest food of all in my opinion is Liverwurst ,, you get all the pork fat goodness and the organ meat vitamins and minerals...
Check the packages of lard for hydrogenated fat. If it is listed don’t buy. I found some on Amazon that was just pork fat, non-hydrogenated.
Dang you ;-P
Sicilians eat cabbage and noodles? I thought that was Eastern European.
I’m not a big liver anything any more because of all the chemicals used in animal feed, and so forth. The liver stores and cleans the blood of bad chemicals. Back in the day when liver was normal and not a chemical waste storage unit I liked the old (what’s her name)? Adele something or other, lady who urged starting the day with a liver and eggs plus animal kidney breakfast. That with an egg or two, plus some hashbrowns to soak up the egg yolk started most of my days back in the fifties and sixties.
Pork fat also makes GREAT SOAP! No wonder we, as kids, were so clean!
I post 18 pounds on keto. I eat a ton of bacon.
My mom and aunt always had a coffee cup of bacon drippings sitting on the counter to use when baking or making fried foods in the skillet. Sadly they both died of heart disease, mom at 93, her sister at 96. Neither ever used anything, but real butter and whole milk and cream. I’ve been moving back to that in recent years using grass fed, pastured raised beef, pork, chicken and their eggs.
Don’t know if I’m any healthier, but the food taste great.
How did calf liver not make the list?
I ENVY YOU. = I really miss THE COUNTRY MERCHANT’s fresh/smoked pork items, since he passed away & his widow was unable to continue in business.
(I was one of Elmer’s customers for 2 plus decades & his ham/bacon/sausage, made from his home-raised pigs, was WONDERFUL.)
Yours, TMN78247
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