Posted on 08/15/2025 6:16:32 AM PDT by Red Badger
Lard is high in saturated fat, which has been linked to increased LDL (”bad”) cholesterol and heart disease risk in some studies.
Moderation is key: As with any fat, moderation is important. Excessive consumption of saturated fat can be detrimental to health.
Source matters: The quality of the lard matters. Pasture-raised, organic lard is generally considered better than conventional lard.
In conclusion: Lard can be a good addition to a balanced diet when consumed in moderation and sourced from healthy, sustainable farms.
It’s not a health food, but it’s not the enemy some make it out to be. It’s a matter of balance and mindful consumption, according to a food blog.
Boiled and baked are okay
Rinse potatoes. Microwave for three to five minutes. Slice into halves or quarters. Drizzle EV olive oil, season with season salt. Serve and eat.
Healthy prepared
very badly designed study because it assumes all frying oils are equal, with no distinction made between healthy oils like olive or avocado or healthy animal fat oils like tallow vs garbage oils like cottonseed oil and soybean oil ... i mean, whoever thought that cottonseed oil is something that would be fit for human consumption?
at any rate, they haven’t proved whether the unhealthiness is from the cooking method or the cooking ingredients ...
Two observations. In countries where white rice is a staple how does the diabetes risk compare with the U.S.? Second did the study take into account that people who are eating French fries at fast food restaurants are likely having them with soda, and such people could have multiple risk factors such as obesity and very low fiber diets?
Those other potatoes are likely associated with a full balanced meal that includes healthful meats or seafood.
PS. I may be wrong about where these French fries were eaten.
Are these the same scientists who claimed Covid-19 would kill fifty million and invented a vax?
If it is the frying that’s bad, the issue is probably carmelization.... buy I’m still hugely doubtful because while Maillard (sp?) reactions aren’t great for cancer, no-one has ever tied them to diabetes.
It’s in a 4.5 Qt enamal cast iron dutch oven I par-boil in. I don’t taste any off flavor, so I think it’s fine.
Chat GPT:
1. Chris Voigt – The Potato Spokesman
Role: Executive Director of the Washington State Potato Commission
Challenge: Ate nothing but potatoes for 60 days in 2010
Purpose: To promote the nutritional value of potatoes and counter low-carb diet stigma
Diet Details:
~20 potatoes per day
No toppings, oils, or sides
Consulted with a doctor beforehand
Outcome: Lost weight, improved cholesterol, and proved potatoes are rich in fiber, potassium, and vitamin C
2. Andrew Taylor – The “Spud Fit” Guy
Location: Australia
Challenge: Ate only potatoes for an entire year in 2016
Motivation: To overcome food addiction and reset his relationship with eating
Diet Details:
Included white and sweet potatoes
Used herbs and soy milk for flavor
Took B12 supplements
Outcome:
Lost over 117 pounds
Improved cholesterol, blood pressure, and mental health
Developed the “Spud Fit Challenge” to help others with food dependency
I don’t have to look, it will be the one I like best.
Any excess of fatty and sugary salty fast foods and lack of physical activities are all going to l33ad to health problems.
IMHO eating fries, drinking sugary drinks and smoking tobacco are all not great but only become a precursor to health problems when taken in excess.
. How about the truth, being fat and lazy are the leading causes of T2D. Doesnt matter what junk food you eat. Its all bad in large quantities.
“ Most of the fast food places use seed oil, not lard.”:5 Guys uses peanut oil.
In Ohio something like 78% of the drivers are speeding, but excess speed is only noted (not even a factor) in something less than 50% of accidents. Meaning that speeders are less likely to be in accidents.
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Thank you for the tip. I will check it out.
Does it make us Quack?
tHEY HAD BEEF TALLOW ON SALE AT cOSTCO LAST WEEK.
fIRST TIME I’VE seen it there.
No but I did go quackers briefly
If you do try it, you will find out why McDonald’s fries were so good at one time. We used to stop at McDonald’s just to get fries- now i can’t stand the taste of them because they cook em in seed oils now because they claimed it was hea,thier- big mistake when they switched.
Anyways, I think you’ll like it if you try it. We cooked a duc,,once, and put small golf ball sized potatoes in bottom of pan where the duck fat would drip to, and wow! What a difference it made.
I think the issue was that folks were frying everything in lard, AL. Day every day practically. I know down south they use a lot of,it. We hardly ever fry,anything, but when we do, it’s a real treat to use good stuff like tallow and duck fat to fry in, and we use it sparingly, like maybe the amount of a pad of butter in pan- we hardly ever deep fry anything. Once in awhile we do the French fries with a goodly,amount, and then strain the oil, but. Mostly we just coat pan to keep foods from sticking.
I will say however we aren’t nearly as active as we used to be, so it might take less to do damage these days.
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