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Lard is an animal fat produced from the fatty or otherwise unusable parts of pig carcasses. It is used for cooking, commonly used in British, German, Polish, Mexican and Japanese cuisine. Pure lard is especially useful for cooking since it produces very little smoke when heated. Toward the late 20th century Lard began to be regarded as less healthy than vegetable oils such as olive and sunflower.

Lard was widely used as a butter substitute during World War II when butter was unavailable. As a waste product of porkPork is meat from the pig. While it is one of the most common meats eaten by Chinese and Europeans, it is considered inedible under Islamic and Orthodox Jewish law. Varieties of pork Pork from the haunch of the pig is called ham. Other parts include pork production, lard has historically been cheaper than vegetable oils and thus featured prominently in poor people's diet until the industrial revolution made vegetable oils more affordable. Rendered lard has also been used to produce cakes of soapThis article is about a common cleaning mixture. For other uses of the word Soap, see Soap (disambiguation). Soap is a surfactant cleaning mixture used for personal or minor cleaning. It usually comes in solid moulded form. In the developed world, synthet.

The highest grade of lard, known as 'leaf lard', is obtained from the fat that surrounds the kidneyThe kidneys are bean-shaped excretory organs in vertebrates. Part of the urinary system, the kidneys filter wastes (especially urea) from the blood and excrete them, along with water, as urine. The medical field that studies the kidneys and diseases affecs. The lowest grade is obtained from around the small intestineIn biology the small intestine is the part of the gastrointestinal tract between the stomach and the large intestine. In humans over 5 years old it is about 7m long. It is divided into three structural parts: duodenum, jejunum and ileum . Food from the sts.

Each 100 gramFor other meanings of gram see gram (disambiguation). The gram (also spelt gramme is a unit of measurement of mass, and is defined in the SI system of units as one thousandth of a kilogram. See 1 E -3 kg for comparisons with other masses. The symbol for gs of Lard contains the following:

• 902 CalorieIn physics, a calorie (abbreviated cal is a unit of energy that equals the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one gram of water by 1 degree Celsius, at a pressure of 1 atm. This amount of heat depends somewhat on the initial temperatures
• 39.2g Saturated fat
• 95.0mg Cholesterol
• 45.10g Monounsaturated fatty acids
• 11.20g Polyunsaturated fatty acids
• 0.60mg Vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol)
• 0.11mg Zinc
• 0.20mg Selenium