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Fats & oils

Tallow

Tallow is an animal fat. Cooks use it for deep frying.

Category
Fats & oils
Part used
Fat

In the kitchen

How to use tallow

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Deep fry

Nutrition

What 100 g of tallow holds

Per 100 g. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.

Protein 0%Fat 100%Carbohydrate 0%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of tallow
Energy902 kcal · 3,774 kJ
Protein0 g
Fat100 g
of which saturated50 g
Carbohydrate0 g
of which sugars0 g
Fibre0 g
Sodium0 mg
Cholesterol109 mg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (food 171400), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

On the table

Dishes made with tallow

1 dish in the catalogue uses it.

  • Pemmican

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include tallow.

Family

Related forms

A kind of
animal fats and oils

Cooked together

Ingredients that go into the same catalogued dishes.
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Around the world

What tallow is called

Names in 49 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    sebo

  • French

    suif · suif brut

  • Italian

    sego

  • Portuguese

    sebo

  • German

    Talg · Unschlitt · Inselt · Ungel

  • Dutch

    talg

  • Greek

    στέαρ

  • Turkish

    donyağı · don yağı

  • Russian

    твёрдый жир

  • Polish

    łój

  • Arabic

    ودك · الودك

  • Persian

    پیه

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  • Albanian

    dhjami i viçit

  • Amharic

    ሞራ

  • Aragonese

    sebo

  • Basque

    bilgor · sebo

  • Breton

    soav

  • Bulgarian

    лой

  • Catalan

    sèu

  • Central Kurdish

    پیو

  • Chinese

    牛脂

  • Croatian

    Loj

  • Czech

    lůj

  • Danish

    talg

  • Esperanto

    sebo

  • Finnish

    tali

  • Hebrew

    חֵלֶב

  • Hungarian

    faggyú

  • Icelandic

    Tólg

  • Ido

    sebo

  • Igbo

    ịta ahịhịa

  • Indonesian

    gajih

  • Japanese

    ヘット · 牛脂

  • Kannada

    ಟ್ಯಾಲೋ · ಸ್ಯೂಟ್

  • Korean

    탤로

  • Kurdish

    پیو

  • Kyrgyz

    Тоң май

  • Lombard

    sev

  • Luxembourgish

    Ënzelt · Äisselt

  • Macedonian

    лој

  • Northern Sami

    tálga

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    talg

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    talg

  • Occitan

    Seu

  • Romanian

    seu

  • Slovak

    loj

  • Slovenian

    mast

  • Swedish

    talg · premier jus

  • Ukrainian

    Лій

Sources and credits

Data

  • GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
  • USDA FoodData Central (Foundation, SR Legacy): nutrition values (Public domain (US government work, CC0))
  • Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)

Wikidata item: Q863266