All Animal Fats

Gathers the cooking fats that are rendered from the bodies of animals or separated from milk. It includes lard, tallow, suet, schmaltz, duck fat, goose fat, bacon fat and ghee. The group does not cover vegetable oils, plant butters or manufactured fats, which have their own groups. Within the Fats and Oils subcategory it sits beside the groups Seed Oils, Tree Nut, Fruit and Palm Oils, Plant Butters, Coconut Products, Fish and Marine Oils, Margarine, Shortening and Processed Fats, and each entry is placed in the one group whose description fits it best.