Fat

Fat represents animal fat which is laid under skin, in an abdominal cavity. Functionally it is a nutritious stock of an animal and consists preferential of triglycerides. Also it contains a set of the saturated zhirnokislotny remains.

Eat fat in a fresh, boiled, smoked look. Popularly also fat salty and salty and smoked which received the name "salted pork fat".

Fat caloric content

Caloric content of fat is quite high – in 100 g about 770-810 calories. It is the main reason that many women prefer not to eat it in general.

It is a little history

Interestingly, who began the first there is a lard? It is considered to be that it is the Ukrainian national product, but whether so it? It appears, from antiquity knew about fat also other people. For example, it is possible to find mentioning about this food stuff in the Armenian sources dated the 7th century BC. In Ancient China pigs were also grown up, to this day there like to eat fat and pork. Nevertheless, it can be considered the real homeland Italy, to be exact, Ancient Rome. In Rome there were many slaves who should be fed with something, and fat just is very nourishing and inexpensive food.

Throughout many centuries fat was considered as food of poor people, and meat was destiny of rich men. As fat needed to be reserved, people learned to prepare, freeze, smoke, prepare correctly it salty fat. With it began to prepare various dishes, and at each people it is possible to find the recipes with addition of this food stuff: at Ukrainians, Czechs, Poles, British, Russians, Germans, Americans and Belarusians. At Muslims pork is considered a dirty product therefore it is not eaten. If to think, then it is possible to find in it practical roots – owing to hot climate to store fat in these countries always it was problematic.

In Russia, since 13th century, fat became one of key products of food. Mongols who collected extremely high tribute from people came to these times of troubles to Russia. It concerned everything, and food stuffs and living creatures in the house. They only did not touch pigs – because of short legs they were difficult to be overtaken.

In the Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian villages fat was always respected and loved: with onions and black bread, a radish, horse-radish and mustard, it was always convenient to be hired with itself, on hunting or fishing. Any feast also did not do without fat. It is known that it prevents bystry intoxication and together with alcohol from fat the fats which are contained in it are perfectly acquired.

Structure

Despite the high caloric content of lard, in its structure useful substances are in such combinations that it is acquired by an organism much easier, than butter. It contains about 88% of valuable animal fats which contain saturated and unsaturated fatty acids, cholesterol. Also there are proteins and vitamins A, E, D, C, groups B, PP and such minerals as magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, zinc, iron, selenium, manganese, copper, calcium.

Fat contains a lot of arachidonic acid, so necessary for the person for normal work of many bodies and production of important hormones. At its shortage often the person has inflammatory processes. For this reason doctors consider that the advantage of fat, first of all, consists in presence at it of arachidonic acid. It does not contain in vegetable products, and in butter it is nearly 10 times less, than in fat.

Also the advantage of fat consists in such unsaturated fatty acids which are contained in it: linolenic, olein, linoleic so this food stuff is much more useful to beauty and health, than the most qualitative sausages.

Treatment by lard

Unsalted and salty fat with success is used for a long time in cookery. But in addition it with success is used in traditional medicine for prevention and treatment of many diseases.

Use lard at catarrhal diseases. At bronchitis, for example, prepare the mix consisting of broth of a root of a mallow and visceral fat. Legs and hands at catarrhal diseases, joint pains rub with a pork smalets.

To stop inflammatory process at mastitis, on a breast impose thin slices of old fat. Also it is an effective remedy at the becoming wet eczema. For this purpose prepare the following mix: 2 tbsps of the unsalted melted fat, 2 ovalbumins, 1 l of juice of a celandine and 100 g of the crushed nightshade grass. It is necessary to infuse the received mix before use three days then it is possible to grease affected areas.

Fat after a serious illness helps to be recovered, especially at exhaustion. For this purpose prepare such mix: 2 tbsps of honey, 1 Art. of l of butter and 1 tbsp of the fat kindled on the water bath.

The hardly healing wounds treat mix from beeswax and unsalted melted fat. And at varicosity at early stages the advantage of fat helps to stop a disease.

At calcaneal spurs mix from acetic essence, crude egg and unsalted fat well helps. It helps and at tooth pain. It is for this purpose rather simple to put a slice of salty fat between a painful tooth and a gingiva.

Besides, it is considered that fat is fine prophylactic from oncological diseases as promotes removal from an organism of toxins and radionuclides.

Harm of fat

Along with numerous useful properties of lard it is possible to allocate also a number of its harmful qualities.

First, harm of fat is that from it it is possible to gain weight very quickly. Our day diet consists not only of fat, but also from other products therefore there is a risk to consume much bigger amount of fats and calories, than it is necessary. Day norm of fat – no more than 50 g.

Besides, if at its preparation not to follow the safety rule, then harm of fat becomes obvious as the high probability of infection with parasites appears.

Has fat and a number of contraindications. So, for example, it is contraindicated to patient to use it with pancreatitis and cholecystitis as diseases can become aggravated.