1, lard
The fragrance released by lard in cooking can improve the taste and flavor of food and make dishes more delicious. Especially when cooking and frying food, lard can add a unique flavor to food and greatly increase appetite. The high smoke point of lard means that it can remain relatively stable at high temperature and is not easy to produce smoke.
Therefore, lard is suitable for high-temperature cooking methods such as frying and frying, which can make food heated more evenly, and the fried food has crisp surface and moist interior. Lard is also rich in fat-soluble vitamins a, d, e and K.
2. Vegetable oil
Vegetable oil is a compound formed by the reaction of higher fatty acids with glycerol, which is widely distributed in nature. It is oil obtained from fruits, seeds and germ of plants, such as peanut oil, soybean oil, linseed oil, castor oil and rapeseed oil.
The main components of vegetable oil are esters of linear higher fatty acids and glycerol. Besides palmitic acid, stearic acid and oleic acid, fatty acids also contain a variety of unsaturated acids, such as erucic acid, tung oil acid and castor oil acid. Vegetable oil mainly contains minerals such as vitamin E, vitamin K, calcium, iron, phosphorus, potassium and fatty acids.
Main uses of vegetable oil:
1, edible vegetable oil
It is necessary to ensure the oil content in human diet. Edible vegetable oil is an important non-staple food for human beings, mainly used in cooking, cakes, canned food and so on. It can also be processed into vegetable oil, margarine, baking oil and so on. For human consumption.
2. Industrial vegetable oils and fats
Widely used, it is the main raw material of soap, paint, ink, rubber, tanning, textile, candle, lubricating oil, synthetic resin, cosmetics and medicine.
3. Import and export
Vegetable oil is one of the important commodities in the international market. With China's reform and opening up and the development of national economy, the variety and quantity of imported and exported vegetable oils have increased year by year. Vegetable oils exported include soybean oil, peanut oil, rapeseed oil, palm oil and castor oil, which are mainly exported to Japan, South Korea, Mongolia, the Netherlands, Russia and other countries. Imported vegetable oils include soybean oil, rapeseed oil, coconut oil, palm oil, linseed oil and castor oil, mainly from the United States, Brazil, the Netherlands, the Philippines, India, Singapore, Malaysia and other countries.
Baidu encyclopedia-lard
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