—Lancaster Farming, Saturday May 13. 1972
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More Food Uses for
Animal Fats Promised
A fat with the properties of
more expensive imported fats
used in confections is one of the
potential products made possible
by the fractionation of tallow,
USDA scientists reported.
Tallow (beef fat) has been
separated by this process into
three fractions which at room
temperature are hard sohd (15
per cent), plastic solid (20 per
cent), and liquid (65 per cent).
The plastic solid fraction is
compatible with cocoa butter,
and has one of this imported fat’s
most valuable properties-it
remains solid at room tem
perature but melts at body
temperature. Candy coatings
made with such a fat melt in the
mouth without leaving a waxy
sensation. It also shrinks when
molded, another advantage in
candymaking
A paper describing the tallow
fractionation and suggesting
Farm Vacation
Directories Ready
Directories of farms which
take vacationers are being
distributed by the State
Agriculture Department.
The directories, published
annually by the Department, list
81 farms accepting guests.
American plan prices for
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weekly per person; prices for
children are lower.
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potential uses for the three
fractions was presented before a
joint meeting of the American Oil
Chemists’ Society and the Japan
Oil Chemists’ Society. The paper
was prepared by F.E. Luddy, J.
W. Hampson, S.F.Herb, and Dr.
H. L. Rothbart, research
chemists at the Eastern
marketing and nutrition research
laboratory of USDA’s
Agricultural Research Service
(ARS) in Philadelphia.
Experiments are now un
derway to explore the utility of
the other two fractions of tallow
produced by this process, the
liquid and hard solid fractions.
The liquid fraction has properties
that suggest its application as a
salad or cooking oil. There is also
the possibility that the solid and
liquid fractions might be blended
together (or that the solid
fraction might be blended with
another oil) to make plastic
shortenings or margarine-like
boating and tennis. Vacationing
children will find cats, calves,
chickens, colts, goats, horses and
beef steers on most farms. Many
of the farms invite guests to help
with chores such as gathering
eggs, milking cows and picking
fruit.
Directories can be obtained by
writing to: Farm Vacations,
Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture, 2301 N. Cameron St.,
Harrisburg Pa. 17120 or Travel
Vacation Bureau, Pennsylvania
Department of Commerce,
Harrisburg, Pa. 17120.
A. B. C. GROFF, INC.
New Holland
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prodcts. Such products could be
useful for specialty food uses,
where particular
physicochemical properties
could be provided as required by
controlling the proportions of
each fraction used.
Laboratory-scale frac
tionations lead ARS chemists to
believe that the process could be
carried out economically on a
large scale. Commercial frac
tionation of tallow could have
important economic implications
for the livestock industry.
Between five and six billion
pounds of beef fat are produced
annually in the U.S. Most of this
is potentially edible, but only
about a tenth of it now goes into
edible products, mainly shor
tenings and spreads. The rest is
diverted to “inedible” tallow
markets, and about half of this
is exported.
By opening up new markets for
edible tallow, this process could
improve the livestock industry’s
return on this byproduct. Fur
thermore, specialty fats derived
from tallow as a result of frac
tionation should command a
higher price than even today’s
edible tallow.
Work is now in process to
improve the tallow-fractionation
process. In the meantime, the
products of the fractionation are
being evaluated for further
commercial exploitation.
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