Lard should be familiar to us in China, especially to the elderly. At the beginning, it was a very traditional edible oil in China, of course, it was also called meat oil. Lard is an oil extracted from pig fat oil, which should be familiar to people before 1990. Nowadays, many foods are still inseparable from the combination of lard.

However, it has been said recently that eating lard will kill you quickly. Is there really a scientific basis for this statement? In fact, this statement has two sides. There is no problem if you just eat lard properly, but if you eat too much lard, it will really affect your health. Many people should know that the high fat-energy ratio is a major reason for the high incidence of cardiovascular diseases.

However, the composition of fatty acids in oils and fats used in our daily life is different. The higher the content of saturated fatty acids and cholesterol, the greater the impact on human health. Lard is a kind of animal fat, with 40% saturated fatty acid and high cholesterol content. For the vegetable oil we usually eat, the content of saturated fatty acids such as soybean oil and peanut oil is only about 15%.

The reason why we eat lard will have an impact on our health is because saturated fatty acids are not easily decomposed by the human body, and it is easy to accumulate in the body to form fat after a long time. If people who eat lard regularly will lead to obesity, and cholesterol saturated fatty acids will soon form blood waste after entering the human body. If they accumulate in blood vessels, it will easily lead to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

However, it is harmless to lard. The saturated fatty acids contained in it will be more tolerant after heating, so when cooking with lard, it will not produce some carcinogens through various chemical reactions like ordinary plants. Therefore, there is a certain scientific reason for eating lard and dying quickly, but as long as you eat some properly, this kind of words will become alarmist.