animal fat

collocation in English

meaningsofanimalandfat

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animal
adjective
uk
/ˈæn.ɪ.məl/
us
/ˈæn.ɪ.məl/
made or obtained from an animal ...
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fat
noun
uk
/fæt/
us
/fæt/
the substance under the skin of humans and animals that stores energy and keeps ...
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(Definition ofanimalandfatfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In 1582, for example, the candlemakers stated that some butchers had keptanimalfatfor themselves and had begun producing candles.
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This finding may be of importance to food outlets and chefs that exclusively useanimalfatas the principle cooking fat source.
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The leanness of modern sows is quite properly required by a public conscious of the dangers of consuming large quantities ofanimalfat.
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These increases in consumption ofanimalfat, and of fruit and fresh vegetables, are increases in foods of high biological value.
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Cholesterol is made by the liver, but it can be stimulated, so these medical men believe, by eating too muchanimalfat.
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I know of no reports which have recommended the total exclusion ofanimalfatfrom the diet.
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Margarine issued for the domestic ration contains noanimalfat, in the normal sense of the term.
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In order to provide meaningful information the methods of analysis must be capable of detecting these substances in a range of foodstuffs including milk, eggs, fish andanimalfat.
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You can make glycerine from any of those oils although it varies a little in the amount, and fromanimalfatas well for that matter.
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Samples of soil andanimalfathave been analysed at the parts per trillion level for dioxins and furans and at the parts per billion level for polychlorinated biphenyls.
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Although the medical profession may believe that the present indication is that too muchanimalfatmay lead to an excess of cholesterol, they are not absolutely certain of that.
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Weekly allotments of refined oil have also been made to this firm in sufficient quantities to enable them to manufacture margarine without the use ofanimalfat.
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Throughout most of human history fuels derived from plants oranimalfatwere the only ones humans used.
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Chicken fat is one of two types ofanimalfatreferred to as schmaltz, the other being goose fat.
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