: the white nearly tasteless solid rendered fat of cattle and sheep used chiefly in soap, candles, and lubricants
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Brittany Loggins, Bon Appetit Magazine, 25 Aug. 2025
Now companies are capitalizing on some of Kennedy’s favored dietary principles—including his assertion, which is refuted by most nutrition experts, that beef tallow is a healthy substitute for seed oils—by further overhauling the branding and recipes of their products.
—Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 23 Aug. 2025
Between Instagram and #BeautyTok, skincare advice is plenty (think beef tallow and face-taping).
—Noma Nazish, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
The restaurant specializes in smashburgers and cooks hand-cut fries in beef tallow, according to its co-founders Pedro Goes and Browston Xai Xai.
—Samantha Gowen, Oc Register, 11 Aug. 2025
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Noun
Ghee and Wagyu beef tallow For cooking fat, McHale likes to use Wagyu beef tallow or ghee.
—Brittany Loggins, Bon Appetit Magazine, 25 Aug. 2025
Now companies are capitalizing on some of Kennedy’s favored dietary principles—including his assertion, which is refuted by most nutrition experts, that beef tallow is a healthy substitute for seed oils—by further overhauling the branding and recipes of their products.
—Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 23 Aug. 2025
Between Instagram and #BeautyTok, skincare advice is plenty (think beef tallow and face-taping).
—Noma Nazish, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
The restaurant specializes in smashburgers and cooks hand-cut fries in beef tallow, according to its co-founders Pedro Goes and Browston Xai Xai.
—Samantha Gowen, Oc Register, 11 Aug. 2025
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“Tallow.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tallow. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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tallow
noun
tal·low
ˈtal-(ˌ)ō, -ə(-w) 
: the white nearly tasteless solid rendered fat of cattle and sheep which is used chiefly in soap, margarine, candles, and lubricants and of which the form obtained from domestic sheep (Ovis aries) is used in pharmacy in ointments and cerates
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