It is not.
YOu are getting a LITTLE Vit D instead of a LOT of nutrients.
Rendering fat LOSES all the nutrients (except a little D).
Eat it BEFORE you render it and you will get ALL the nutrients instead of just a tad of leftover D with a lot of unusable (except for energy) fat.
Fatty acids in LESS saturated fat, the kind that goes rancid easily - go rancid easily for a reason - they have GOOD components that your body can use in antioxidant reactions.
Lard has zero of those benefits.
Essentially if bacteria can not degrade it by chemical reaction, nor can our body do anything with it by chemical reaction either.
...all it can do is use it for energy.
Our bodies need SO much more than mere energy.
Vit D is a pittance of what you get in real fat as it comes, such as Olive oil or butter.
Vit D3 as a supplement is the best way to get it.
The tiny bit in lard or butter is NOT enough for people out of the sun.
Fatty acids are components of fats.
DHa is docosahexaenoic acid, a fatty acid.
EPAis eicosapentaenoic acid, a fatty acid.
ALA is alpha linolenic acid, a fatty acid found in plants
AA is Arachidonic acid, a fatty acid found only in animal fat
and the list is long of acidic components in fat = fatty acids.
Different fats have different kinds and amounts of fatty acids
Each fatty acid breaks down into eicosanoids, 3 main ones (thromboxane etc).
The RATIO of the three eicosanoids in a fatty acid, determines whether it is a net inflammatory one (as ALA and AA) or a net anti-inflammatory one (like DHA and EPA).
It matters to have a diet with mainly anti-inflammatory fatty acids, even though each fatty acid has OTHER essential jobs besides helping to make or undo inflammation at cell wall (aka cell membrane) level.
Cell walls/membranes are fatty layers around each cell which contains watery ingredients. The health of the cell wall/memebrane is dependent on how many anti-inflammatory fatty acids you eat. If those are high, there will be flexibility to allow nutrients thorugh into the cell and toxins out of the cell.
If the diet has mainly inflammatory fatty acids then the cell membrane/wall will be less flexible and you will see things like edema, and toxins in the cells and between the cells, and an insufficient use of nutrients as they canbnot get thbrough the membrane into the cells, also you see other issues like diabetes, fibromyalgia, arthritis, lupus, etc etc - inflammatory conditions.
The inflammatory fatty acids like ALA and AA DO have other important uses in the body - but the RATIO of them needs to be LOW so that overall the system is anti-inflammatory adn allows cell membranes/walls to function properly to let in nutrients and to let out toxins.
Namaste,
Irene
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