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The United States is the most important beef tallow producer in the world, supplying ca. 5.5 billion pounds annually. Approximately half of this beef tallow is exported at relatively low prices when compared to other fats and oils. Only ca. 10% of the total is used in domestic edible products. On the other hand, cocoa butter, coconut oil, palm oil, and palmkernel oil are imported oils whose demand for use in food and confectionery products has been increasing over the past few years. The first of these is the most expensive fat in the world. Beef tallow contains specific triglycerides which are also contained in these imported fats and oils. Through modern technology, beef tallow has been fractionated into products which are compatible with or superior to the imported fats and oils. It is visualized that products from fractionated beef tallow can be used as substitutes and extenders to cocoa butter, palm oil, and other fats and oils in the food and confectionery industries. The economic evaluation in this paper, analyzed through time series data and multiple regression techniques, established the past relationships between per capita consumption of confectionery food fat, beef tallow, cocoa butter, adjusted per capita disposable income, and adjusted costs of confectionery, beef tallow, and cocoa butter from 1956 to 1973. The substitutability of fats and oils was evaluated and the potential uses of fractionated beef tallow investigated.
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Taylor, H.H., Luddy, F.E., Hampson, J.W. et al. Substitutability of fractionated beef tallow for other fats and oils in the food and confectionery industries: An economic evaluation. J Am Oil Chem Soc 53, 491–495 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02636821
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