Introduction: Why are there fewer people eating "lard" in rural areas? Three reasons are very important. Do you still eat lard?
Lard, this is a kind of "good food" that has accompanied countless people's childhood. In the past, the conditions were difficult. Even if there were no vegetables, just dig a little lard with a spoon and put it in the large white rice noodles. This kind of lard bibimbap can be eaten in a very large bowl.
At that time, many families would kill "New Year's pigs" at the end of the year, and some of the pork would be sold, and some would be kept for their families to eat during the New Year. And lard must be reluctant to sell. Whenever lard is fried, the whole room is full of fragrance. Even the lard residue will be kept. It will be fragrant and crispy while it is hot. Even children can eat a large bowl at one time.
In fact, decades ago, lard was an indispensable cooking oil in every household's kitchen. Many people have a ceramic basin at home, and it is used specifically to store lard. For example, when stir-frying vegetables, not only is the dish fried with lard more fragrant, but it will not get bitter. If it is a vegetable fried with vegetable oil, the taste and taste will be worse.
However, lard that has been consumed in my country for thousands of years has gradually faded out of the public's vision. Even in rural areas, few people eat lard, so why? Do you still like lard? Three reasons are crucial!
First of all, there are fewer pig raising people in rural areas.
lard refers to the use of pork, and is mostly an edible oil extracted from pork oil . Since you want to refine lard, you need pork butter. In the past, there were many people raising pigs in rural areas, and basically every household had pigs. After killing the pigs at the end of the year, they will use pork oil to refine lard.
In the past, the conditions were poor, and many things were "doing by themselves, having enough food and clothing", that is, if you can produce them yourself, you will never spend money to buy them. In terms of cooking oil, there are mainly two sources, which rely on planting peanuts, rapeseed, oil tea seeds and and using their seeds to squeeze oil.
Another part is to raise pigs and use the pig's pork oil to squeeze oil. In this way, animal fat and vegetable oil can be eaten together, which can generally meet the needs of the family, so there is no need to buy oil to eat. Some families can even sell part of it.
However, later farmers went out to work in large numbers, and there were only a very small number of elderly people, women and children in rural areas. Moreover, compared with the cost of raising pigs in the past, the profit was lower. A pig could not even be earned from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, so naturally most people were unwilling to raise it. There are fewer people raising pigs, so there are fewer raw materials for refining lard.
Although pork oil is also sold in the market, some people still think it is not cost-effective to refine oil when purchased, or if such lard tastes uneasy, it is better to eat other cooking oils.
Secondly, it’s too troublesome to fry lard, and most people don’t have time.
In today's fast-paced life, most people are under a lot of pressure in their lives. Apart from going to work, they don't have much spare time. If you eat lard, you usually don’t have ready-made sales on the market. You have to buy lard and then take it home to refine the oil yourself.
However, many people think that refining oil is too troublesome, which is not only time-consuming, but also makes the kitchen, body, etc. dirty. The most important thing is that many young people nowadays don’t even know how to refine lard. In their opinion, this is a very troublesome and tiring farm work.
Instead of this, it is better to go directly to the supermarket to buy barrel oil. This is not only more convenient, but also much more efficient, and even has a higher cost-effectiveness than eating lard. I believe that most young people choose barrel oil for both lard and barrel oil because it is convenient and hygienic.
Again, lard is not resistant to storage, and most people have misunderstandings about it.
If it is lard refined by oneself, it means adding appropriate amount of water to the pork oil and putting it in a pot to fry the oil. Therefore, it is a truly zero-added green cooking oil, but such oil also has one disadvantage, that is, it is not very resistant to storage.It's a little better in winter, but it will easily deteriorate when the weather is hot. This aspect is indeed much inferior to barrel oil.
In addition, foods seasoned with lard should be eaten while it is hot. After cooling, there will be a smell of oil and fishy smell, which will affect people's appetite, which also makes some people lose their favor for lard.
There is also a very important reason, which is that many people now have misunderstandings about lard. When many people hear about lard, they think it is extracted from pork oil and has a high fat content, so it is not good for the body if eaten.
There are many people who have this idea online, and some even say that lard is unhealthy and can easily become obese after eating it, or cause some diseases. is also because of these people’s misunderstanding of lard, which makes them avoid lard.
Of course, the group of people who loved eating lard were old at the beginning. Most of them had some chronic diseases, which made them unable to continue, or they often ate lard.
As for young people, they don’t have time to fry lard, and some of them don’t know how to fry lard. Most people don’t even know how to cook now, but they just order takeaway, which naturally leads to fewer people eating lard.
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In fact, whether it is lard, vegetable oil, etc., their main components are composed of saturated high-level fatty acid glycerides and unsaturated high-level fatty acid glycerides, but it is just a matter of the proportion of various ingredients.
lard contains a higher content of saturated high-grade fatty acid glycerides, but regular consumption of lard can not only increase the human body's cholesterol content, reduce the risk of fat deposition, but also play a role in protecting blood vessels.
The "one spoonful of lard is better than five medicines" that was circulated among the people in the past, which means that lard has medicinal value. This is also recorded in Li Shizhen 's "Compendium of Materia Medica".
And in the past, many people have always believed that "greens fried with lard are more fragrant", which makes sense, because lard has an irreplaceable special fragrance compared to ordinary vegetable oils, which is why lard can enhance people's appetite.
It is worth mentioning that lard not only contains saturated and unsaturated fatty acids, but also contains a variety of fatty acids, vitamins A, B, D, oleic acid , etc. Therefore, it is also very outstanding in nutrition, especially the fat ratio it contains is less than butter , which is more suitable for people and children who lack vitamin A.
If conditions permit, it is best to eat it with vegetable oil. As long as you eat lard in excess, it will always be beneficial to the body.
OK, that’s all for today. Do you still love eating lard? Do you usually eat too much lard? Everyone is welcome to leave a message to discuss!
