What foods contain the most saturated fat?

Maybe this'll help: http://www.healthaliciousness.com/articles/foods-highest-in-saturated-fat.php

not meat but salad dressings are pretty high in saturated fats, especially caesar dressing...dairy. cheeses..think triple cream bries and heavy cream.....of course most processed foods goes without saying...

joey

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Originally Posted by boar_d_laze 

Not even close.

Yeah, that was a bizarre guess. Chlorinated, what made you think that lamb chops were the food item that contains the highest amount of saturated fat? 

Hydrogenated palm oil, which is the primary building block of all processed foods (due to its incredibly long shelf life), is more like it. 

Butter would be a good starting point.

Check out Saturated Fat Sources, Foods highest in saturated fats, Saturated Fat - Which foods are high in saturated fats, Top 10 Foods Highest in Saturated Fat, then again, do a Google search for "foods with high saturated fat content and pick the sites that look good to you.

Most of us tend to shy away from saturated and trans-fats, but go ahead and have fun.

Remember, the fat content of any animal product is highly dependent on how it is butchered and trimmed as well as how it is cooked! A ridiculous example: a slab of lard has far more saturated fat than the equivalent weight of a pork chop, even if the pork chop is not trimmed as is normal.

One caveat on lamb fat, it solidifies rather quickly as it cools and, IMO, tastes ghastly when cold, BTA,WTHDIK!

Have you considered the difference between "marble fat", those streaks of fat embedded in the meat, versus the fat layers, that are often trimmed off? Often, the fat layers will render and leave most of the fat in the pan, unless, of course, you pour the fat in the pan over your meat, though I would sooner use butter, it has better flavor, IMHO.

If, as you've previously stated, it is your goal to consume saturated fat, I'd seriously consider sources other than animal fats, many other food products are far higher in saturated fat content and, IMO, far more flavorful. Meat is predominately protein, it is not that good a vehicle to carry fat into your digestive tract.

Oh, BTW, I understand seal and whale blubber is very high in saturated fat.
 

Isn't japan and the traditional Inuit allotment about the only legal harvest for those?

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Originally Posted by PeteMcCracken 

Oh, BTW, I understand seal and whale blubber is very high in saturated fat.
 

 

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Originally Posted by phatch 

Isn't japan and the traditional Inuit allotment about the only legal harvest for those?

 

there are islands in the caribbean that still whale. it is quite amazing to watch when they bring it in and the whole island shares in it. there is a bar on the island of bequia called the 'whaleboner'. the bar stools are vertabrae discs and the bar is baleen....hmmm good rum too. they still build their boats with hand tools. i watched them build dylan's schnooner 'water pearl'...then some idiot captain sunk it on a reef...sorry about being off topic...one thing just led to another...

joey
 

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Originally Posted by Chlorinated 

 I think lamb chops has the highest saturated fat content compared to any parts of any other animals.

 

Thanks

Nope.  Actually take a whole shoulder of lamb.  Stick in a deep roasting pan and cover it with foil.  Throw it into a 180C oven for 4hrs.  Now take it out of the oven and uncover.  All the liquid in the bottom (and it's alot) is pure melted animal fat.  But don't worry, there is still much much more fat still left on the succulent meat.  Enjoy.

Lamb chops and loins are relatively diet food compared to the fat on a shoulder of lamb.
 

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Originally Posted by Chlorinated 

Excluding pork that is.

I can try to accept your slightly delusional sense of nutrition about eating boatloads of saturated fat, to each his own after all.  However, this statement is downright upsetting.  Pork is such a wonderful and nutritious meat!  Unlike lamb where the fat is marbled throughout the meat and cannot be seperated easily, pork meat is surprisingly lean.  The fat on pork is surface only and can easily be cut away leaving a very healthy lean protein.