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Beef Tallow: What It Is, How to Use It & How to Buy a Clean One (Grass-Fed vs Wagyu)

Audio from the Clean Food Score video of the same name; the video shows the labels and scores on screen.

Beef tallow is rendered beef fat: great for frying, with a smoke point around 400–420°F. But some tallow on the shelf is blended with soybean oil or preserved with BHA and BHT. We cover uses, storage, the saturated fat question, blends and sprays, grass-fed vs Wagyu, and real jars with their Clean Food Score label scores (as of October 2026).

Full guide and the products we checked
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Chapters
0:00 The Short Answer
0:41 What Tallow Is
1:24 How People Use It
1:59 Smoke Point and Storage
2:43 The Saturated Fat Question
3:39 Pure Tallow Versus Blends
4:22 Preservatives in Bulk Tallow
5:10 Sprays and Flavored Tallow
5:53 Grass-Fed, Grass-Finished and Wagyu
6:39 Real Jars, Real Scores
7:26 Comparing Price
8:04 Your Turn

Product scores are Clean Food Score's 0–100 label scores as shown on cleanfoodscore.com on 2026-10-16. Recipes change, so read the package you buy. We read labels; this is not medical advice.

Music
"Almost Bliss" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Friday Morning" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Disquiet" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Fresh Air" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Reminiscing" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Sound effects: Kenney (kenney.nl), CC0.

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