Saturated fats are high in cholesterol, particularly the “bad” cholesterol or LDL cholesterol. Suet is the fat that collects around a cow’s internal organs like its kidneys and liver and was often used to make pemmican. Animal fats like beef tallow or suet and bacon fat are saturated fats. ![]() What scares most people off is the amount of fat, and for good reason. In spite of how it sounds, pemmican is actually a very nutritious food. Both the men and their sled dogs subsisted on pemmican. Arctic and Antarctic explorers including Admiral Peary, Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, Fridtjof Nansen, and Sir Ernest Shackleton made pemmican their primary food source on their expeditions. ![]() ![]() Pemmican was a mainstay on expeditions north and south and all points east and west.
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