QuestionI've been reading a lot about pemmican and am surprised that there's so few sources to purchase...and I'm not really into drying meat and rendering fat.
If you mix powdered protein and coconut oil or lard, is that pemmican???
Answer Pemmican basically consists of dried raw lean meat(ie jerky)along with cooked/rendered fat. It's extremely unhealthy, given that cooked animal fats contain high levels of heat-created toxins. In theory, lard or even coconut oil could be used, but are, IMO, even worse than tallow, which is normally used for the cooked animal fat part. Coconut oil contains high levels of antinutrients which cause problems for many people, and lard is usually unhealthy grainfed lard, not grassfed(as it comes from pigs which are rarely grassfed), and there's even hydrogenated lard available which is even worse. Also, most sources selling pemmican, according to pemmican-devotees cheat by adding salt(to get round not drying the pemmican properly) or adding dried berries, among other methods, which mean that their pemmican doesn't last as long as it should.
In short, pemmican is an unhealthy food, only suitable if you have no healthier foods available, and even then it's a poor compromise.
HTH,
RPG.
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