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What is crisco?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 10/6/2023

Crisco lists it's ingredients as hydrogenated cottonseed and soybean oils, mono- and diglycerides.


Check out the wiki site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisco for the whole story on how it was first invented by proctor and gamble as a cheaper substitute to animal fats for making candles. It was the first all vegetable oil shortening but it was intended for making candles. When electricity became widely available the demand for candles was reduced and that's when they decided to sell it as shortening... to eat.

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Corbin Jast

Lvl 10
3y ago

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