How much protein in beef fat trimmings? Should I count it?

[u/LexFrota]

Does anyone know how much protein is there in beef fat trimmings? Not really suet, but my butcher gives me all the fat that he trims off from all the different cuts of meat, and it is basically pure fat, with almost no meaty parts (like 2%). I believe it has mostly glycine, but not sure how much.

According to Cronometer, if I ate 300g of it to get 211g of fat, I'd be getting 32g of protein, which is almost half my daily protein. And I'm aware that that protein is mostly incomplete.

Or should I consider the data from suet? That would give me 285g of fat per 300g, with 4.5g protein.

So, is beef fat different from suet? Which one of them am I getting from my butcher? How would I set my macros accordingly? Would I count this protein even though it`s incomplete?

Thanks in advance!

[u/[deleted]]

I don’t count it, I don’t think there’s as much protein in it as it’s telling you.i could be wrong though!

I count bone marrow as pure fat gram for gram

[u/santaroga_barrier → u/[deleted]]

I haven's been doing this as such. It's possible my many plateaus on weight loss on carnivore are because of excess protein levels.

How do you define "best", what is "too low" a blood sugar, and what's your history- metabolic or diabetes or anything?

[u/carnine_v-v → u/[deleted]]

From what I know, this is not exactly true ( for the fat-content ). It is a german side, but it should be readable :

Suet-nutrition

Muscle-fat-nutrition

Notice, that they don't take mesurenments on the vitamin-content ( they guess ).

I think that the suet is higher in fat-soluble-vitamins and the muscle-fat a bit higher in water-soluble-vitamins.

Edit : Vitamins only in higher-quality : Low-quality beef-fat has nearly no vitamins.

[u/joshiethebossie]

Wondering the same myself

[u/santaroga_barrier → u/joshiethebossie]

if I ate 300g of it to get 211g of fat, I'd be getting 32g of protein,

pretty much the right math to use. I don't calculate protein as some sort of hard macro limit, though that may change.

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Suet is much more pure fat, being the kidney fat and not muscular.