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shortening

any fat that is solid at room temperature and used to make crumbly pastry and other food products
Class type of: edible fats and oils, food ingredient Q1194601

Facts

4 properties
Instance of
product category
Subclass of
edible fats and oils, food ingredient[2][3]
Contains
trans fat[4]
P14541
1zPHLV[5]
🏷️ Also known as
en Shortening & Lard en lard and shortening en shortening ar دهن نباتي da margarine de Ungehärtetes Pflanzenfett el μαγειρικό λίπος es grasa alimentaria es shortening fa چربمایه fa روغن تردکننده شیرینی fa روغن قنادی fi leivontamargariini fr graisse alimentaire fr graisses alimentaires he שורטנינג hi आहार वसा hu rövidítés id Shortening (mentega) it grassi alimentari
🔖 Identifiers · 11
Amazon.com browse node
6492284011
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID
193879
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/shortening
Freebase ID
/m/0316bq
Google Product Taxonomy ID
5765
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
shortening
KBpedia ID
Shortening
Open Food Facts ingredient ID
fat
Topic's main category
Category:Shortening
USDA NDB number
4.6k (4.0k–4.7k, n=21)
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
07688432-n

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🔗 Connections
Subtypes 2
cocoa butter, Copha
Belongs to 1
Keema Matar
Contains 1
trans fat
Has these parts 1
trans fat
Subclass of 1
food ingredient
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Summary

shortening is a product category[1].

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 16w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 1zPHLV
    Instance of → product category
    Contains → trans fat
    Aliases → —
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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