1, shortening is not lard.

2, shortening is a mixture of oil similar to lard, mainly divided into animal shortening, animal and plant mixed shortening, vegetable shortening three, of which, animal shortening and animal and plant mixed shortening contains lard, vegetable shortening does not contain lard.

3, shortening generally refers to refined animal and vegetable fats and oils, hydrogenated oils or mixtures of the above fats and oils, with plasticity, emulsification and other processing properties, should not be consumed directly, mainly used for the processing of pastries, bread, cookies and other foods.

4, lard, also known as meat oil, pig fat, generally from pork after high temperature refining, the initial state of slightly yellow translucent liquid, room temperature for the white or light yellow solid, can be used for stir-frying or cooking soup.