FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions

Beef tallow is simply rendered beef fat—a natural cooking fat with a long history in kitchens around the world. It’s made by gently heating beef fat to separate out impurities, resulting in a pure, shelf-stable fat. We use only minimally processed beef tallow in our products, ensuring top quality and taste.

There’s no shortage of fries cooked in vegetable oils, but we believe in offering a better alternative. Research suggests that vegetable oils degrade under high heat, producing byproducts like acrylamides and HNE (4-Hydroxy 2-Nonenal), which may contribute to inflammation. Beef tallow, on the other hand, is more stable at high temperatures, making it a cleaner option for cooking. Plus, it tastes fantastic!

Currently, our products are not certified, but we strictly follow CFIA guidelines for labeling. Our fries are labeled as:

• Seed Oil Free
• All Natural
• Gluten Free
• Minimally Processed

You can read more about CFIA's requirements for labels by clicking the links.

Our fries contain only three simple ingredients: potatoes, beef tallow, and sea salt—none of which contain gluten. While our facility is not certified as allergen-free, we take rigorous steps to mitigate any risk of cross-contamination. Here’s a few things we do to ensure the safety and quality of our fries:

We maintain a strict cleaning and sanitizing regimen before, during, and after each shift to minimize cross-contamination risks.

• No gluten-containing products are used in our workflow, and we ensure strict segregation of any processes involving gluten elsewhere in our facility.
• Our equipment, including fryers and tallow-handling tools, is dedicated exclusively to our production lines.
• We operate during shifts that are isolated from any gluten-related production.
• Periodic gluten testing is conducted on our final product to provide additional reassurance.

We are exploring third-party gluten-free certification, a thorough process that evaluates not just ingredients but also facility practices. While this certification takes time, you can trust that we go above and beyond to deliver a safe, delicious product.

We’re proud to source our premium russet potatoes from local distributors, ensuring they are Ontario-grown. This approach supports local farmers and guarantees a high-quality product for our customers. We're scaling, and in time we expect to source directly from Ontario, if not Canadian farms.

Our beef tallow comes from a trusted Canadian rendering company, which primarily relies on suet sourced from Canadian farms. While the tallow is not specifically categorized as grass-fed, it is carefully filtered and crafted to meet the highest standards of quality, ensuring great taste and nutritional integrity.

Being grass fed and grass finished are descriptions of what cows are fed during their life. If you're looking for the purest form, you really need to ensure it's 100% grass fed, and 100% grass finished and open pasture raised. This tallow is difficult to find in scale and at a reasonable price point. The significant majority of cows in Canada (Ontario) are pasture raised and grass-fed (silage/forage in winter) until they're about 14 months. The difference is in the "finishing", where they could be fed corn, grains, grass and/or a combination therein.

The difference in the 100% grass fed/finished beef tallow and those that are meaningful, for instance the 100% grass fed and finished may have half polyunsaturated fats (i.e. omega-6 fatty acids) and a more paletable omega-3 to omega-6 ratio. However, it's relatively insigificant to the reduction that either option provides to seed oils (vegetable oils such as corn oil, soy oil, canola/rapeseed oil, sunflower oil, etc). It took us 50+ years to get to the state where seed oils are in every bit of our foods and it'll take time to get to a more natural state.