Nutiva, Shortening Classic Organic, 15 Fl Oz

Ingredients: *Organic Palm Fruit Oil, *Organic Unrefined Red Palm Oil, Organic Unrefined Virgin Coconut Oil *Fair Trade Certified by IMO 90% Fair for life ingredients This is by far, the best shortening I have found!! I LOVE it for my pie crusts! I weigh out (or measure) how much I am going to use, then put it in the freezer for 5-10 minutes BEFORE I put it in the recipe. My crusts come out so flaky!!! I also have been using it in cookies. The flavor of the crusts and cookies are great too. This doesn't overpower anything, very neutral, but seems to add just a hint of lusciousness. Somehow the mix of oils just works so well, its almost buttery. It IS the consistency of a soft butter. The palm oil is for creating flaky baked goods, the coconut oil provides the added health benefits of lauric acid. This shortening is vegan and contains no dairy, soy or canola! It is organic, non-GMO and Fair Trade certified. The golden color reveals the presence of antioxidant vitamins A & E naturally found in red palm oil. No hexane, dairy, soy or canola Non-hydrogenated (Zero Trans fats!) No cholesterol Non-BPA container

I just LOVE this newest version of "margarine" if you excuse the comparison. For making pie crust, or anywhere margarine, Crisco or other shortening besides butter is called for (or a mix of both for that matter) this is just SUPERB! Formerly a chef,and having cooked since I could stand on a chair to reach the counter (over 55 years now!) I still love to bake and cook and I still make everything from scratch; thus I have the experience and know-how to tell quality ingredients when I see/use them. This is IT! Frequently better for many uses such as pastry dough, pie crust etc than just coconut oil, or only butter (makes a flakier crust). Nutiva has blended red palm oil and coconut oil (and no, you don't smell nor taste the coconut) to make a bland that could sub for butter on the table even. Light yellow in its natural color from the red palm oil, it is better for you by far (read the label!) than butter and definitely better than fake chemically laced margarine, The best part? besides the taste, the flexibility of uses in cooking and baking - this is sourced from South America! ONLY Fairly Traded family owned farms vs clear cutting orangutan dwelling areas in Asia as MOST other red palm oil comes from (did you know that?!?! I didn't till I read it on Nutiva's website). So now you have NO excuses. AND the price - definitely worth the few dollars spent here on Amazon (cheaper than any other source I've found!). Go buy it NOW! you will not regret it.

I have been buying the Nutiva Organic Shortening, Original, 15 oz fr a few years now. This is a good choice for a healthier "Shorting" that suits some of our cooking needs, mostly for frying. It is pretty much flavorless, so it does not interfere too much with the flavors of what we are cooking. We use this product instead of any cooking oils. This product does NOT do well for greasing pans for baking breads, cookies or cakes! We are fairly happy with this product and will continue to use it, mostly instead of butter in a fry pan. UPDATE 05/04/2024: Apparently, this product has been discontinued??? It has not been available for quite a while on Amazon and got dropped from my Sub and Save. I guess we will just be using regular coconut oil now.

Alright so this is a difficult reviews to write. The flavor texture and everything are absolutely amazing. Unfortunately I wanted something more like a shortening and less like a margarine. This looks and performs like "whipped" margarine, if you try to compare it to good old all vegetable shortening. This means that as a soy-free alternative for seasoning my cast iron pans and for some recipes, sometimes it just doesn't quite work instead of vegetable shortening. But I will be purchasing it again.

I’m so happy to have found this product. I make a lot of allergy friendly desserts and use this in place of butter. I was using straight coconut oil for awhile but didn’t like greasy texture it left This blends in smoothly with my recipes and works well for the butter in buttercream. It also whips up well with sugar for cookies. This has a slightly buttery flavor and color but I do not get any coconut flavor even though it contains coconut. I’ve been very pleased with texture and flavor this produced in my dessert

So happy to have found this. I have always blindly used crisco for Thanksgiving pies. After developing a thyroid problem, I cut out inorganic foods and all soy. Last year I made all butter crust, but it just wasn't quite as good. This year I did half butter, half nutiva and it was amazing! Tender, delicious, and flakey. (I used the stand mixer crust recipe from "Hummingbird High" and subbed this for half the butter). Will buy again!

I had no idea there was a "healthier" shortening. I actually tried this for the first time a week ago when I got it with subscribe and save. I'm so glad I did! I have used it lightly for frying a few things and greasing cake pans. WORKS perfectly! I will be trying it in baked goods but I'm sure it will work. No real taste or smell, nice butter color. It didn't change the taste of the foods( eggs, I fried. I LOVE that there's NO cholesterol and being certified organic is an extra PLUS for me! I really liked coconut oil before I found this but I had never tried red palm oil. So happy to find a healthier option with this! I don't think I'll ever buy Crisco again!

Highly recommended. I've been a Nativa customer for some time now. Love this product - use it in baking and as shortening or butter. Tastes great on popcorn. I believe it's healthy, although I'm not a medical professional by any means, just a customer using it in my cooking. Natural, cold pressed cocunut oil is the best.

Banana bread

It doesn't taste quite as nice as coconut oil, but does cook the same way. I only use it for frying so far.

Both per who ate this got food poisoning. Don’t buy. I’m very disappointed.

Not quite what I thought it was... not sure what to do with it to be honest. Could use it as a lip butter for the next 10 years perhaps?