Oil, ucuhuba butter

Ucuhuba butter is a solid fat pressed from the seeds of the ucuhuba tree, an Amazonian species, and it behaves like other tropical seed fats such as cocoa butter or shea butter, melting from a firm solid into a liquid oil around body or cooking temperature. In the regions where it's produced, it's worked into traditional cooking as a solid shortening or rendered for frying, and it has also historically been used outside the kitchen in soap and candle making because of its firm texture at room temperature. It is far less common in mainstream kitchens than cocoa butter or coconut oil, showing up mostly in regional Amazonian cooking.

A tablespoon weighs 14 grams, and per 100 grams ucuhuba butter is essentially pure fat at 884 calories and 100 grams of fat, with no protein, carbohydrate, sugar or sodium recorded. That makes it a pure cooking fat, useful anywhere a recipe calls for a solid fat with a high smoke point rather than a source of any other nutrient. Store it in a sealed container in a cool, dark place, since like other tropical seed fats it will soften or melt at warm room temperatures and firm back up when chilled, much like coconut oil does on a warm kitchen counter.