Palm oil can raise “bad” LDL cholesterol and triglycerides, which is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease and stroke. What makes an oil healthy or unhealthy comes down to what kind of fats ...

Palm oil for heart: Is it good or bad? There has been a long debate on ... is the source of palm oil and the seed is the ...

We’ve put together a guide explaining what palm oil is, what it is used for and why it’s bad for the planet, as well as helpful information on how to buy palm oil free products. Palm oil is an ...

For millennia humans have boiled and pounded their fruit to extract cooking oil, burned their seed-kernel ... palm oil consumption radically. The only way forward is to make its production less bad.

Malaysian palm futures were up for the fourth session in a row on Monday, boosted by gains in edible oils. However, the market ...

Now the question is, is palm oil good or bad for the planet? On one hand, palm oil is said to be a super-efficient oil crop as it takes less land to produce the same amount of oil as other oils ...

Two types of oil can be produced; crude palm oil comes from squeezing the fleshy fruit, and palm kernel oil which comes from crushing the kernel, or the stone in the middle of the fruit. Oil palm ...

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At palm oil mills, the oil extraction process generates palm biomass, including empty fruit bunches, mesocarp fibres and palm kernel shells, as well as palm oil mill effluent. Palm oil has a ...

A University of Kent expert says Iceland's move to ban palm oil products from its stores could backfire. It comes as the retailer's had its Christmas Advert which focused on palm oil's impact on ...