Trans fats have largely been removed from our diets, but saturated fats are found in some plant-based oils like coconut oil and palm oil. To find out more about palm oil, we spoke with Kat Benson, a ...
Since, palm oil's popularity has done nothing but rise. Demand spiked again in the '90s, as companies suddenly realized the negative health implications of the trans fats found in many processed ...
But as global demand for palm oil grew, companies racing to supply it burned and bulldozed some of those forests. Health concerns over trans fats fueled the boom—palm oil replaced trans fats in ...
It’s an edible vegetable oil that comes from the fruit of oil palm trees, the scientific name is Elaeis guineensis. Two types of oil can be produced; crude palm oil comes from squeezing the fleshy ...
Palm oil can be found in many things, from make-up to pizza, soap to chocolate. Rosette Ale, a sustainable fashion business owner, explains how the demand for palm oil is unfortunately leading to ...
Since 2015, Malaysia has taken a global leadership role in continuously implementing sustainable oil palm cultivation and palm oil process innovations. IN 1905, a young Frenchman named Henri ...
With no end in sight to sky-high prices for palm oil, Japanese businesses have idled their power plants that burn it to generate electricity. And they do not appear ready to resume operations ...