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 ...

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 ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Palm oil is a cheap and ubiquitous. It's used in thousands of everyday products and is the most widely consumed vegetable oil on the planet. You can get a ...

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 ...

Palm kernel oil tends to be pressed and refined into more of a solid ... Another myth surrounding palm oil is that it's unhealthy. True, it's found in plenty of unhealthy foods, but palm oil itself ...

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.

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 ...

while oil palm fruits will produce oil palm fibres, palm kernel shells, and EFB after being harvested and crushed to extract the oils. Its fibre waste can be used in many things like mulching ...

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 ...

Palm oil is used in everything from cosmetics to food to soap. There is enormous demand for it. But it is hugely controversial because it involves the clearing of tropical rainforests to grow palm ...

In 2019 Nestlé sourced roughly 455,000 metric tonnes of palm oil and palm kernel oil. Of this, 62% can be traced back to the plantation and 93% to the mill. Nestlé is unlikely to meets its ...

THE sustainable palm oil production in Malaysia is the consequence of many people’s long years of suffering and sacrifice. This obvious land-based, capital-intensive, risky and long-haul ...