Today, it is the most widely produced vegetable oil of the world. In some Asian countries, it is termed as ‘gold oil’, for its perfect balance of saturated and unsaturated fatty acids which do not adversely affect cholesterol levels.
The purest form of palm oil is easily available in the tropical West Africa, Indonesia and Malaysia, where it is widely cultivated. Besides being used in personal care products and toiletries, it is also used to treat wounds and as a feedstock for biofuel.
Oil palm is the only fruit in the world that can give two types of oil. We can obtain oil from the mesocarp (flesh of the fruit) and the lauric palm kernel oil from the kernel at the fruit’s core. It is available in variety of forms in the market like RBD palm oil, fractionated palm olein, crude palm oil, palm olein, palm stearin and pal mid-fraction. This oil is used in many industrial and domestic applications including cooking, soap & washing powder manufacturing, etc.
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