Monday 5 March 2012

Palm oil

 It is a vegetable oil. We can obtained from the mesocarp. It's the kind of oil with a higher volume of production. The crude palm oil is a rich source of vitamin A and vitamin E. The  palm oil started to produce  to West Africa, it already got 5,000 years ago oil, today the most important place to produce palm oil is Malasia. it is often used as frying oil or dressing, as well as added other food products as ice cream, margarine, can be made equivalent derivatives of cocoa oil, soaps, etc.. ( we eat this product alot)
Also It is used for biodiesel production.
·Palm oil is saturated up to 50%, its composition is: 
-40-48% saturated fatty acids.
-37-46% fatty acids monoinstaurados.
-10% polyunsaturated fatty acids.


Due to its high proportion of saturated fat, negative properties are attributed to human health as  consumption can raise cholesterol 






2 comments:

RMM said...

Hi!
Why is this oil the one with a higher volume of production? Is it produced in Spain as well?
Thanks

Andreita said...

is used most often because: oil is cheaper and more abundant. Is that, over time, has worse consequences.
In Spain isn´t produce.

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