Palm oil

Updated article : 07/11/2017

Oil Palm is used in the food industry (80%), cosmetics (19%) and Bio fuels (1%). Its very low cost of production, its ability to preserve food and make them fluffy make this product the key component of industrial.

Palm oil should instead bear the name of "Palm grease" because it is hard at room temperature because of its richness in saturated fatty acids (that is much higher than animal fats like butter, for example).

Found in a wide variety of products such as biscuits, confectionery, industrial rolls, chocolate bars, cereals, margarine, ice cream etc. (but also in some soaps, perfumes, cosmétiques…).

As the trans fat, saturated fats also raise bad cholesterol. So add fat (Here palm oil) in a diet already rich in saturated fat is bad for your health.

Prefer rather polyunsaturated fats (Omega 3, for example) that improve the blood pressure, reduce the accumulation of plaques and especially to lower bad cholesterol levels.

More concretely, the family of polyunsaturated foods are some fish (salmon, Trout, herring, sardine …), linseed oil, les graines de lin moulues…

Course should be to limit the consumption of trans fats and saturated emphasizing monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats for your health in General and especially for your heart.

Not only bad for health, Palm oil is also an ecological disaster :

Indeed to meet a growing demand (first vegetable oil consumed in the world), oil palm plantations (Elaeis guineensis) replace little by little forests of Southeast Asia and Central Africa. This deforestation ravage the bio diversity introduced in tropical forests and threatens a considerable number of plant and animal species for the benefit of a monoculture. This disaster is done by fire and also causes a very significant releases of CO2 in the atmosphere (the Indonesia has become the third largest producer of CO2 from the Earth because of forest fires).

The ravages of deforestation, here in Kalimantan 2014, in the concession Karya Makmur Amadi cleared for the construction of a palm oil plantation. (Credits: BAY Ismoyo / AFP)

“All the 10 seconds, an area of forest equivalent to a football field disappearing in Indonesia. The extension of the plantations of Oil Palm is, by far, the first cause. In Europe, Palm oil has become, in a few years, indispensable to the manufacture of many consumer products.” source : www.amisdelaterre.org

L’ouvrage “Le scandale des singes pour l’huile” publié par les Amis de la Terre affirme que sans une intervention urgente, le commerce de l’huile de palme causerait l’extinction of the only great apes of Asia here 12 years !

This vegetable oil is in a product on 10 in our supermarkets according to a recent study.

Note all the same gesture of the Casino group which withdraw palm oil from all these Casino brand products following a new controversy in France on Palm oil.

Everything is not perfect because the Casino brand products were likely to contain GMOs, food additives and residues of pesticides. This is still an initiative that deserves to be encouraged.

A video on the impact of deforestation on Palm oil :

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Cyrille says:

13 December 2012 at 15 h 03 min

dès votre second paragraphe j'ai céssé de vous lire tellement j'étais éffaré par le manque de justesse scientifique et vos propos tout bonnement inepte:
"Palm oil should instead bear the name of "Palm grease" because it is hard at room temperature because of its richness in saturated fatty acids (that is much higher than animal fats like butter, for example)."
first : all oils are of grease as you say so. d'ailleurs ce n'est que ça , fatty acids.
Secondly: richness of higher fatty acid has one animal fat .. made just a search for thirty second on the net that you used so well to misinform and tell me what you found. soon we will tell me cooking in lard for my health.
- Michel says:
  
  27 March 2013 at 14 h 53 min
  
  Cyrille, vous dites n'importe quoi ; In addition out of politeness, You should check your spelling !
- Rabbit says:
  
  17 July 2014 at 17 h 46 min
  
  Cyrille,
  
  You should read more detail this article, because you have serious shortcomings. PAS very wise to teach a lesson ! Fat (3 fatty acids attached to a molecule of Glycerin) make up oils and fats. La différence entre la graisse et l'huile est sa duretée suivant la température (Cyrille 0 dangersalimentaires 1). Like the sugerrez, just from is renseignner (on the internet it is enough).
  
  Ensuite vous n'êtes pas capable de lire correctement "Secondly: wealth of fatty acid". Fatty acids SATURATED. Ensuite si le beurre contient plus d'acides gras saturés, il contient de l'EAU ! Au final si on ajoute l'eau... butter is less fat and less saturated fat-rich (Cyrille 0 dangersalimentaires 2), because it consumes always sle butter with its water that composes.
  - gouyette says:
    
    20 January 2016 at 16 h 06 min
    
    hello jtador lil rabbit heart:)<3
Michel says:

27 March 2013 at 14 h 51 min

Palm butter

Saturated fatty acids 49,3 % 51,4 %
monounsaturated 37 % 21,0 %
Poly Omega 6 9,1 % 2,7 %
omega3 0,2 % 0,3 %
TRANS 0 % 4,4 %
Source : http://www.lanutrition.fr/

L'huile de palme n'est donc pas plus mauvaise que le beurre pour la santé.
Pour l'environnement, c'est autre chose !!!

In addition, the bioavailability of fatty acids (position in triglyceride) est plutôt favorable à l'huile de palme
- Rabbit says:
  
  17 July 2014 at 17 h 49 min
  
  Michel,
  
  an precision. Within the fatty acids saturated, il ya différents types d'acides gras (small, long chain). L'acide palmitique, dont l'huile de palme contient une grande majorité, is one of the most harmful. La disponnibilité de l'acide palmitique est réduite mais loin d'être faible. In reality, Dan sle corp human and unlike models, l'acide palmitique est assez bien disponnible dan sl'huile de palme. Contrary to the lies of "Dr" Grailles (the criad former, 1ER plamier plan producer world).
Akim says:

27 January 2016 at 20 h 54 min

Hello dear Internet .
Je voudrais importer des conserve de Sardine à base d'huile de palm. Vos avis me seront d'une grande importance.

Thank you to react massively !
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12 October 2017 at 12 h 37 min

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12 October 2017 at 12 h 39 min

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12 October 2017 at 12 h 43 min

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12 October 2017 at 12 h 43 min

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12 October 2017 at 12 h 45 min

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12 October 2017 at 12 h 46 min

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12 October 2017 at 12 h 47 min

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