Healthiest Cooking Oil
Palm Oil is Rich in Saturated Vegetable Fats and becomes semi solid at the room temperature. Due to the Saturated Vegetable Fats, it helps to increase LDL Cholesterol and Prevent the Risk of Cardiovascular disease. It consists of Fatty Acids along with Cholesterol. It has High content of Saturated Fat.
Palm Oil is loaded with various Nutrients that enhance the level of energy, promote vision, enhance immune power, prevent cancer, premature aging and health ailments. It has 40 percent of monounsaturated fatty acids, 50 percent of saturated fat and 10 percent of polyunsaturated fatty acid. The carotene content is 300 times higher in comparison to tomatoes and 15 times more than carrots.
| Total Fat | 100g |
| Saturated Fat | 49.3g |
| Polyunsaturated Fat | 9.3g |
| Monounsaturated Fat | 37.0g |
| Total Trans Fatty Acids | 3 Red max |
| Cloud Point | – |
| Total Trans-monoenoic Fatty Acids | – |
| Total Trans-polyenoic Fatty Acids | – |
| Total Omega-3 Fatty Acids | 200mg |
| Total Omega-6 Fatty Acids | 9100mg |
The entire Production of the Palm Oil derived from Indonesia’s Rainforest which ranks third in the world, the other two being in the Amazon and Congo basins. According to the Indonesian Palm Oil Association, one third of this production is attributed to smallholder farmers and the remaining to the multinationals.
Borneo and Sumatra are the two islands which account for 96 percent of Indonesia’s Palm Oil production.
According to the World Bank reports nearly 50% of CPO – Crude Palm Oil produced in the country is exported in an unprocessed form, while the remaining is subject to processing into Cooking Oil out of which about 50% exported and the balance is consumed locally.
Sarawak, with an extensive landbank, established its first palm oil plantation in the eighties. By 1990 the area under palm oil was 55,000 hectares, rising to 330,000 hectares by 2000. By 2012, the total area of palm oil plantations was approximately 1 million hectares.
By contrast, the total planted area in Malaysia, including Sabah but excluding Sarawak is just less than 4 million hectares.
However, while the land available for oil palm plantations in West Malaysia and Sabah are almost exhausted, research shows that Sarawak can plant another million hectares of oil palm plantation by the year 2020.
The World’s Two Largest Palm Oil Producing Countries are Indonesia and Malaysia, which together account for nearly 90% of the World Production.