Palm Oil Health

Red palm oil (RPO) is the only commercially-available oil that contains substantial amounts of the natural plant pigments called “carotenoids” (about 550 µg/g), as well as vitamin E (600 µg/g) comprising both tocotrienols (65%) and alpha-tocopherol (35%). Some of the carotenoids in RPO are converted to vitamin A in our body; the the rest of [...]

Healthy palm fruit oil contains almost equal amounts of unsaturated fats and saturated fats, (mainly palmitic and smaller amounts of stearic acids). As a result of its unique balanced composition, palm oil has almost no impact on your cholesterol as long as your total dietary fat intake is in line with the levels recommended by [...]

Whether it’s palm fruit oil, olive oil or fish oil, even healthy cooking oils don’t last forever. What happens when a cooking oil goes bad? Opened cooking oil can go rancid after a month or two affecting the taste and quality of your food. Other oils, such as vegetable oils, may last up to two [...]

The positive science and research supporting Malaysian Palm Fruit Oil continues to grow. We wanted this compilation of what we know about this healthy oil. It’s quite a list! Palm fruit oil has been a safe and nutritious source of edible oil for thousands of years. Palm oil and other derivatives from the oil palm [...]

There are many good reasons why the Malaysian oil palm tree is called the Tree of Life. It produces the oil that is doing everyone a world of good. Forget what you may have heard about oil palm farming harming the environment or about consumption of palm oil being harmful. Here’s the truth about this [...]

The benefits and advantages of palm fruit oil advantages aren’t just nutritional. It’s also good for our planet. Malaysian palm fruit oil crop production is, by far, one of the most efficient uses of land area for edible oil production. By comparison, olive oil falls way down the list. Malaysian palm fruit oil yield is [...]

The carotenoid composition of RPO resembles that of tomatoes, with beta-carotene (60%) and alpha-carotene (30%) forming the two main provitamin A carotenoids. As a potential source of vitamin A in the body, RPO is equivalent to about 7,000 retinol equivalents (RE) per 100 grams. This means that one teaspoon (6 grams) of RPO will supply [...]

Crude palm oil is very rich in natural plant pigments called “carotenoids” giving the oil a distinct orange-red colour. In conventional refining of palm oil, all the carotenoids are removed and the refined oil is no longer orange-red but instead, golden-yellow. Thanks to novel technology introduced by the Malaysian Palm Oil Industry, healthful natural carotenoids [...]

Tocotrienols are much more powerful antioxidants than tocopherols in our body and are therefore much more efficient scavengers of damaging reactive oxygen species (ROS) produced by our body’s aerobic metabolism. Scientific research conducted in the United States and elsewhere around the globe has demonstrated that tocotrienols have amazing beneficial health effects which include: regress atherosclerotic [...]

Palm oil is nature’s richest commercially-viable source of tocotrienols while smaller amounts are found in rice bran oil, germ portions of cereals like barley and rye, and coconut oil. Surprisingly, most other common vegetable oils such as corn oil, soyabean oil, canola oil and sunflower oil do not contain tocotrienols.