Palm oil\u00a0is an edible\u00a0vegetable oil\u00a0derived from the\u00a0mesocarp\u00a0(reddish pulp) of the fruit of the\u00a0oil palms, primarily the African oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) and to a lesser extent from the American oil palm\u00a0Elaeis oleifera\u00a0and the maripa palm\u00a0Attalea maripa.<\/p>\n
Palm oil is naturally reddish in color because of a high\u00a0beta-carotene\u00a0content. It is not to be confused with\u00a0palm kernel oil\u00a0derived from the\u00a0kernel\u00a0of the same fruit[ or\u00a0coconut oil\u00a0derived from the kernel of the coconut palm (Cocos nucifera).<\/p>\n
The differences are in color (raw palm kernel oil lacks\u00a0carotenoids\u00a0and is not red), and in\u00a0saturated fat\u00a0content: palm mesocarp oil is 49 percent saturated, while palm kernel oil and coconut oil are 81 percent and 86 percent saturated fats, respectively. However, crude red palm oil that has been refined, bleached and deodorized, a common\u00a0commodity\u00a0called RBD palm oil, does not contain carotenoids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Palm oil\u00a0is an edible\u00a0vegetable oil\u00a0derived from the\u00a0mesocarp\u00a0(reddish pulp) of the fruit of the\u00a0oil palms, primarily the African oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) and to a lesser extent from the American oil palm\u00a0Elaeis oleifera\u00a0and the maripa palm\u00a0Attalea maripa. Palm oil is naturally reddish in color because of a high\u00a0beta-carotene\u00a0content. It is not to be confused with\u00a0palm kernel oil\u00a0derived from the\u00a0kernel\u00a0of the same fruit[ or\u00a0coconut oil\u00a0derived from the kernel of the coconut palm (Cocos nucifera). The differences are in color (raw palm kernel oil lacks\u00a0carotenoids\u00a0and is not red), and in\u00a0saturated fat\u00a0content: palm mesocarp oil is 49 percent saturated, while palm kernel oil and coconut oil are 81 percent and 86 percent saturated fats, respectively. However, crude red palm oil that has been refined, bleached and deodorized, a common\u00a0commodity\u00a0called RBD palm oil, does not contain carotenoids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[35],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-648","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-oils-and-fats","7":"desktop-align-left","8":"tablet-align-left","9":"mobile-align-left","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agro-veva.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agro-veva.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agro-veva.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agro-veva.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agro-veva.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agro-veva.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agro-veva.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agro-veva.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agro-veva.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}