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Palm oil block showing the lighter color that results from boiling. Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil derived from the mesocarp (reddish pulp) of the fruit of oil palms. [1] The oil is used in food manufacturing, in beauty products, and as biofuel. Palm oil accounted for about 36% of global oils produced from oil crops in 2014. [2]
Palm kernel cake is a high-fibre, medium-grade protein feed best suited to ruminants. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Among other similar fodders , palm kernel cake is ranked a little higher than copra cake and cocoa pod husk, [ 5 ] but lower than fish meal and groundnut cake , especially in its protein value.
It is related to two other edible oils: palm oil, extracted from the fruit pulp of the oil palm, and coconut oil, extracted from the kernel of the coconut. [2] Palm kernel oil, palm oil, and coconut oil are three of the few highly saturated vegetable fats; these oils give the name to the 16-carbon saturated fatty acid palmitic acid that they ...
With oil yield of some six tonnes per hectare per year at its mature estates, IOI is the most efficient plantation company in the world. [8] Malaysia's oil palm average yield for the last 20 years has been stagnant at four tonnes per hectare per year. [9] Nestlé stopped buying palm oil from IOI in 2016. [10]
The following table shows the vegetable oil yields of common energy crops associated with biodiesel production. Included is growing zone data, relevant to farmers and agricultural scientists. This is unrelated to ethanol production, which relies on starch, sugar and cellulose content instead of oil yields.
Elaeis oleifera is a species of palm commonly called the American oil palm.It is native to South and Central America from Honduras to northern Brazil. [2] [3] [4] [5]Unlike its relative Elaeis guineensis, the African oil palm, it is rarely planted commercially to produce palm oil, but hybrids between the two species are, [6] mainly in efforts to provide disease resistance and to increase the ...
The Journal of Oil Palm Research (formerly known as Elaeis: The International Journal of Oil Palm Research and Development) is a quarterly peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal covering research on palm oil fats, oils, and oleo-chemistry.
Since then the Malaysian government, along with palm oil companies, have increased production of certified sustainable palm oil (CSPO). [79] Malaysia has been recognized by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil as the largest producer of CSPO, producing 50% of the world's supply, [80] and accounting for 40% of CSPO growers worldwide. [81]