what is palm oil and how is it extracted

                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
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  • Why is palm oil in everything?
  • And why is palm oil in practically everything? Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil that comes from the pulp of oil palm tree fruit. Native to West Africa, the oil palm tree is now most commonly grown in the tropics of Southeast Asia.
  • How is palm oil made?
  • Besides milling, palm oil is produced by cold-pressing the fruit of the oil palm since the 1990s. This type of artisanal palm oil is usually not further refined, so they keep the natural red color. It is bottled for use as a cooking oil, in addition to other uses such as being blended into mayonnaise and vegetable oil.
  • How is palm kernel oil extracted?
  • The pulp of the mature fruit typically contains 56-70% of edible oil. 5 The kernels (soft inner part of the seed) are separated at this stage and pressed independently to extract palm kernel oil. Crude oil is further refined through physical and chemical processes depending on what the end product should be.
  • How much oil is extracted from a palm tree?
  • Oil is generally extracted from the palm fruits of trees that are three to four years old. Researchers have estimated that a palm fruit generally contains approximately 30-35 percent oil and a year’s production of oil from one palm tree is approximately 40 kilograms. The oil palm tree yields two types of oil: