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What is palm oil?

Palm oil is an important and versatile vegetable oil which is used as a raw material for both food and non-food industries. Oil palm tree, also known as Elaeis Guineensis or African palm oil. The oil palm tree can be harvested all year round. Palm oil facts Palm oil trees can grow up to 20 metres…

Palm Oil Prices

Palm oil is the largest vegetable oil in the world in terms of produced volume, just ahead of Soybean oil. Palm oil is a tropical oil and the production takes place almost entirely in Asia. The mesocarp (or fruit) of the oil palm has an oil content of about 50% and the palm kernel has…

Edible Palms: An Introduction to Palm Fruits

At first you may have to rack your brain a bit to think what sort of fruits come from palms. You might be surprised how many do, and some of these fruits are among some of the most important fruits from an economic as well as health point of view. Coconut is the first fruit…

Oil palm fruit: an original model

Oil palm fruit is exceptionally rich in lipids and provitamin A carotenoids, which have essential nutritional properties for humans. What are the molecular mechanisms underlying these qualities and how are they integrated within the fruit ripening process? By using the very latest transcriptome sequencing technologies, scientists from CIRAD/IRD have just revealed the molecular determinants of…