They Want to Make Palm Oil in a Lab. Without Palm Trees.

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• DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  One of the worst oils. Why does the food industry choose shit over good.

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  • silence7@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because it has a melting point where it’s solid at room temperature, and liquid when warmed to body temperature. That’s a very big deal.

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    • Daxtron2@startrek.website ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Perfect for suppositories

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    • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      why?

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  • lookorex@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    💲💲💲

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  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s a nearly perfect oil to work with and creates a creamy texture without any mixing or shaking contents. And it’s food safe. And production is easy to scale, which is why it’s such an environmental nightmare. Palm is the answer to a lot of questions product and production engineering had about improving both the product and making it cheaper without effecting cost.

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    • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “Food safe” is a weird word to use. It’s almost like it’s not food, but it’s ok to mix with food so the texture is better?

      That sounds like a nightmare. That sounds like how plastic is said to be food safe. But turns out…

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  • ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fried rice made with palm oil is fucking amazing.

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• Drusas@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Everyone should be avoiding palm oil. It's in a lot of products but still not that hard to avoid as long as you check the ingredients.

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  • silence7@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As long as we’re depending on consumers to read an ingredients list and avoid, it’s going to be used at a destructive scale. It takes either innovation (finding a substitute that’s cheaper) or regulation (ban) to make the kind of change we need.

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