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Palm oil is usually a fruit mesocarp-derived oil that is often used as a vegetable oil in many countries worldwide. Due to the presence of various essential nutrients, it provides many health benefits, they help in improving vision, preventing certain kinds of cancer, improving cardiovascular health, etc.

Palm oils are skin and hair-friendly because it is rich in Vitamin K, antioxidants, unsaturated fats, zero Trans-Fat, etc. It particularly uplifts the immunity of the body.

Palm Oil

Palm oil, an edible vegetable oil rich in saturated fats and free of trans fats, is derived from the mesocarp (reddish pulp) of the fruit of the oil palms, mainly the African oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) and to some extent from the American oil palm (Elaeis oleifera) and the maripa palm (Attalea maripa).

Palm mesocarp oil which is 49% saturated, is generally reddish in colour because of high beta-carotene content. Crude red palm oil that has been refined, bleached and deodorized, a common commodity called RBD palm oil, does not contain carotenoids. It is semisolid at room temperature. Palm oil is a common cooking ingredient in the tropical belt of Africa, Southeast Asia and parts of Brazil.