Palm oil - have you heard of it?

It's not in any junk food. Read the label marked 'Ingredients' on the back of the product to see which oils were used.

Likewise there are other ways to make makeup, soap etc. It depends on what the manufacturer has selected as a formula.

Palm oil is used in Cadburys and in a lot of chocolate products it's true.

Rapeseed oil and sunflower oil are not healthy either.

It's widely used as a dairy substitute too it's practically in every icecream or icepop sold these days ,

I'm sure it's in toothpaste. And many other non junk food products. It is what it is, the planet is fcuked, it's up to everybody to make the most of it all.

That's a real avacado 🥑......

Green lumpy stuff in plastic containers doesn't always contain said Real Avacado 🤢

That was also a storyline of Glenroe many years ago - Dinny Byrne's free range eggs

Well maybe they should start checking the ingredients? If the point is to become more conscious whether for health or environmental reasons.

From google search:

"In 2014, the EU changed the law to say that any product containing palm oil must say so in the ingredients list. However, palm oil products have many other names! In non EU products, palm oil is often listed simply as “Vegetable Oil” or “Vegetable Fat”. Furthermore, every single one of the ingredients listed below actually comes from the palm oil tree. Have a look at some of the products you have at home and see how many contain at least one of these!

Palm Kernel, Palm Kernel Oil, Palm Fruit Oil, Palmate, Palmitate, Palm olein, Glyceryl, Stearate, Stearic Acid, Elaeis Guineensis, Palmitic Acid, Palm Stearine, Palmitoyl Oxostearamide, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-3, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Sodium Kernelate, Sodium Palm Kernelate, Sodium Lauryl Lactylate/Sulphate, Hydrated Palm Glycerides, Etyl Palmitate, Octyl Palmitate, Palmityl Alcohol, Laureth-7, Steareth-2, Cocamide MEA (fatty acid-derived) Cocamiede DEA (fatty acid derived), Stearamidopropyldimethylamine, Cetyltrimethylammonium chloride, Isopropylmyristate, Caprylic/capric Trigylceride, Fatty Isethionates (SCI), Alkylpolyglycoside (APG), Laurylamine oxide."

Yes pam oil is bad but when you eat something that tastes absolutely amazing like a dairy milk I expect it to be full of crap ingredients. Addictive food and wholesome ingredients unfortunately rarely go together

Yes I have heard of it, comes from palm trees I belive. I though plam trees were meant to be good for you though. Can't remember if it's pineapples or coconuts that grow on them.

Here's a great article about palm oil

Definitely not looking for an argument,but one side is Saying they are heathly on the other they are saying no ,

I use rapeseed for cooking along with olive oil and sesame seed oil depending on recipe and type of cooking,

I definitely don't use more than a teaspoon or two at a time

A lot of these fake foods that they are now pushing are basically precursors to soylent green. Get people used to eating highly processed food of dubious origin hidden behind a black box proprietary manufacturing process. Then in a decade or 2 when there is a recession start selling the soylent as a new exotic health food

Jesus I thought you had some scientific evidence that it was cancer causing or something like that. Palm oil is long known and while it doesn't make for great chocolate, it's not something I would be worrying about.

this stuff is good if you want to avoid dairy and palm oil, they have it in supervalu and dunnes. it's almost impossible to avoid if you're consuming processed foods regularly but if you do your homework it can be avoided, i've got soap and toothpaste sans palm oil easily enough.

No it's my way of saying that palm oil is long known about yet you come on here as if you had something new to say.

Strangley it would appear you are behind the curve only discovering this product exists and is widely used. Maybe you need to listen more closely to people like me.

I hear lots of reports of chocolate having gone to crap due to too much palm oil being used.

I can't say I've noticed the difference and will it stop me eating chocolate. No it won't.

Palm oil is terrible stuff, wrecking the rainforest due to plantations.