For millennia humans have boiled and pounded their fruit to extract cooking oil ... traders imported African palm oil, using it for a growing number of products, from soap to margarine to candles.

Following is a transcript of the video. Palm oil is a cheap and ubiquitous. It's used in thousands of everyday products and is the most widely consumed vegetable oil on the planet. You can get a ...

“Consider prioritizing using more olive oil and avocado oil in cooking and consider choosing foods with palm oil or coconut oil “here and there,” rather than as a foundational fat ...

and it’s also odourless and colourless so doesn’t alter the look or smell of food products. In Asian and African countries, palm oil is used widely as a cooking oil, just like we might use sunflower ...

But Wang said that smoke point did not tell you much about how stable an oil was or how many harmful by-products ... comparison to palm oil, which was widely used in baking, cooking and in ...