It’s an edible vegetable oil that comes from the fruit of oil palm trees, the scientific name is Elaeis guineensis. Two types of oil can be produced; crude palm oil comes from squeezing the fleshy ...

Palm oil can be found in many things, from make-up to pizza, soap to chocolate. Rosette Ale, a sustainable fashion business owner, explains how the demand for palm oil is unfortunately leading to ...

Iceland is the first supermarket to announce it will stop using palm oil as an ingredient in all its own-brand food - here’s everything you need to know about the environmentally-destructive ...

Palm oil is everywhere, especially in many of the processed foods we eat from instant noodles to chocolate. It may not be ...

Versatile, cheap, and useful, palm oil is the most widely used vegetable oil in the world. But it has also caused deforestation and community conflict in the tropical countries where it is cultivated.

Palm oil is used in everything from cosmetics to food to soap. There is enormous demand for it. But it is hugely controversial because it involves the clearing of tropical rainforests to grow palm ...

Trans fats have largely been removed from our diets, but saturated fats are found in some plant-based oils like coconut oil and palm oil. To find out more about palm oil, we spoke with Kat Benson ...

MalaysiaBunches of oil palm fruit harvested by hand are trucked to a mill for processing in mainland Malaysia. Oil palms yield more oil per acre than do other crops. But soaring demand for the ...

Palm oil used in supermarket products is not fully traceable despite it being called "100% certified sustainable". Research by Radio 4's You & Yours found Tesco performed the best, yet only 67% of ...

It’s one of the most contentious beauty ingredients around - but is ditching all palm oil the way forward? Stylist investigates. Saving our planet is no easy task. But whether it’s finding out ...