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Viability of Synthetic Palm Oil versus Natural Palm Oil Dr. Mohd. Khairuddin Aman Razali & Dr. Kalyana Sundram

For several decades now, and ever since the early 1980s, palm oil has been called out as a problem for a number of different reasons. First it was its...

An Interim Economic Assessment of the COVID 19 risk – impact on world economy – OECD

The OECD released an Interim Economic Assessment of the Coronavirus risk and its impact on the world economy on 2nd March. Following is a summary of the report: The...

Palm oil holds promise for current and future food security

The progress of global food security hinges on the ability of the farming community to efficiently produce sufficient and nutritious food to satisfy local needs and meet growing global...

The palm oil miracle

Red palm oil’s intense colour is due to its carotene (pro-vitamin A) content; it has one of the highest carotene content in the plant kingdom. — MPOC By Datuk...

Is Palm Oil A Cancer Risk? Let Truthful Science Prevail!

In addition to the Nutella / Palm oil cancer link streamed extensively in the media, there have been accompanying reference associated to a study in Nature (doi:10.1038/nature20791; G. Pascual...

Malaysian Palm Oil Industry: Our Stand On The Nutella Ferrero Report and Misinformation about Palm Oil and Cancer

The palm oil industry is regularly confronted by misinformation which is then absorbed by the media and churned into a frenzy of inaccurate news articles and opinion pieces, designed...

Is breast milk dangerous for human consumption?

Expert puts Codex Alimentarius Commission’s food labeling paper about trans fats and saturated fats in proper perspective Is mother’s milk dangerous for babies? While it may seem absurd,...

Dangers of the ‘Low-fat’ Dogma

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), obesity worldwide has more than doubled since 1980. In 2014, over 1.9 billion adults (18 years and older) were overweight – 600...

Natural Immunity Boost

Vitamin E has long been known to be an antioxidant, capable of destroying potentially harmful free radicals in our body. There are 2 main types of vitamin E: tocopherols...