Palm oil contains about 50% saturated fat, which increases "bad" LDL cholesterol. But it is better for you than other tropical oils like coconut oil.

Palm oil is in bread, instant noodles, Girl Scout cookies, lipstick, Nutella and ice cream, to name a few. People around the world use it to cook daily. But to make all of that oil, ...

“Palm oil has been a pervasive problem for a while,” said Ashley Thomson, a senior policy adviser at Global Witness. “What this analysis shows, in the other commodities as well, is just how ...

Cultivation of palm for the purpose of oil extraction has been rapidly expanding since the 60s. In 1961, 3.6m hectares of land was used globally for production of palm oil, in only 46 years that ...