Compared with vegetable oil, soybean oil and salad oil, there are still fewer people who eat lard and palm oil, because in the eyes of most people, lard and palm oil are not safe oils, but there is nothing wrong with them. The only thing they know is that lard is high in fat.
Matters needing attention in edible palm oil
Although palm oil is not used as daily edible oil, it may be contained in many foods. Such as fried food, instant noodles, potato chips, biscuits, snacks, hydrogenated oil, blended oil, etc. Palm oil is regarded as an important oil of these foods, on the one hand, because hydrogenated vegetable oil is harmful and customers don't recognize it.
In order to increase sales, many manufacturers will use palm oil; On the other hand, palm oil contains a lot of saturated fatty acids, which is resistant to high temperature and has a high smoke point. Suitable for high-temperature frying food, which is a characteristic that ordinary vegetable oil does not have. Furthermore, palm oil is semi-solid and solid at room temperature, which is more conducive to maintaining the shape stability and crispness of food. Therefore, palm oil is widely used in many processed foods.