Each year, New Zealand imports about 2 million tons of palm kernel expeller (PKE), a by-product of palm-oil processing in Indonesia and Malaysia, to feed dairy cows, at a cost of NZ$800 million. But ...
If you read ingredient labels, you’ll see palm and palm kernel oil everywhere: in bread, chocolate, frozen pizza – even soap, toothpaste and cosmetics. No wonder the oil palm tree, whose fruit and ...
Palm oil comes from the fruit of oil palm trees (Elaeis guineensis) and is suitable for consumption. Oil palm trees only grow in tropical regions, being native to Africa and brought to southeast Asia ...