Palm oil is the most popular vegetable oil in the world, but not everyone is sold on it. Food experts told us why some people ...

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 ...

And along with using less land, the oil palm gobbles up significantly fewer pesticides and chemical fertilizers than coconut, corn or any other vegetable oil source. Palm oil’s big problem has ...

The switch to hydrogenated vegetable oil made the fries less tasty and nowhere near healthy, which led to another oil switch in 2007. The widespread use of palm oil is extraordinarily ...