In many markets around the world, Doritos chips contain vegetable oils, and some clearly contain palm oil. Even the ones with only "vegetable oil" listed may in fact contain palm oil.
We use palm oil as an ingredient in a number of Nestlé products.
While PepsiCo is one of the largest global buyers of palm oil in the consumer products industry, our purchase in 2021 represented less than 1% of the global supply. It is used primarily in our snack food manufacturing because of its wide availability and shelf stability.
Best Known PepsiCo Brands using palm oil globally: Frito-Lay including Lay's and Cheetos, Chitato, Qtela and Gamesa.
Crisps. Palm oil can often be found in crisps as a cheap alternative to olive oil, but there are brands such as Eat Real Snacks who make healthy (but just as delicious) crisps from houmous, lentils, quinoa and even veggies without palm oil.
Palm oil is found in roughly 50 per cent of all packaged products on supermarket shelves including shampoos, baking oil, chocolate, cosmetics, chips, cookies, margarine and soaps.
For this reason, palm oil produced for McDonald's5 must be certified by the RSPO, which sets out strict criteria to minimize negative impacts to the environment and to communities in palm oil producing regions. In 2021, 100% of our palm oil globally was certified by the RSPO.
Palm oil is used as an ingredient in some of our products but the oil we use in our restaurants for frying is a blend of non-hydrogenated rapeseed and sunflower oil.
All KitKat products containing Palm Oil contain RSPO responsiblly sourced, sustainable palm oil.
What do Nutella, Hershey's Chocolate, Coca-Cola and Kellogg's cereal all have in common? All of these brands use palm oil as a key ingredient when making their products. Palm oil is the world's most demanded vegetable oil, making palm oil extraction an environmental crisis.
The main uses of palm oil in Japan are in the production of margarine and shortening and as a deep frying fat for the food manufacturing industry [1].
Colgate uses palm oil, palm kernel oil and palm oil derivatives in some of our soap products, toothpastes, antiperspirants, deodorants, and household cleaners.
The palm oil in Nutella® is carefully treated during processing, making it perfectly safe to ingest. The palm oil we use in Nutella® is 100% RSPO certified sustainable palm oil and can be traced back to the mills, guaranteeing that it does not come from plantations subject to deforestation.
Cadbury's milk chocolate does not contain palm oil, but the company has come under fire for its use of the ingredient in other products. Palm oil is a type of vegetable oil that is extracted from the fruit of the oil palm tree.
What common products contain palm oil? Apart from the majority of soaps, cleaners and shampoos on the market containing palm oil, many people are shocked to learn that Arnott's Tim Tams also contain palm oil. In fact, palm oil is so widely used in consumer products that it is increasingly difficult to avoid.
But with more than 40,000 outlets around the world, that's still more than 12,000 KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell restaurants that fry with palm oil that could be from destroyed rainforests. Furthermore, Yum! Brands has no policy for palm oil used in the rest of its non-fried products, including KFC's biscuits and gravy.
The scorecard reports that five local companies – Arnott's, Coles, Goodman Fielder, Metcash and Woolworths - are now using 100% Certified Sustainable Palm Oil.
Golden Arches fries in Australia are cooked in a canola oil blend of containing canola oil, high oleic canola oil, sunflower oil, and a small amount of palm oil. Palm oil production has attracted global criticism for damage done to Indonesian rainforests, the natural habitat of orangutans.
M&M's (Plain, Dark, Almond, and Pretzel varieties are safe for the moment, but last year, Mars changed the Peanut M&Ms recipe, which now includes palm oil, as does Dark Chocolate Peanut.)
Yes, most all brands and flavors of toothpaste contain palm oil. Even labels with clean labeling and other advertising typically contain it. If you are looking for an eco-friendly toothpaste, be sure it doesn't contain palm oil ingredients.
Our Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate is Palm Oil free. For Cadbury chocolates containing fillings, caramel and wafers, for the moment we are unable to make these without the inclusion of small amounts of sustainable palm oil. You can be assured that the palm oil we use in Cadbury products is certified as sustainable.
Oftentimes, “light yogurt” contains Vitamin A Palmitate. In addition, yogurt with add-ins — candy, cookies, sugary ingredients– all contain palm oil. Buy yogurts without mix-ins.