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 convenient food manufacturing because of its wide availablility and shelf stability.
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.
Palm oil is a key ingredient used in manufacturing Kit Kat bars.
The 12 companies are Colgate-Palmolive, L'Oreal, Hershey, Kellogg's, Kraft, Mars, Mondelez, General Mills, Heinz, Nestlé, PepsiCo, Reckitt Benckiser and Unilever.
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.
There may be traces of sulphites (less than 10 milligrams per kilogram). 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 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.
Palm oil is in around 50% of supermarket foods, but Australian law does not require it to be labelled as an ingredient. You can choose any product made by the brands featured in this guide knowing they either use no palm oil at all or 100% Segregated Certified Sustainable Palm Oil, the choice is yours.
However, Maltesers chocolates are not suitable for vegans and they do contain palm oil which some people choose to avoid due to its links to deforestation.
Colgate uses palm oil, palm kernel oil and palm oil derivatives in some of our soap products, toothpastes, antiperspirants, deodorants, and household cleaners.
You can be assured that the palm oil we use in Cadbury products is certified as sustainable.
Does Cadbury Chocolate Contain Oil? Cadbury's confectionery is made with palm oil, which is one of the least expensive and most versatile vegetable oils. Mondelez, one of the world's largest palm oil buyers, now owns the Cadbury chocolate brand after it was sold by the Cadbury family in the 1950s.
These companies produce palm oil free chocolate
Divine, Beyond Good, Chocolat Madagascar, Pacari, Moo Free, Booja-Booja, Seed and Bean, Montezuma, Tony's Chocolonely, Fairafric, Vego, Willies, Ombar, Mia.
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.
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups – Their original version does not contain palm oil but all of their others do. M&M's – Milk Chocolate M&M's, Dark Chocolate M&M's, and Almond M&M's don't contain palm oil but Peanut M&M's do.
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.
Is Lindt using Palm Oil and is it sourced sustainably? Palm oil, palm kernel oil, and their fractions are used in limited amounts in certain fillings of our chocolate. Lindt & Sprüngli buys less than 0.01% of the global palm oil harvest.
Arnott's is one of only three companies in the world recognised for achieving the next step of using 100% segregated certified sustainable palm oil (which means that the CSPO is kept separate from uncertified palm oil all the way from the mill to the end user).
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.
Labelling in Australia
Palm oil is most commonly labelled generically as 'vegetable oil' which can be any kind of oil like canola or soybean.
Malaysia with a share of 96% (112 million US$) Singapore with a share of 2.24% (2.59 million US$) Colombia - 526 thousand US$
It is now widely used in the Chinese food industry, particularly in the manufacture of instant noodles, snack foods, milk powder, margarine, and shortening.
Chips: Lay's Classic Salted Chips
All PepsiCo brands (We're looking at Kurkure Masala Munch and Uncle Chipps Spicy Treat) also contain palm oil.
Nestle can no longer claim to use certified sustainable palm oil in its chocolates and other products, after being suspended by the group responsible for certification. But Greenpeace says RSPO has its priorities wrong, and is ignoring more serious violations by its members including deforestation.