Labelling in Australia Palm oil is most commonly labelled generically as 'vegetable oil' which can be any kind of oil like canola or soybean.
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.
Palm Plantations of Australia is a world leader in sustainable palm oil plantation development, management, palm seed production and export since the establishment of its first plantations in 1996.
It is used in many processed foods, including ice cream, chocolate, chips, cereals, frozen foods, margarine, baked goods and fruit juice. It may appear on labels as vegetable oil or be even less visible as a component of other ingredients.
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Other names for Palm oil include Palmate, Cetyl Palmitate and Octyl Palmitate plus more, such as Sodium Lauryl Sulfate which can be made from Palm Oil. With these different names you may be supporting the palm oil industry without even knowing! Be sure to check your labels.
Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) has stopped using palm oil for fast food sold in its Australian outlets, reports ABC News. KFC says the decision came after complaints from customers about its use of palm oil, which at times is linked to deforestation in Southeast Asia.
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.
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The spread is also palm oil free.
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.
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.
Colgate uses palm oil, palm kernel oil and palm oil derivatives in some of our soap products, toothpastes, antiperspirants, deodorants, and household cleaners.
Palm oil is a key ingredient used in manufacturing Kit Kat bars.
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.
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 potatoes we use to make our famous chips generally come from Tassie and Victoria and the high-oleic canola oil we use for cooking them is also Australian-grown.
In 2021, Kellogg sourced a total of 69,945 metric tonnes (MT) of palm oil (Crude Palm Oil and Palm Kernel Oil) in comparison to 65,233 MT in 2020, equating to an overall 6.7% increase.
Palm oil is in nearly everything – it's in close to 50% of the packaged products we find in supermarkets, everything from pizza, doughnuts and chocolate, to deodorant, shampoo, toothpaste and lipstick.
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All PepsiCo brands (We're looking at Kurkure Masala Munch and Uncle Chipps Spicy Treat) also contain palm oil.
Under current regulations palm oil can be labelled in the ingredient list using the generic terms 'vegetable oil' or by identifying the source of the oil, for example, as 'palm oil'.
The closest substitute for palm oil is babassu oil, which comes from a native Brazilian palm tree. It adds the same firming and moisturizing properties as coconut and palm. However, the babassu does have a lighter feeling on the skin and it absorbs quickly. You can replace some or all of the palm with babassu.