Palm oil is denser than most vegetable. Specialists in oriental medicine consider it to be one of the most cooling and nutritious. The product is extremely useful when applied for foot massage, as well as for moisturizing dry hair. Sometimes it is recommended to put a little palm oil on the ends of the hair that are split after staining, or rub it into the roots an hour before washing.

Palm oil contains, on average, 50% saturated fat. Approximately the same indicators for animal products - lard, for example. But the plant source does not contain atherogens and can not be the only provocateur of atherosclerosis. However, most of the cardiologists around the world recommend their patients to avoid palm oil if cholesterol is elevated.

The product, unlike the artificial margarine, does not contain hydrogenated fats, and can not be considered a carcinogen. This statement is valid only for palm oil that has not been chemically treated. In addition, natural palm oil is a good source of oleic acid, an unsaturated fatty acid useful for optimizing lipid and hormone metabolism.

As advantages of palm oil is often called and its cheapness, which is undoubtedly a bonus in the conditions of the world economic and food crisis.

How to determine the presence of palm oil in products Palm oil has unique properties. It is almost identical to animal fats. And it can be "assimilated" into almost any product. Remember the scandal with the cheeses in which palm oil was found? Nutritionist L. Denisenko writes on his website that an average Russian who is not keen on a healthy diet and who eats "ordinary food" can eat up to 3.5 kg of this product per year.

Palm oil is added to dairy products and pastries to increase the shelf life of food, as well as to reduce the cost of production.

Most often you can find palm oil in:.

conventional cheeses. At home, you can take a small piece of cheese, and leave it in a warm room. Typical milk cheese withers, but the "palm" is slightly cracked;.

ice-cream. It is advised to rub it between your fingers if you get a film - the composition contains palm oil;.

Mellow butter should be melted at body temperature, up to 40 degrees. The palm does not melt at such a low temperature, but the natural will give way easily;.

sour cream, yogurts and sauces with palm oil can not change their consistency. But natural when stored at 1-2 degrees Celsius slightly thickens;.

milk with palm oil and drinking dairy products with it do not spoil a long time at room temperature.

Although this is not the only thing that extends the expiration date. Milk can be "long-playing" and because of simple pasteurization;.

condensed milk "against palm oil" experts advise to taste, they say that unnatural can be bitter.

And they also recommend that we read the information on the labels. If the product contains a certain vegetable oil, most likely, or vegetable fats, and the product - milk, most likely, so the manufacturer designated palm oil.

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