Malaysia
PALM OIL
PALM OIL
Palm oil is the product of extracting,cooking and pressing the flesh of the palm fruit.
crude palm oil (orange-red in color) is one of the richest-natural sources of the carotene precursors of Vitamin A. Palm oil has 15 times more vitamin A activity than carrots and 300 times more than found in tomatoes.It is also used as feed stocks in the oleo chemical industry namely fatty acids, fatty esters, glycerin, fatty amines and fatty alcohols.It is applied directly to produce expoxidised palm oil (EPO). Its Main application is as a stabilizer/plasticizers for rubber and poly vinyl chloride (PVC). Another application of EPO is as an epoxy-resin for surface coating.
