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It is related to two other edible oils: palm oil, extracted from the fruit pulp of the oil palm, and coconut oil, extracted from the kernel of the coconut. [2] Palm kernel oil, palm oil, and coconut oil are three of the few highly saturated vegetable fats; these oils give the name to the 16-carbon saturated fatty acid palmitic acid that they ...
Palm oil block showing the lighter color that results from boiling. Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil derived from the mesocarp (reddish pulp) of the fruit of oil palms. [1] The oil is used in food manufacturing, in beauty products, and as biofuel. Palm oil accounted for about 36% of global oils produced from oil crops in 2014. [2]
Palm kernel cake is a high-fibre, medium-grade protein feed best suited to ruminants. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Among other similar fodders , palm kernel cake is ranked a little higher than copra cake and cocoa pod husk, [ 5 ] but lower than fish meal and groundnut cake , especially in its protein value.
Oil from Elaeis guineensis is also used as biofuel. Human use of oil palms may date back to about 5,000 years in coastal west Africa. Palm oil was also discovered in the late 19th century by archaeologists in a tomb at Abydos dating back to 3000 BCE. [6] It is thought that Arab traders brought the oil palm to Egypt. [citation needed]
A fortune-teller conducting a palm reading, with lines and mounts marked out on the person's left palm Gold stamped front cover of The Psychonomy of the Hand. Palmistry is the pseudoscientific practice of fortune-telling through the study of the palm. [1]
[110] [111] Unsustainable palm oil agriculture has caused significant environmental and social problems, including deforestation and pollution. The production of biofuels can be very energy intensive, which, if generated from non-renewable sources, can heavily mitigate the benefits gained through biofuel use.
Palm stearin is the solid fraction of palm oil that is produced by partial crystallization at controlled temperature. [1] It is a stearin in the sense of stearins and oleins being the solid and liquid fractions respectively of fats and oils; not in the sense of glyceryl tristearate .
palmistry/palm reading → see somatomancy (Latin palma, ' palm ') papyromancy : by folding paper, especially paper money (Greek papūros , ' papyrus paper ' + manteía , ' prophecy ' ) pedomancy → see somatomancy (from podomancy , influenced by Latin pēs [ pēd- ], ' foot ' )