01/08/2026
PALM OIL
This is something that I have been against since the mid 90’s when I was in school studying nutrition. As a nutritionist and a Holistic Health Practitioner it’s getting harder and harder to buy and consume healthy food anymore. Mostly I prepare as much of the food we eat but my beloved peanut butter has now fallen into the Palm Oil trap! I am so sad and I grieve the loss of this peanut butter that was just peanuts and sea salt to now added sugar and palm oil. So sad to see more and more organic food companies reverting to cheap and unhealthy additives. For your health, the health of the environment, the indigenous people of Malaysia and Indonesia and an end to forced labor, child labor and slavery please stop buying products with Palm Oil
Top Facts You Need to Know for Your Safety
•50 percent of packaged food has Palm oil
•It is a plant replacement for trans and animal fats because it’s low cost
•Palm oil comes from the fruit of the palm plant
•Malaysia and Indonesia are the highest producers of palm oil today
•Found in Ice Cream Sandwiches(everyone I looked at in the frozen section at my local grocery store), oils, cookies, donuts, peanut butter, chocolate, health and beauty products and so much more
•Palm Oil when heated produces a harmful contaminant which can lead to kidney toxicity or cancer
•Leading to deforestation in these areas at an alarming rate -98 percent will be eliminated in the next 8-10 years
Palm Oil provides zero health benefit and actually worse than zero if you consider the harmful effects of digesting these oils. In addition it is destroying the forests in these counties and has a global effect on our climate and humanity.
Science and humanity need to work together for this planet and every living thing on it. Just because we can invent something doesn’t mean we should use it. We need to ask a deeper question is this going to be what humanity needs to live a healthier and more meaningful life, a truly sustainable life? Or is it just for profit and greed?
My Thursday thoughts
References Food Evolution Org and San Diego Zoo and a lifetime of studying nutrition
