Spain: The food industry resumes interest in palm oil due to war

The agri-food industry has become interested in palm oil again due to the shortage of sunflower oil due to the war in Ukraine, after a few years in which it has tended to eliminate it due to its amount of saturated fats and the environmental problems associated with its production, reports Efeagro. Palm oil contains saturated fatty acids that are harmful to health, which, together with the problems of deforestation that it generates in the countries from which it comes, mainly in tropical Asia, has caused a movement against it that even led to 2017 several supermarket chains asked manufacturers to remove it. As an alternative, sunflower oil was used, but the Russian invasion has left Spain without the 500,000 tons of this fat that it imported from Ukraine (62% of total purchases). Sauce, pastry and fried companies are again interested in palm oil and are looking for alternatives with reasonable prices and continuous availability in large quantities Given this situation, sauce, ...