Dutch food industry shifts from sunflower to palm oil

Dutch food producers have enough stocks of vegetable oil for another 4-6 weeks. In the near future, due to interruptions in the supply of new oil delivery is not expected. Therefore, companies in the food industry are already looking for alternatives to sunflower oil, according to the site nieuweoogst.nl. Sunflower oil is used, for example, for deep-frying chips and french fries, but it is also used in margarine, biscuits and baby food. An alternative could be, for example, rapeseed, linseed or palm oil. However, this will require changes to be made to labels and packaging to alert the consumer to changes in the composition of the product. Switching to other ingredients and adapting packaging will incur unnecessary costs and inevitably lead to higher prices. As the demand for other types of vegetable oils grows, their price increase is also inevitable. Meanwhile, a number of manufacturers of semi-finished products have already switched to palm oil. For example, French fries ...