Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB)
Over the past decade, palm oil has become dominant in the global trade of vegetable oils (which include soyabean, canola, linseed, rapeseed, corn, cottonseed, peanut, sesame and sunflower) despite the controversy raised by the western media regarding the sustainability of its production and health issues. This is due to several advantages offered by palm oil […]
Chocolate chip cookies, peanut butter cookies and chocolate sandwich biscuits are some of the popular cookies available in Malaysian supermarkets. Kids just love to eat these cookies. Cookies is the term used in America to describe cereal-based baked products that have a low moisture content of 1%-5%, excluding any moisture from the fillings or icing. Cookies have a longer […]
In the late 1970s, China started to move from a closed and centrally planned economy system to a price-driven and market-oriented economy system. As a result, China became the world’s major trader in goods in 2014. The reforms brought huge development in the industrialisation and the modernisation of the country. Modernisation also brought in modern […]
Oxidation of low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C), the major cholesterol-carrying lipoprotein in plasma, is commonly implicated as an initiator of atherosclerosis. Increased LDL-C concentration is a major risk factor for atherosclerosis in humans (Carmena et al., 2004). Oxidised LDL-C is engulfed by macrophages, a type of white blood cell, and this rapidly leads to the formation of […]
Fractionation, a precursor of the modern edible oil and fat processing industry, is the oldest separation process. It plays an important role, especially in the palm oil industry, owing to the composition of palm oil which contains about equal amounts of saturated and unsaturated fatty acids. The physical nature of palm oil, exhibiting a semi-solid […]
The MPOB Technical Seminar (MTecS) series was newly introduced in 2014, and intended to be part of MPOB’s Technical Advisory Services (TAS) programme to provide and impart technical information on palm oil to industry members, university students, medical groups, academicians, researchers, government policy makers, organisations and general consumers. The programme is generally aimed at creating […]
Inter-laboratory comparison is one of the quality control procedures recommended by the Laboratory Accreditation Scheme of Malaysia (SAMM) MS ISO/IEC 17025:2005 (Clause 5.9.1) to monitor the validity of tests offered as services to clients. It provides one of the most expedient means of assessing the bias of one laboratory’s testing relative to other laboratories in […]
Tocotrienol is a natural form of vitamin E found abundantly in palm oil (Nesaretnam et al., 1998). Palm tocotrienol extracted from palm oil contains approximately 70% of the tocotrienol-rich fraction (TRF) and 30% of tocopherol (Gapor, 1995, Choo et al., 1997, Nesaretnam et al., 2000). Tocotrienols can also be found in cereal grains such as […]
The importance of dry fractionation as one of the most widely practiced modification processes for palm oil and its products cannot be denied. For decades, the versatility of palm oil has been expanded and enhanced using this technique which is fully reversible, inexpensive and environmentalfriendly. Palm oil not only can be fractionated using a single […]
Santan is a Malay term for coconut milk. Santan is derived from the flesh of old coconuts. In recent years, there is high demand for coconut santan due to our increasing population and a higher standard of living among domestic consumers who prefer tastier food. At the same time, there is also high demand for […]