Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB)
Deep fat frying has become a common way of cooking food such as potato crisps and French fries. The choice of the frying fat depends on many factors such as availability, price, frying performance, flavour and stability of the product during storage (Sebedio et al., 1996). As deep fat frying is normally carried out at […]
Ice cream is a frozen food product. It can be prepared by freezing a pasteurized mix with agitation to incorporate air. The basic ingredients in ice cream are fats, milk solid non-fat, sugar, emulsifier, stabilizer and water. Each ingredient plays a major role in imparting texture, flavour and stability. The structure of ice cream is […]
Crude palm oil is one of the richest plant source of carotenoids in terms of retinol (pro-vitamin A) equivalents. Carotenoids are naturally occurring C-40 plant pigments. Their conjugated polyenic chromophore is responsible for the characteristic light absorbing properties. Hydrocarbon and oxygenated carotenoids are termed carotene and xanthophyll respectively. Carotene, in particular α-carotene and β-carotene have […]
Postprandial lipid metabolism refers to the series of metabolic processes which occur following the ingestion of a meal containing fat (Roche, 2000). The responses of plasma lipoproteins during absorption of dietary fats have gathered increasing interest due to the fact that man by eating regular meals, spends most of the time in the postprandial phase […]
Malaysia produced 7.549 million tonnes of crude palm oil in the first nine months of 2000. This was a decline of 60 714 t or 0.79% over production during the same period of the previous year. Monthly production for the first three months in 2000 was higher than those for the corresponding period in 1999 […]
Oils and fats registered lower prices in 1999, following the peaks in the previous year. The low price scenario was mainly due to the over supply of oils and fats, and in particular Malaysian palm oil. Malaysian palm oil production had increased significantly from 8.3 million tonnes in 1998 to 10.6 million tonnes in 1999, […]