Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB)
South Africa produces considerable quantities of oils and fats with total production averaging 480 000 t yr-1. Sunflower oil is the major oil with production at around 330 000 t annually. This is insufficient for the domestic consumption which in 2002 was around a million tonnes putting the per capita consumption at 23 kg yr-1. […]
Deep-fat frying is one of the most commonly used methods for the preparation and manufacture of foods. One of the fundamental objectives of frying is to make the food more acceptable. When a food is fried, part of the moisture it contains is replaced by the frying fat. The fat that has penetrated into the […]
A mammalian diploid cell (a cell having two complete sets of chromosomes) expresses ~2 x 10^4 mRNAs (messenger ribonucleic acids) from the genome of 1.40 x 10^5 genes. This well established observation implies the existence of complex mechanisms that selectively transcribe the cell-specific genes within the nucleus and coordinate the transcriptional processes with dynamic events […]
From 1990 to 2000, production of palm oil by Malaysia had been increasing yearly and this trend continued into the new millennium. Malaysia’s palm oil production increased from 11 804 million tonnes in 2001 to 11 909 million tonnes in 2002, i.e. by about 0.89% (Table 1). This is a small increase when compared to […]
It is a well-known fact that prices of oils and fats in the world market are very volatile. Prices fluctuate in a manner that reflects the supply and demand situations in the world. Any shortage will lead to an increase in prices and any surplus may result in a fall. As reflected in Table 1, […]
Some 20 million tonnes of oils and fats are used for various frying activities around the world (Gertz, 2000, 2001). In the United States, it was estimated that the fast food restaurants used several million tonnes of frying oils and fats annually (Warner and Neff, 2001). During frying operations, usually carried out between 160°C-190°C, complex […]