Nutrition Research on Palm oil and its Components: The PORIM Experience

Scientific understanding of the nutritional properties of palm oil and its components has been one of the several areas of research focus at PORIM. This research was initiated at the PORIM laboratories in 1983 using an animal model to understand palm oil’s effects on cholesterol and plasma lipoproteins.

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Environmental Management for the Palm Oil Industry

Over the last three decades, the Malaysian palm oil industry has grown to become a very important agriculture-based industry. Currently, there are more than 2.6 million hectares under oil palm and 290 palm oil mills to produce crude palm oil and palm kernel for further processing by refineries, palm kernel crushers and oleochemical companies. In […]