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

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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 […]

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PALMOILIS – Your Information Partner in the Palm Oil Business

With the advent of the Internet resulting in an information overload amongst the researchers and knowledge workers of PORIM, there is an increasing need by the Palm Information Centre of the Institute to enhance its database service PALMOILIS launched in 1993 to be more user-friendly, more interactive by allowing users to interact online, more responsive […]

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