Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB)
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Price performance of palm oil and its products had generally improved in 2002. Local crude palm oil (CPO), for instance, showed a significant price improvement by registering at RM 1165.50 t-1 in January and at RM 1626.50 t-1 in December 2002, thus averaging at RM 1353 t-1 for the whole year. This increasing price trend […]
Production of palm oil by Malaysia in the first nine months of 2002 reached 8.704 million tonnes and exceeded total production for the same period of the previous year that totalled 8.649 million tonnes by 55 000 t or by 0.63% (Table 1). Monthly movements in production for the first five months of 2002 indicated […]
Trans fatty acids are produced when oils and fats containing unsaturated fatty acids are hydrogenated in the presence of a catalyst. Hydrogenation primarily increases the melting range of the unsaturated fats and thereby enables their incorporation into many solid fat formulations. When an unsaturated fat or oil is fully hydrogenated, all the unsaturated fatty acids […]
The α-SME is an alternative anionic surfactant to linear alkyl benzene sulphonates (LAS), fatty alcohol sulphates (FAS) and (the now maligned) branched alkyl sulphates (BAS). Historically, LAS and BAS were the workhorse surfactants for many detergent formulations. But BAS has now been banned from use by many countries due to its low biodegradation quality, leaving […]