Palm Oil Based Trans Free Solution

Palm oil is currently the world's premier vegetable oil and is said to be found in nearly half of all consumer products sold in supermarkets and grocery stores in all four corners of the Earth. Its popularity is primarily attributed to the fact that food and non-food product manufacturers traditionally prefer palm oil and its fractions for cost saving reasons as no or minimal further processing is needed for use in product formulations. With consumers trending away from dietary artificial fats found in highly processed fats, palm oil has found even greater acceptance in recent years. Here in the US, including the state of California, food regulators are also prodding food manufacturers to minimize the use of partially hydrogenated vegetable oils laden with artificial trans fat.

CalOils offers palm oil, its fractions and the blends as cost effective alternatives to partially hydrogenated vegetable oils. Palm oil, palm olein and their blends find uses as fry and shelf stable industrial fry oils in the manufacturing of ramen noodles, tortilla chips, potato chips and other snacks. In the manufacturing of frozen french fries for example, palm oil is used as the preferred blend component to improve fry performance of non-hydrogenated commodity vegetable oils like canola oil.

In semi-consistent fat products like fry shortening and bakery fats, blends of palm oil and its fractions are used as 100% cost-effective replacements for partially hydrogenated vegetable oils. Being non-hydrogenated, products with palm oil as ingredients have clean labels and, at the same time, allow manufacturers to make 'zero grams trans fat per serving' claims on labels.

Palm kernel oil - a co-product of the oil palm crop - and its fractions with their unique physical characteristics make ideal formulation partners along with palm oil and its fractions in the manufacture of non-hydrogenated hard stocks for use as ingredients in margarine and spreads formulations. CalOils has recently introduced palm and palm kernel oil based oil blends for print (stick) and tub margarines and spreads formulations.