Why should you eat palm oil?
Palm oil is one of the saturated fats. Saturated fats have been seen in a bad light over the centuries. The Dutch nutrition center says that these are not good for us. But native people ate a lot of these saturated fats. Full-fat dairy, such as raw milk, raw-milk yogurt and palm oil for baking. These fats are good for the brain and eyes according certain people. Of course there are studies that contradict this and the Dutch nutrition center also says that you should eat little fat, but modern nutrition is far from what it used to be. And there is nothing wrong with eating fat, because you also need fat!
Where does palm oil come from?
In West and South West Africa you have many palm trees. The fruits of this can be picked (and sometimes they fall off) and then they can be boiled in water. Then you can pound the fruit with a mortar, and after this, the oil is released. The pulp then goes back into the pan and you cook it again. You will see that the red palm oil will float on top of the water. You can scoop these out of the …