Partnering palm and soybean oils

AHA recommendations and USFDA legislated health claims achieved by partnering

palm and soybean oils

Kalyana Sundram and Yusof BasironNature has been generous in endowing palm oil with a composition that is uniquely balanced between the saturated and unsaturated fatty acids. Even when programming this higher level of saturates in the oil, nature’s consideration for optimisation was already apparent – the biology of the oil palm dictates that this saturate be in the form of palmitic acid (C16:0), the same saturated fatty acid that is most abundant in our body and throughout most of nature’s creations.