Red Palm Oil

Palm oil is applied to wounds, just like tincture, to aid the healing process.

Red palm oil not only supplies fatty acids essential for proper growth and development, but also it contains an assortment of vitamins, antioxidants, and other phytonutrients important for good health. Red palm oil gets its name from its characteristic dark red color. The color comes from carotenes such as betacarotene and lycopene and the same nutrients that give tomatoes, carrots and other fruits and vegetables their rich red and orange colors.

Palm oil is naturally reddish because it contains a high amount of (though boiling palm oil destroys the beta-carotene, rendering the oil colourless). Palm oil is one of the few vegetable oils relatively high in (like palm kernel oil and ). It is thus semi-solid at typical temperate climate room temperatures, though it will more often appear as liquid in warmer countries.

Palm oil is an edible plant derived from the pulp of the of the Elaeis guineensis.

Red palm oil contains a greater number of nutrients than any other dietary oil.