palm oil

Worldwide palm oil production during the 2005-2006 growing season was 39.8 million , of which 4.3 million tons was in the form of oil. It is thus by far the most widely-produced tropical oil, and constitutes thirty percent of total edible oil production worldwide

The world's largest exporter of today is , producing about 45% of the world's supply. Since 2007, emerged the world's largest producer of producing approximately 50% of world volume.

The oil palm originated in but has since been planted successfully in tropical regions within 20 degrees of the equator. There is evidence of use in . In the , or Congo DRC , precisely in the Northern part, not far from , local people produce this oil by hand. They harvest the fruit, boil it to let the water part evaporate, then they press what is left in order to collect the reddish, orange colored oil.

The best cooking oil use for vegetable and other soups