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Palm Oil Dependency

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What Is Parm Oil and Its Texture?

Palm oil is an absolutely key ingredient in food, like substances. So flavour's important, but flavour can largely be gen rated, artificially by brilliant food engineers. What makes people go back for the second mouthful and the third mouthful - that's what parm oile can supply. It has these amazing properties imen it's semi solid at room temperature, so it has a kind of butteriness in the mouth. Textually, it can make things crisp. It can make things flaky. It has all of these incredible properties that the food industry prizes. And then it's cheap. It's cheaper than other fats by an unimaginable margin. I mean, you get ten times

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