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How cooking-oil companies have been misleading consumers in India

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The Truth Bomb Number 2 - Reusing Refined Oil

refined oils extracted with hexane still contain around 0.8 milligrams of residual hexane per kilo of oil. The health risks increase even more when oils are toned into solid fats like shortening or margarine. Palm oil has up to 50% saturated fat content and it helps the process of solidification of other oils faster during the process of hydrogenation. Xiaomi Agarwal, the director of FMCG brand Pansari Group said that palm oil comes cheap.

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