Four myths about palm oil.

 Sergey Mokhov “The Story of Death. How we fight and accept "

Palm oil is obtained from the fruit of the oil palm and is used in cooking around the world. However, its production can be harmful to the environment, and therefore in Western countries began to appear products marked "without palm oil". In Russia, such a mark also appeared, but for a different reason. We have popular horror stories about palm oil: from journalists, State Duma deputies and even representatives of the food industry, you can hear that palm oil is not digested or excreted from the body, prevents children from absorbing calcium, harms blood vessels and even causes cancer.

Let's deal with these myths separately.

Palm oil, like any other oil or fat, breaks down in the intestines into glycerin and fatty acids. “If a person is healthy and his pancreas produces enough lipase, digestion and absorption approaches 100 percent,” says gastroenterologist Aleksey Paramonov. - If there is little lipase, excess oil will come out in the feces. An example of oils that are not absorbed in the intestines are petroleum jelly and machine oils. But they are also called oils only because of their external similarity, being chemically hydrocarbons. Nature did not anticipate that we would begin to swallow oil refined products, and provided enzymes only for oils and fats of vegetable and animal origin ”.

"Deteriorates the quality of baby food"

Is it harmful for children to eat mixtures with palm oil? Not the oil itself is added to baby food, but palmitic acid isolated from it, and this is done to reproduce the composition of human breast milk, where this acid is also present. There are studies showing that palm oil palmitic acid blends are less absorbable than infant formula without it. Acid from palm oil forms insoluble compounds with calcium, which are excreted from the child's body with feces. On the other hand, there are studies that compare how much calcium babies absorb when feeding on breast milk, baby food with and without palm oil. And breast milk loses out in being the best food for babies. Thus, it is wrong to say that palmitic acid degrades the quality of baby food.

"Causes cardiovascular disease and cancer"

Palm oil, milk fat, beef and lard, coconut oil, and hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oils (vegetable oils that have been converted from a liquid to a solid state) are classified as solid fats. The most harmful thing that can be in solid fats is trans fats, it is they that cause significant harm to health, increasing the risk of developing cardiovascular and onc Four myths about palm oil.  ological diseases. Trans fats are found in meat and dairy products, hydrogenated oils. For example, 100 grams of butter contains 1.5 grams of trans fats, 100 grams of soft margarine contains 7.4 grams, and 100 grams of hard margarine (it is more often used in the food industry) - as much as 20 grams. But there are no trans fats in palm oil. It, like meat and dairy products, contains saturated fat. Saturated fat has long been considered nearly as bad for the cardiovascular system as trans fats, but new evidence suggests that moderate consumption of saturated fat does not significantly affect the risk of coronary heart disease, although it does raise cholesterol levels.

In the media, you can find information that palm oil has a carcinogenic effect, but its connection with cancer has not been established. A 2013 review of studies found that there were few publications on this topic and the evidence was inconsistent.

Another myth: allegedly, technical palm oil is being brought to Russia, and no one controls its quality. These words have nothing to do with the real state of affairs. The quality of palm oil supplied to Russia is controlled by the Customs Union, and it does not allow the product to be used in the food industry if the maximum permissible standards for toxic elements, radionuclides, molds, yeast, etc. are exceeded. There are special regulations for this.

But the following statement is no longer a myth:

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