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Saturated, and a landscape · 3 min
Palm oil, without the lecture
Cheap, stable, in everything from biscuits to chocolate spread. The health story is saturated fat. The other story is what it does to forests.
Shop the Spreads & oils aisleOn the nutrition side
Palm oil is high in saturated fat. In a biscuit, that shows up in the score. In a teaspoon of cooking fat, you’d still rather reach for olive oil.
On the planet side
We lower the planet mark when palm is in the recipe. Certified supply exists; most supermarket jars do not tell you which plantation they came from. Swap the daily offenders — chocolate spread, some biscuits, cheap instant noodles — and leave the rest alone.
The extras we mean
On our shelves
Real packs. Tap one — the score is the same as the rest of the shop.
