Palm oil is everywhere—especially in packaged foods—so knowing its benefits and issues helps you make smarter choices. Nutritionally, palm oil sits between coconut oil and olive oil, with mixed ...

Palm leaves are traditionally used as natural wrappers for cooking food over fire or steam. They lend a subtle aroma while ...

An curved arrow pointing right. While palm oil is known for being cheap and controversial, red palm oil is artisanally made and much more expensive. The vibrantly colored oil is made from palm fruits ...

If you go to the grocery store and wander to the bakery aisle, you’ll find it there. The cosmetics aisle? It’s there too. Same for the shampoo section, the deodorants section and the laundry aisle.

Deforestation for palm oil persists in Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem, including inside a national park that’s supposed to be off-limits to plantation activity, a new investigation has found. The ...

Roads constructed for the oil industry have facilitated timber extraction in the Amazon for decades. Recent deforestation alerts show that this problem is ongoing. In Via Auca, one of the most ...

How did an ingredient most of us have never seen become so ubiquitous? Palm oil is everywhere—especially in packaged foods—so knowing its benefits and issues helps you make smarter choices.