InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – In the recent days, Vantage video in Firstpost appeared on 28 January 2023 with the title, “Why Is Palm Oil Dangerous for You?” The video informed less information about palm oil and even it was misled.
The video showed that palm oil was not safe to consume and might make serious diseases, such as, heart attack and cancer. Considering the appearance of the video, Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC) confirmed that palm oil is scientifically not proven to make coroner heart attack or cancer if it is consumed in a very long time.
MPOC responded that the video was out of date and had no basic data, just like Jocelyn Zuckerman (the author of planet palm) firstly mentioned, saturated fat and palm kernel oil were used as the substitutions to natural cream. Then oil would be dense in room temperature and it was not good if it got into artery if it was consumed in many numbers.
England medical researchers in 1997 came to a conclusion that palmitate acid and saturated fat increased numbers of blood cholesterol and increased heart attack disease.
The study of Mauritius showed that the changing subsidy of the government from palm oil to soyoil decreased blood cholesterol 15% in the society but the research was running in 1980s. There have been the latest researches.
Glycidyl esters (GEs) was formed if it was applied in higher temperature. GE could be digested and separated to be glycidol in the body and it was proven to increase benign and malignant tumor in rats.
The researches about palm oil are out of date. MPOC tries to deliver the latest researches and told that palm oil is safe to consume. Here are some latest scientific researches and facts about palm oil to solve the evil claims on palm oil above.
The first, palm oil is highly nutritious oil which is safe to consume because like other oils, it has healthy components from balance diet. Palm oil and its fraction (palm olein and stearin) have the same digestion capability, just like other fats and oils that men consume.
“Palm oil and its fractions (palm olein and stearin) have been acknowledged by Codex alimentarious – an international level - food standard as good fat/oil for men to consume,” MPOC noted as InfoSAWIT quoted from its official page.
Many experts in the world also confirmed that palm oil is safe and nothing to worry about. There have been more 165 nutrition studies in the world about palm oil which the goal is about to deliver understanding how palm oil has effects to blood lipid, and lipoprotein.
Does it need the other research to confirm? Here are some research conclusions to human that showed palm oil is safe to consume based on its recommendation.
Siri-Tarino et al., 2010. Am J Clin Nutr., 91(3): page 535-46, in their research showed that there is no significant proof to conclude that saturated fat diet has something to do with coroner heart attack, cardiovascular or stroke diseases.
Then, De Souza et al., 2015. BMJ, 351: page 3978, revealed that this is no connection between total fat consumption and heart attack ischemic, or type 2 - diabetes or deaths because of the diseases.
Then, Chowdhury et al., 2014. Annals of internal medicine, 160(6): page 398-406, in their studies did not clearly support the recommendation to encourage doubled – unsaturated fat consumption and low saturated fat.
Then, Fattore et al., 2014. Am. J.Clin. Nutr, 99: page 1331–50 revealed that palm oil would not threaten blood lipid and coroner heart attack if being consumed.
MPOC also noted, there have been clinical studies published about human to palm oil. They equalize palm oil with other low saturated fat, such as, olive oil, canola oil that have the same total cholesterol, LDL and HDL in human.
The latest study in 2014 published by Instituto Mario Negri for Pharmacology in Milan, (Clinic Nutrition Journal of America by Dr. Elena Fattore and Roberto Fanelli) confirmed this and showed that there is no proof saying that palm oil is dangerous. (T2)
