Carotino Red Palm & Canola Oil, 500ml

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Stroke: “Clinical investigation of the protective effects of palm vitamin E tocotrienols on brain white matter.” Cooking at high temperatures can damage some oils. Unless an oil is suitable, high heat may cause your food to taste bitter or scorched.

Center for International Forestry Research: “The impacts and opportunities of oil palm in Southeast Asia.” The message isn’t to add lots of oil because we think it’s good for us, because that’s just adding lots of calories,” she says. Oils used for cooking tend to get their name from the nut, seeds, fruits, plants or cereals they’re extracted from, either by methods of crushing, pressing, or processing. They’re characterised by their high fat content, including saturated fat, monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids. In recent years, coconut oil, which is around 90% saturated fat, has become the latest trendy “superfood”. It’s been hailed as a superfood (including that it's less likely to be stored in the body as fat and more likely to be expended as energy) – but one Harvard University epidemiologist calls it “pure poison”. Tocotrienols present as part of Vitamin E in CAROTINO® are known to inhibit the growth of cancer cells.Consuming too much saturated fat – more than 20g for women and 30g for men per day, according to UK guidelines – makes the body produce cholesterol in our bodies that increases the risk of heart disease. Red palm oil is less refined than bleached palm oil. The refinement process involved in producing red palm oil removes fewer nutrients, which makes red palm oil a potentially healthier alternative to standard palm oil.

Red palm oil is a great source of nutrients and antioxidants, but factors such as its saturated fat content can create complications for some people. The first and only molecular refined palm based cooking oil rich in Natural Carotenes, Tocotrienols & Tocopherols (Vitamin E) and Co-enzyme Q10American Journal of Clinical Nutrition: “Palm olein increases plasma cholesterol moderately compared with olive oil in healthy individuals.” Mediators of Inflammation: “Supplementation with red palm oil increases β-carotene and vitamin A blood levels in patients with cystic fibrosis.” Once we shift the balance of saturated fat to unsaturated fatty acids, we should then be able to choose the oil we prefer.”