{"id":132582,"date":"2021-09-08T16:58:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T11:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?page_id=132582"},"modified":"2021-09-08T16:58:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T11:28:41","slug":"facts-about-palm-oil","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/facts-about-palm-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Facts about Palm oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Oil palm is a <strong>low maintenance, high yield, perennial plantation crop. <\/strong>It is one of the essential food items such as onions and pulses and widely used by a majority of Indians.<\/li>\n<li>Palm oil is now widely used for <strong>blending and adulterating refined oils<\/strong> and is omnipresent in packaged and processed foods.<\/li>\n<li>Fresh fruit bunches of palm yield <strong>at least five times more oil per unit of land<\/strong> compared to other oil seeds.<\/li>\n<li>Cheap palm oil, nearly all of it imported, <strong>accounts for over a third of India\u2019s edible oil consumption<\/strong>; overall, India imports 60% of its requirements.<\/li>\n<li>To add to this mix, <strong>India is also consuming genetically modified soy oil,<\/strong> which is imported from countries such as Argentina and Brazil.<\/li>\n<li>Together, imported palm and soy oil (12mt) account for close to half of India\u2019s annual edible oil consumption, damaging the future prospects of home-grown oilseeds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oil palm is a low maintenance, high yield, perennial plantation crop. It is one of the essential food items such as onions and pulses and widely used by a majority of Indians. Palm oil is now widely used for blending and adulterating refined oils and is omnipresent in packaged and processed foods. Fresh fruit bunches&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/facts-about-palm-oil\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Facts about Palm oil<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10328,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-132582","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}