Palm oil, once the world’s cheapest edible oil, has seen a significant ... Many smallholders are hesitant to cut down aging ...

but the oil palm tree, Elaeis guineensis, is not native to Asia. It comes from West and central Africa, where archaeologists have found 3,000-year-old palm nuts buried in streambeds deep in the ...

Palm oil is a type of edible vegetable oil derived from the fruit of the oil palm tree (Elaeis guineensis ... polyunsaturated fats found in fish and nuts. Because palm oil is calorie-dense ...