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Palm oil is an important and versatile vegetable oil which is used as a raw material for both food and non-food industries. Palm oil facts:
Palm oil trees can grow up to 20 meters tall with an average life of 25 years.
Tree starts to bear fresh fruit bunches (FFBs) after three years.
Each piece of fruit contains 50% oil.
The nut, referred to as a kernel, at the center of each piece of fruit, is where palm kernel oil is extracted from.
Palm oil can be harvested 12 months of the year.
Each tree can produce 10 tonnes of fresh fruit bunches per hectare.
On average 3.9 tonnes of crude palm oil and 0.5 tonnes of palm kernel oil can be extracted per hectare.
Leftover fiber from the palm kernel mill process provides a product called palm kernel expeller. This is used in animal feed.
Palm oil requires 10 times less land than other oil-producing crops.
It is entirely GM free.