Current status of Malaysian crude palm kernel oil characteristics

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A one year crude palm kernel oil survey was conducted from May 1998 to April 1999 to monitor the oil characteristics. Nineteen kernel crushers from all over Malaysia participated in the survey. The mean composition of the major fatty acids was as follows: lauric acid, 47.9%, mystric acid, 16.7%, palmitic acid, 8.5% and oleic acid, 14.9%. The mean moisture and impurities content, free fatty acid content, iodine value (Wijs) and colour were 0.127%, 2.01% as lauric acid, 17.8 and 6.1 Red 60.4 Yellow respectively. These values indicate that the analysed crude palm kernel oil samples were within the Malaysian Edible Oil Manufacturer’s Association Domestic Contract and Specification requirement

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Polymorphic behaviour of blends of palm oil and palm olein with sunflower oil and palm kernel olein as affected by blending and interestification

Palm oil (PO) and palm olein with an iodine value of 60 (POo-I.V.60), were blended with sunflower oil (SFO) and palm kernel olein (PKOo) according to the conventional three-component mixture design. The effects of blending and chemical and enzymatic interesterification on the polymorphic behaviour of the ternary blends of PO/SFO/PKOo and POo-I.V. 60/ SFO / […]

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Ganoderma versus mycorrhiza

This Basal stem rot (BSR) disease, which has long been recognized as the most annihilating disease of field palms in Southeast Asia, still reigns as the number one killer of oil palms and serves a disastrous blow to palm oil production. With the identification of the causal agent, i.e. Ganoderma boninense, several control measures have […]

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