Who does not know that palm oil is not digested in the stomach, clogs the blood vessels, causing cancer and so forth? Probably all. In addition to specialists who know: from the point of view of benefit and harm palm oil is almost indistinguishable from butter.
Requirements to limit sales of palm oil are increasingly distributed worldwide, the Magazine writes LJ. However, if in Russia palm oil is considered to be a poison, in Europe and the US about its dangers. There are worried about the fate of orangutans.
Interest in the issue of palm oil once again spiked due to two events. First, Vladimir Putin during a “straight line” on April 14 stated that the content in palm oil products you need to write on the package “large letters”. The President noted that “this issue must be coordinated with partners in the EEU”, in particular, with Belarus. If agreement fails, “there is another way to introduce the excise tax on palm oil, but then it can lead to an increase in the value of the products”.
By coincidence, the same day the Finnish food company Fazer Group has published corporate report, according to which almost two thirds (64,7%) of palm oil, which is used in cooking products this concern is located in Russia. Four Russian enterprises Fazer are now producing bread, bakery and pastry, frozen pizza dough and prepared foods. As a result of 5400 tonnes of palm oil used by Fazer Group in 2015, our country had about 3500 so
The conclusion is clear: the Europeans themselves eat quality food, and the Russians sell any poison.
That palm oil is not digested in the stomach, clogs the vessels, causes cancer and actually is detrimental to human health in our country knows, probably, everyone. In addition to specialists who know exactly what the benefits and harms of consuming palm oil is approximately equal to the effects from eating butter.
The fact is that fats are essential for normal functioning of the human body. But fat is fat hatred. Nutritionists distinguish three types of fats: saturated — unhealthy, monounsaturated as it is useful and needed by the body, polyunsaturated — neutral, they neither harm nor good.
Now, the palm oil contains unhealthy saturated fats 57,2% and in cream of 63.6%. Useful monounsaturated fats in palm oil 28,5%, and in cream, at 27.3%. As you can see, the difference is small, and it is in favor of “palms”.
Note that the consumption of palm oil in the EU per person per year, approximately twice more than in Russia — 6 kg vs. 3.2 kg. and the length of life of the citizens, and the General health index in the EU on average significantly higher than ours.
Along with the growing consumption of palm oil in the world, in Europe and the USA is gaining momentum social movement against its use. However, this is not due to nutritional and medical properties of the palm.
Just to the beginning of the 21st century has become a universally recognized fact that the TRANS-fats found in Margarines, extremely harmful to human health. In this regard, the food industry became increasingly rely on palm oil as a healthier substitute for margarine. This led to a rapid expansion of oil palm plantations, which began a massive clearing of tropical forests in Malaysia and Indonesia.
In this regard, the international organization for the protection of nature sounded the alarm over the deaths of rhinos, elephants, tigers, leopards and orang-utans as part of the expansion of palm plantations. This is why today the protests against palm oil in developed countries.
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The main importers of palm oil are India, China and the EU. Over the past 10 years, imports of palm oil increased by 70%, and for 50 years — increased more than 80 times. About 80% of palm oil used in the food industry, the rest goes to the production of non-food products. Palm oil is the second on volumes of consumption of oil in Russia, after sunflower.
Meanwhile, Russia continues the talk about the dangers of palm oil. Representatives from domestic food companies are convinced that this is the result of machinations by foreign competitors. However, it’s more like that Russian officials saw in the issue of palm oil a new opportunity to replenish the state budget under the guise of caring for the health of the nation.
So, in February the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of economic development has proposed to introduce excise duties on palm oil in the amount of $ 200 per ton. Russian food processing companies are sure that nothing but harm, this initiative will bring, because to replace palm oil with other vegetable oils in some recipes, without violating the norms of technical regulations of the Customs Union, it is simply impossible.
Therefore in the Russian market sharply increase the presence of foreign companies. According to analysts, up to 20% of domestic confectionery products will be driven out of the market by products from countries of the Eurasian Union, produced using exactly the same palm oil, but not taxed by excise tax. Here is the substitution.
