It’s very convenient but terrible for you.
Was wondering whatever happened to the realization that hydrogenated oils were bad for you.
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Love my unprocessed peanut butter, but the processed stuff is great for making Alton Brown's peanut butter fudge.
Can anyone explain this to me?
Palm oil is used to stabilize the product. Palm oil is problematic for environmental reasons. Similar to other foodstuffs farmed industrially there are other ethical problems as well.
The concerns often expressed for peanuts, palm oil, and other foods high in saturated fats, are mostly related to purported health effects related to their consumption. i.e., people think they're bad for you to eat. Whether they are or are not is still deliberated and, I think, quite beside the point.
We need to stop shoving palm oil into things.
One detail's missing from your explanation : most/all palm oil is produced through deforestation typically near the equator. It's an absolute disaster.
And the palm tree drain the ground so much that they typically need fresh soil after a few harvests. It's disgusting.
I think it is because they use an insane amount of shortening to keep it the consistency of, well, shortening.