Palm Oil Chemical Composition

The oil palm produces two types of oils; crude palm oil (CPO) from the fibrous mesocarp and crude palm kernel oil (CPKO) from the kernels. Although both oils originate from the same fruit, palm oil is chemically and nutritionally different from palm kernel oil. It is one of the only two mesocarp oils available commercially, the other being olive oil.
In conventional milling process, the FFB’s are sterilized and the fruitlets stripped off. The loose fruitlets are then digested and pressed to extract the CPO. The kernels are separated from the fibrous mesocarp in the press cake and later cracked to obtained CPKO.

Chemical composition
The palm oil and palm kernel oil are composed of fatty acids, esterified with glycerol just like any ordinary fat. Both are high in saturated fatty acids, about 50% and 80%, respectively. The oil palm gives its name to the 16 carbon saturated fatty acid palmitic acid found in palm oil; monounsaturated oleic acid is also a constituent of palm oil while palm kernel oil contains mainly lauric acid. Palm oil is the largest natural source of tocotrienol, part of the vitamin E family. Palm oil is also high in vitamin K and dietary magnesium.

Palm oil, being a vegetable oils, is cholesterol-free. Having a naturally semi solid characteristic at room temperature with a specific origin melting point between 33ºC to 39ºC, it does not require hydrogenation for use as a food an ingredient.

CPO is deep orange red in colour due to the high content of natural carotenes. Palm oil is rich source of carotenoids and vitamin E which confers natural stability against oxidative deterioration.

Fractionation separates oil into liquid and solid fractions. Palm oil can be fractionated into liquid (olein) and solid (stearin) components.

Palm oil has a balanced ratio of unsaturated and saturated fatty acids. It contains 38.7% oleic acid (monounsaturated fatty acid), 10.5% linoleic acid (polyunsaturated fatty acid), 44.3% palmitic acid, 1% Myristic acid, 4.6% stearic acid (saturated fatty acid) and 0.9% other acids. This composition results in an edible oil that is suitable for use in a variety of food applications.

New Britain Palm Oil Ltd (NBPOL) certified to be in conformance to RSPO Principles & Criteria

Source:Rspo web site.
Agrisoft-Systems congratulates to the achievement


The RSPO is pleased to inform that it has approved for BSI Management Systems Singapore to certify New Britain Palm Oil Ltd (NBPOL) estates in Papua New Guinea as conforming to RSPO Principles and Criteria with PNG National Interpretation indicators and guidance.

The public summary audit report by BSI Management Systems Singapore is available at:
[ http://www.rspo.org/resource_centre/NBPOL%20RSPO%20Certification%20Summary%20Report%20150908.pdf ]

New certificates for sustainable palm oil

Source: http://www.businessgreen.com
A programme to allow large palm oil users to prove that they are supporting sustainable production methods has gone into operation this week. The scheme aims to allow large users - typically manufacturers and retailers of food - to buy GreenPalm certificates that have been registered by palm oil grower United Plantations following an extensive sustainability audit by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO).

"The GreenPalm scheme will enable United Plantations to earn valuable extra income, in direct proportion to their output of sustainable palm oil," said GreenPalm spokesman Bob Norman.

The RSPO measured United Plantations performance against a number of criteria, including legality of operations, economic viability, best practice in operations and environmental and social responsibility.

The company will now be audited annually if it wishes to continue to issue credits.

"This was certainly no "greenwash"; it could not afford to be if we are to achieve our objective of delivering sustainable palm oil," said Norman.

Several more palm oil producers are currently going through the audit process and hope to be certified soon.

Palm oil is used in a vast range of everyday products, including soaps, chocolate bars, ice cream, ready-to-eat meals and margarine.

It is a major source of income for both Indonesia and Malaysia's economies, particularly since EU biofuel targets led to increased growing of the crop in respose to demand from biofuel firms.

European consumption of plant-based fuels is expected to soar from around three million tons last year to more than 30 million tons in 2010.

However, major concerns have been raised about the sustsinability of increased demand for the crop with a number of investigations from environmental groups such as WWF and Friends of the Earth finding that large tracts of rainforest have been illegally cleared to make way for palm oil plantations.

Under such circumstances the carbon savings delivered by palm oil derived biofuels are completely negated as a result of the deforestation with one study claiming that the biofuel can result in levels of carbon emissions that are significantly higher than fossil fuels.

A number of UK firms, including supermarket giant Sainsbury's, have responded to the discovery by pledging to ensure that all the palm oil they buy is sourced from sustainable plantations that do not contribute to deforestation. The RSPO now hopes that sustainability certificates will provide them with a credible means of doing so.

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