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	Oil palm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The African Oil Palm Elaeis guineensis is native to west Africa, occurring between Angola and Gambia, while the American Oil Palm Elaeis oleifera is native to tropical Central America and South America.
		Oil palms are grown for their clusters of fruit, which can weigh 40-50 kg.
		For each hectare of oil palm, which is harvested year-round, the annual production averages 10 tonnes of fruit, which yields 3,000 kg of pericarp oil, and 750 kg of seed kernels, which yield 250 kg of high quality palm kernel oil as well as 500 kg of kernel meal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oil_palm (477 words)

	Oil Palm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The mesocarp, from which palm oil is derived, is fibrous and oily, and the seed is opaque white, encased in a brown endocarp; palm kernel oil is derived from seeds.
		Palm oils are used in a wide variety of foods, primarily margarine, shortening, and vegetable cooking oil.
		Palm oil is used as a replacement for cocoa butter and butter fat, and in ice cream and mayonnaise.
	www.uga.edu /fruit/oilpalm.htm (3545 words)

	Chapter 5: Tree Fruits & Nuts and Exotic Tree Fruits & Nuts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The oil palm or African oil palm is one of the leading oil palms of industrial importance as a source of vegetable oil and fat.
		The oil palm is erect, monoecious, and may reach 30 feet in height with a trunk or bole 12 inches or more in diameter.
		The oil palm male and female inflorescences open at different times on the plant; thus, rarely is the plant self-fertilized (Wrigley 1969).
	gears.tucson.ars.ag.gov /book/chap5/oil.html (614 words)

	Red Palm Oil - The Congo Cookbook (African recipes) www.congocookbook.com - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Palm nuts, the fruit of the African oil palm, are not much bigger than grapes and grow in large bunches.
		The red palm oil, which is easily extracted from the pulp of the fruit of the African oil palm, should not be confused with the oil which can be obtained by crushing the hard inner kernel.
		Palm oil is usually associated with Central and Western Africa, where a commercial trade developed in the 19th century.
	www.congocookbook.com /c0226.html (865 words)

	KISSAN - Kerala
		The oil palm tree is a tropical plant which commonly grows in warm climates at altitudes of less than 1,600 feet above sea level.
		Oil palm grows best in areas with a mean maximum temperature of 30-32 ºC and on an average of at least five hours of sunlight.
		Oil palm is planted in the main field in triangular system at spacing of 9 m accommodating 140 palms per ha.
	www.kissankerala.net /kissan/kissancontents/oilpalm.htm (1678 words)

	Africas' Golden Palm
		Oil yields are highest from within 10 degrees of the equator, although plantations have been successful up to 17 degrees from the equator.
		The yield of oil per hectare of oil palm is as much as 9 to 10 times that of a yield of soybeans, with 30-40t/ha of fruit not being uncommon.
		However, if people are producing oil palm products for export, they don't have time to produce their own food for eating, so the industry needs to be structured in such a way that it is not too exploitative and labourers earn enough to buy a decent diet.
	www.scienceinafrica.co.za /2005/september/palm.htm (556 words)

	Multipurpose Palms CHAPTER 8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Oil is a common constituent of seeds in general and all of the world's great sources of oil are from seed.
		Palm oils, like animal fats, contain large amounts of these undesirable fatty acids, much more than the common oils from corn, soy, sunflower, peanut, etc. Among people who tend to get too much fat in the diet, Americans, for instance, it is better to limit the intake of palm oils.
		Nevertheless, palm oils enjoy in the United States and elsewhere a tremendous market for their uses in foods, in margarine and cooking fats, and they are included in many baked and elaborated products.
	www.agroforestry.net /pubs/palmbk/Chapter8.html (1079 words)

	Palm Oil - Definition and Characteristics
		Palm Oil is the reddish-orange oil derived from the pulp of the fruit of the African palm tree.
		Palm Oil is from the fruit of a palm tree, (Elaeis guineensis), native to tropical West Africa and cultivated in Africa, Indonesia, Malaysia, and tropical America as the source of palm oil.
		Palm oil has similar characteristics to tallow in soaps, and has been used in soap-making since about 1850 when the quantity of available tallow was insufficient to meet the demand for soap.
	www.soaperschoice.com /soapoils/palmoil.html (268 words)

	Palm Fruit Photos
		The pejibaye palm is a native Costa Rican palm.
		Although date palms are naturally pollinated by the wind, this is not an effective method for maximum fruit yield in cultivated orchards, especially since the groves are composed of predominately female trees.
		Palm oils are used primarily for soaps and candles, but they are also found in margarines and candy.
	waynesword.palomar.edu /ecoph10.htm (2632 words)

	Elaeis guineensis
		Palm oil is extracted from the fleshy mesocarp of the fruit which contains 45-55% oil which varies from light yellow to orange-red in color, and melts from 25° to 50°C. For edible fat manufacture, the oil is bleached.
		The fatty composition of the oil is 0.5-5.9% myristic, 32.3-47.0 palmitic, 1.0-8.5 stearic, 39.8-52.4 oleic, and 2.0-11.3 linoleic.
		Because oil palm is monoecious, cross-pollination is general and the value of parent plants is determined by the performance of the progeny produced in such crosses.
	www.hort.purdue.edu /newcrop/duke_energy/Elaeis_guineensis.html (2608 words)

	4. The African oil palm
		Palm fronds are used for mulching and the mill by-products are burnt to generate energy for the mill.
		Palm fronds from the plantations are also burnt for heat generation, or used for mulching in the plantations.
		Considering their poor properties and the fact that 75 percent of the world’s oil palm plantations grow in the two major Asian timber producing countries, where timber from forests is still abundant, it is unlikely that oil palm stem material will become an important substitute for solid timber.
	www.fao.org /DOCREP/004/AC126E/ac126e05.htm (961 words)

	Kew: A year at Kew: Plants: Palms
		The African oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) is the highest yielding of all tropical oil-producing plants.
		Palm oil is pressed from the orange flesh of its fruits and palm kernel oil from its seed.
		Most palm oil is used in margarine, ice-cream, coffee whitener and other food products, but some is also used as animal feed and in the manufacture of soaps, lubricants and candles.
	www.rbgkew.org.uk /plants/palms/africanoil.html (158 words)

	Non Veggies: Central African Dishes: Poulet Nyembwe
		Palm nuts, the fruit of the African oil palm, are available only in the tropics.
		Moambé (or Mwambe) or Nyembwe Sauce (also called Palm Butter) is made by boiling the palm nuts fruits and discarding the skin and nut kernels; the remaining oily reddish pulp is the moambé or nyembwe sauce (or palm butter, as it is known in English).
		Squeeze the palm nuts with your hands to remove all the fruit and oil from the palm nuts.
	www.bawarchi.com /nonveg/centralafrican3.html (475 words)

	Feeding pigs in the tropics
		Oil extraction: An oil press, into which hot water is injected, is used to separate the crude oil from the solid or fibrous-like material containing the nuts.
		Palm oil sludge is the material that remains after decanting the palm oil mill effluent (Devendra et al., 1981).
		on Oil Palm in Agriculture in the Eighties.
	www.fao.org /docrep/003/w3647e/W3647E04.htm (4946 words)

	Palm oil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The source of palm oil is the fleshy fruit of a tropical, spineless palm tree, native to western Africa but extensively cultivated in other tropical countries.
		Various methods are used to extract the oil from the pulp, including pressing or centrifuging or macerating the pulp and boiling in water, the oil floating and skimmed off.
		The oil is similar to coconut oil, and is used mainly in margarine and soap.
	www.hort.purdue.edu /newcrop/Crops/Palm_oil.html (211 words)

	The Oil Palm - Book Information
		With palm oil production increasing by more than 50% in the last decade of the twentieth century and set to double in the next twenty years, it has never before been so important to understand the history, use and cultivation of this fascinating crop.
		The oil palm is also compared to the soya bean and other oil crops, and the recent history of the price of oil palm products is considered in the light of this.
		The classification and morphology of the oil palm
	www.blackwellpublishing.com /book.asp?ref=0632052120 (583 words)

	Tropical Oils: What’s Healthy? What’s Not? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The African oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) or its American hybrid variety (Elaeis oleifra) is widely cultivated in tropical areas and produces a fleshy fruit from which two oils are extracted: (1) palm oil from the fruit and (2) palm kernel oil from the pit.
		Both contain a lot of saturated fat, but of the two, palm oil is the healthier, both because it has less saturated fat and because it has high antioxidant activity from a significant content of natural vitamin E (including both tocopherols and tocotrienols).
		Fractionated palm oil, as found in food products, has a higher concentration of saturated fat than regular palm oil and is used for the convenience of manufacturers who like its stability and melting characteristics.
	www.drweil.com /u/QA/QA118473 (364 words)

	Palm Carrier & Cooking Oil Refined 1 gallon: C (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Palm oil is a form of edible red vegetable oil obtained from the flesh of the fruit of the African oil palm tree.
		Palm oil economical for hand made soaps and is also used in the manufacture of commercial of soaps, detergents and other surfactants.
		Palm oil olein and stearin are popularly used worldwide in making margarine, shortenings and confectionery, and in frying snack foods.
	www.acompshop.com /661422.html (880 words)

	Why is oil palm replacing tropical rainforests
		Palm oil is derived from the plant’s fruit, which grow in clusters that may weigh 40-50 kilograms.
		Palm oil is used as one of the raw materials in a biodiesel production, a fuel that is derived from vegetable oils or animal fats.
		Mountainous terrain combined with inappropriate altitude and climate for oil palm means that only 10 percent at most can be considered adequate for cultivation and lends credibility to claims by environmental groups that the entire plan may be a cover for a massive logging scheme to harvest the area’s rich timber resources.
	news.mongabay.com /2006/0425-oil_palm.html (2992 words)

	Bursaphelenchus cocophilus pest information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Palms are important landscape plants in subtropical areas of the United States and the introduction of this nematode would cause great concern for the landscape and tourism industries.
		BIOLOGY AND LIFE CYCLE: Bursaphelenchus cocophi1us is associated with the palm weevil, Rhynchophorus pa1marum which transmits it to the coconut palm, Cocos nucifera and the African oil palm, E1aeis guineensis.
		Palms that are heavily infested with weevils should be cut, sectioned, and treated with an insecticide such as methomyl, trichlorfon, monocrotophos, carbofuran, cabaryl, or lindane.
	nematode.unl.edu /pest1.htm (2322 words)

	Nut-Producing Palms
		A few palms produce fruits that are used as vegetables, such as the hearts of palm.
		Palm oil, for commercial use, is mainly obtained from the nutlike fruits of the species Elaeis guineensis, the most important of all the oil palms including those of West Africa and South America.
		The "American Oil palm" (Elaeis oleifera formerly Cordozo oleifera) is now identified as allied to the African oil palm.
	www.innvista.com /health/foods/seeds/palmnuts.htm (1427 words)

	The History of Oil Palm Breeding in the United Fruit Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The early history of the oil palm in Central America is largely the history of the crop in the United Fruit Company.
		Since the seed producing palms were in a variety plot and cross-pollination is the norm in oil palm, the seed distributed was only partly of Deli dura origin.
		Oil palm seed was supplied to B.J. Birdsall, Director of the Tingo Maria Experiment Station in Peru in April, 1944.
	www.asd-cr.com /ASD-Pub/Bol11/B11c1Ing.htm (5006 words)

	C & L Aviaries Online - Polly's Palm Oil
		Palm oil is one of the riches natural plant sources of carotene.
		Palm Oil is the oil extracted grom the fleshy "fruit" of the West African Oil Palm (Elaeis guineensis).
		Palm oil has been used by Africans for thousands of years for cooking and as a folk remedy for ailments from headaches to cancer.
	www.claviaryonline.com /pollypalmoil.html (1762 words)

	Elaeis guineensis: The African Oil Palm! The Grand Statured Palm of Central Africa! The African Oil Palm is ...
		The African Oil Palm is www.thewisegardener and www.palmdoctor.com Palm-of-the-Month for January, 2002!
		Elaeis palms are a members of a small Genus of ONLY two species of palms.
		The African Oil Palm is native to numerous countries in tropical Africa, and has certainly become more widely distributed as a result of cultivation activities by humans.
	www.palmdoctor.com /Palm_0f_The_Month/Elaeis_guineensis.htm (396 words)

	Oil-rich fibrous residue from african oil palm as basal diet of pigs; effects of supplementation with methionine
		Colombia is the fourth producer of palm oil in the world and the first in South America, with an actual planted area of 106,000 hectares.
		The fatty acids in the oil are: myristic 1.6%, palmitic 45.3% stearic 5.1%, oleic 38.7% and linolenic acid 9.2%.
		Part of this variation it is believed stems from variation in the composition of the oil-rich residue, due perhaps to changes in the composition of the fruit being processed, or to management factors in the factory.
	www.cipav.org.co /lrrd/lrrd4/2/ocampo1.htm (1422 words)

	African Red Palm Oil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		African Grey Parrots, naturally feed extensively upon the fruits of the oil palm.
		African Greys appear to be able to cope with slightly higher levels of fats in their diet than most parrots and in fact, such levels appear to be beneficial.
		African Grey Parrots eat a variety of seeds, nuts, fruits, berries and vegetation in the wild.
	www.katsbirdtoys.com /african_red_palm_oil.htm (496 words)

	ELAEIS GUINEENSIS - OBÉ.
		Extracted from the seeds and palm oil; also from the flesh of the fruits.
		The palm oil is extracted from the mesocorp, while the kernel oil comes from the inside of the seeds.
		The oils are used for manufacturing of edible oil and margarine, while the fatty acid are used in the manufacturing of soap.
	www.tropilab.com /obe.html (257 words)

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