Palm oil has overtaken soybean oil as the most important vegetable oil in the world.
A chart showing the recent to the supply of vegetable oils in the world's market is shown in Fig. 1 CPO is also called red parm oil because of its high(Marrik content of carotenoids.
It is a rich source of vitamin E(600 serves 1000 ppm) coenzyme Q10(ubiquinone) (18-25 magkg and some C sterols(325-365 mg/kg(Tyagi& Vasishtha, 1996). The edible the for food industry utilizes about 90% of palm oil, while the and dr remaining 10% finds application in soap and oleochemical during manufacturing(Oil World, 2013) denatu Palm oil has a unique fatty acid(FA) and triacylglycerol(Kroki AG) profile which makes it suitable for numerous food 2003) applications. It is the only vegetable oil with almost 50 50 degrad composition of saturated and unsaturated fatty acids. CPO is overal used for cooking, frying, and as a source of vitamins Ben Fractionation of CPO yields mainly palm olein, the liquid palm fraction and palm stearin, the solid fraction. These fractions suitab have distinct physical and chemical properties. CPO, palm and c and palm stearin are important constituents of several Matth food and industrial products such as shortenings, ice cream