It is the only vegetable oil with almost 50 50 composition of saturated and unsaturated fatty acids.
CPO is used for cooking, frying, and as a source of vitamins Fractionation of CPO yields mainly palm olein, the liquid fraction and palm stearin, the solid fraction.
These fractions have distinct physical and chemical properties.
CPO, palm Olein and palm stearin are important constituents of several food and industrial products such as shortenings, ice cream