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Because it has a melting point where it’s solid at room temperature, and liquid when warmed to body temperature. That’s a very big deal.
why?
Basically, palmitic acid has the right length of carbon chain.
I mean why is it a big deal?
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Fried rice made with palm oil is fucking amazing.
Everyone should be avoiding palm oil. It’s in a lot of products but still not that hard to avoid as long as you check the ingredients.
As long as we’re depending on consumers to read an ingredients list and avoid, it’s going to be used at a destructive scale. It takes either innovation (finding a substitute that’s cheaper) or regulation (ban) to make the kind of change we need.
