Publications

Publications

Fact Sheets Malaysian Palm Oil

  Palm oil is one of the 10 major vegetable oils traded in the global oils & fats market. It has been consumed as food from as long as 5,000 years ago and today is found in one of every ten food products sold on the shelves worldwide. Its sibling oil, palm kernel oil, which […]

Tree of Life

Palm oil is the world’s newest commodity but is already the target of scare-mongering that mixes bad science with poor knowledge. Those who would deny Malaysian palm oil its place are putting out one-sided stories that appeal to romanticism and nostalgia.

Palm Oil’s Role in A Balanced Diet – Dr Jean Michel Lecerf

  The Pasteur Institute in Lille, France, is one of the most respected institutes in the French-speaking world. Dr Jean-Michel Lecerf, Head of its Nutrition Department, has worked on issues involving palm oil, among other oils and fats. Understanding the science behind health and nutrition including...

The Quintessential Palm Oil: For People, Planet And Profit

Malaysian Palm Oil Council has produced a new publication entitled The Quintessential Palm Oil: For People, Planet and Profit. This is the second book in the World Palm Portraits series, in which entries especially winning photographs from the photography competition are featured. The 60-page book c...

Q & A Series On Palm Oil – Facts on Malaysian Palm Oil

  The popularity of palm oil as a raw material for both food and non-food products has been increasing. Today, many food products on the supermarket shelves around the world contain palm oil. These include margarine, chocolates, chips, spreads, ice cream, cakes and cookies. Palm-based oleochemicals,...

Challenging Past Confident Future

Challenging Past Confident Future is the third book in the series of World Palm Portraits book. The concept of this series is to incorporate beautiful images from the World Palm Portraits Photography Competition with facts and figures on the palm oil industry. The 40-page book has 4 chapters on the ...

Palm To Plate

A new publication by Malaysian Palm Oil Council entitled Palm to Plate was launched during POC 2017 by YB Datuk Seri Mah Siew Keong as part of the 100 Years of Malaysian Palm Oil Industry celebration. Palm to Plate features delightful local and international cuisine by 6 foreign and 3 Malaysian chef...

The Impossible Task The Incredible Journey

The Impossible Task. The Incredible Journey” pays homage to the centennial presence of the Malaysian palm oil industry. Encapsulating its trials and tribulations in the coffee table book, it details the birth of palm oil in Malaya to its luxuriant growth in the present day, and the opportuniti...

Malaysian Palm Oil in Professional Kitchen

  Palm oil, is the most widely produced and consumed vegetable oil. It is derived from the African palm tree belonging to the Palmaceae family. It is a vital and most versatile vegetable oil, and is widely used as a raw material from both food and non-food industries.  Being a vegetable oil, palm oi...

‘The Malayan Elephant’ book by Mohd Momin Khan

  The ‘Malayan book describes the history, trials and tribulations of the Malayan elephant’s conservation; from its infancy in the early 1900s to the current efforts undertaken by the Department of Wildlife and National Parks of Peninsular Malaysia (DWNP). The physiology and anatomy of t...