Palm oil is a butter substitute. Every baked product at the grocery store that used to be made with butter is now made with palm oil, because it is cheaper. Palm oil is made up of long highly-saturated fatty acids that cause it to be solid at room temperature, giving it physical properties very similar to butter, making it suitable as a substitute. However saturated fatty acids are bad for your health. Butter is also saturated fat and is also somewhat bad, but palm oil is much worse because the varieties of fatty acids it contains are much different from animal fat fatty acids and the human body metabolizes them differently, so they have a much higher impact. Similar physical properties but worse health properties!
It is nearly impossible to find frozen baked goods that are still made with butter. This pie claims to be made with healthy ingredients, and specifically touts its butter content, but it conveniently omits mentioning palm oil entirely. Since palm oil appears first on the ingredients list before butter, that means there is more of it. Possibly almost the entire “butter-like” fraction of the pie consists of palm oil.
This pie alone contains 400% daily value saturated fat, which is terrible for long-term health. I love apple pies and I was planning to eat this pie as my sole food over the course of 2 days for my One-Meal-A-Day (OMAD), but I’m not willing to risk eating palm oil. Thanks for nothing for getting my hopes up, pie box!
- traditional wholesome German ingredients like palm oil
- palm oil - just the way grandma used to make at home
- contains memories of butter
I’m sure someone below will mention how palm oil is also bad for the environment and bad for the farmers and bad for the economy. I will only be answering questions about the film Rampart.
Butter
I feel like grazing enough cows to produce enough butter to fully replace palm oil would take magnitudes more land area
Coconut oil
Better, but still about 30% of the productivity per hectare of palm oil, so you’d still be deforesting 3x the land.
Guess we’d better drive several species to extinction, then.
It’s not identical areas, champ.
Just saw your edit. Ah, now we’re going the different lands route. Ima just refer you to my other comment here about colonialism.
https://sh.itjust.works/comment/26153394
The alternative is basically to quit wasting so much food and eat fresher, but that’s the part you never hear from the folks telling you to avoid palm oil. Switching to other oils just makes the problem worse.