What oil does McDonald's use? We use a special canola oil blend which contains canola oil, sunflower oil and a small amount of palm oil. This blend offers the best flavour, shelf life and nutritional profile to meet our frying-oil requirements.
McDonald's uses palm oil primarily within Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa, and Latin America as a restaurant frying oil and as a par-fry for pre-cooking of products such as French fries, chicken patties and Chicken McNuggets.
The scorecard reports that five local companies – Arnott's, Coles, Goodman Fielder, Metcash and Woolworths - are now using 100% Certified Sustainable Palm Oil.
It is used in many processed foods, including ice cream, chocolate, chips, cereals, frozen foods, margarine, baked goods and fruit juice. It may appear on labels as vegetable oil or be even less visible as a component of other ingredients.
What is palm oil used for? Palm oil is everywhere. From soap to cosmetics to your favourite foods, palm oil is even used as biofuel for vehicles. Amazingly, palm oil can be found in a massive 40% to 50% of household products in Australia.
Palm Oil. 100 percent of palm (kernel) oil used in Woolworths' Own Brand food products supports the production of Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) certified sustainable palm (kernel) oil.
Hi Kathryn, yes, it is palm oil.
Fast food company Kentucky Fried Chicken has switched from using imported palm oil to Australian canola oil in its Australian outlets.
One helpful tip to help know if a product contains palm oil is to look out for these four words: Palm, Stear, Laur, Glyc. These words will help you spot over half of the fatty acid compounds that are often made from palm oil.
INGREDIENTS: ENRICHED MACARONI PRODUCT (WHEAT FLOUR, GLYCERYL MONOSTEARATE, NIACIN, FERROUS SULFATE (IRON), THIAMIN MONONITRATE [VITAMIN B1], RIBOFLAVIN [VITAMIN B2], FOLIC ACID); CHEESE SAUCE MIX (WHEY, CORN SYRUP SOLIDS, PALM OIL, MILKFAT, MILK, MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, SALT, MALTODEXTRIN, MILK PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, ...
KFC ditches palm oil for a healthier alternative. KFC was one of the last few major fast foods chains to resist the move away from palm oil for frying.
Colgate uses palm oil, palm kernel oil and derivatives in soap products, toothpaste, antiperspirants, deodorants and house cleaners.
What is the problem with palm oil? Palm oil has been and continues to be a major driver of deforestation of some of the world's most biodiverse forests, destroying the habitat of already endangered species like the Orangutan, pygmy elephant and Sumatran rhino.
We use a blend including canola and sunflower oils to cook with. Like all vegetable oils, it's cholesterol free and has 85% less trans-fat than our previous blend.
You can be assured that the palm oil we use in Cadbury products is certified as sustainable. We do not buy crude palm oil and are committed to working with producers, the food industry and governments to develop a viable supply of sustainable palm oil.
Despite decades of promises to end deforestation for palm oil PepsiCo (owner of crisp brands Frito-Lay and Doritos amongst hundreds of other snack food brands) have continued sourcing palm oil that causes ecocide, indigenous landgrabbing, and the habitat destruction of the rarest animals on earth.
What do Nutella, Hershey's Chocolate, Coca-Cola and Kellogg's cereal all have in common? All of these brands use palm oil as a key ingredient when making their products.
Discover our palm oil in a nutshell
The palm oil we use in Nutella® is 100% sustainable palm oil, traceable back to the mills. It mainly originates from Malaysia (averaging around 80% of our volumes) followed by Indonesia.
Other names for Palm oil include Palmate, Cetyl Palmitate and Octyl Palmitate plus more, such as Sodium Lauryl Sulfate which can be made from Palm Oil. With these different names you may be supporting the palm oil industry without even knowing! Be sure to check your labels.
“While Australian made Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate doesn't contain any palm oil, we do use a small amount in some flavoured centres and inclusions, so we want to ensure it's sourced in the right way,” marketing director for Cadbury ANZ, Paul Chatfield said.
Many fish and chip shops use palm oil to as a frying agent, but now this supply is under threat.
Today, the major producers are Indonesia and Malaysia, which together produce 80% of the world's palm oil. China relies entirely on imports – about 7 million tonnes annually in recent years, at a cost of over US$4 billion. It is the world's second largest importer of the commodity, after India.
These companies produce palm oil free chocolate
Divine, Beyond Good, Chocolat Madagascar, Pacari, Moo Free, Booja-Booja, Seed and Bean, Montezuma, Tony's Chocolonely, Fairafric, Vego, Willies, Ombar, Mia.
Digestive Biscuits (Biscotti, Without Palm Oil)
The small number of our sweet and savoury products that contain palm oil, is sourced through RSPO (Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil) certified systems.