It's found in instant noodles, packaged ice cream, chocolate, detergents, industrial pizza dough and margarine… basically just about every processed, packaged product that most of us use daily. Here's a brief list of the many brands and products that include palm oil as an ingredient: Bagel Bites.
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 common products contain palm oil? Apart from the majority of soaps, cleaners and shampoos on the market containing palm oil, many people are shocked to learn that Arnott's Tim Tams also contain palm oil. In fact, palm oil is so widely used in consumer products that it is increasingly difficult to avoid.
Oftentimes, “light yogurt” contains Vitamin A Palmitate. In addition, yogurt with add-ins — candy, cookies, sugary ingredients– all contain palm oil. Buy yogurts without mix-ins.
Colgate uses palm oil, palm kernel oil and palm oil derivatives in some of our soap products, toothpastes, antiperspirants, deodorants, and household cleaners.
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. Palm oil is the world's most demanded vegetable oil, making palm oil extraction an environmental crisis.
For this reason, palm oil produced for McDonald's5 must be certified by the RSPO, which sets out strict criteria to minimize negative impacts to the environment and to communities in palm oil producing regions.
Pringles do not contain palm oil.
Chips: Lay's Classic Salted Chips
All PepsiCo brands (We're looking at Kurkure Masala Munch and Uncle Chipps Spicy Treat) also contain palm oil.
Does Cadbury Chocolate Contain Oil? Cadbury's confectionery is made with palm oil, which is one of the least expensive and most versatile vegetable oils. Mondelez, one of the world's largest palm oil buyers, now owns the Cadbury chocolate brand after it was sold by the Cadbury family in the 1950s.
Chocolate does not usually contain palm oil. However, it is commonly filled with biscuit and other such fillings, and so palm oil is still used by companies in a lot of chocolate bars and boxes.
Another common oil used in peanut butters is palm oil, which contains saturated fat but not trans-fat. To put it into perspective, oils take up 1 to 2 percent of the peanut butter's overall weight.
Definitely not a breath freshener, this may be a good choice if you're missing the whimsy of rainbow-colored gum balls in your life! TL;DR Yes, 99% of gum has palm-oil in it and finding palm-oil free gum (made by a palm-oil free company) is a tough game. A glycerin-free gum, like Zellie's, is your best bet!
Most of them don't include “palm” in the name. Bars of soap will be less likely to contain palm oil than liquid soaps. Note: Natural soap can contain palm oil. Palm oil is considered to be “natural” and not artificial.
Since 2015, Lindt & Sprüngli has sourced 100% of our palm oil, palm kernel oil, and their fractions with RSPO certification and, for all our products produced in Europe, 100% under the “Segregated” traceability model.
Biscuits. The biscuits most likely to be palm oil free are those that are 'all butter' or the more expensive 'cookies'. Palm Oil Free Products All biscuits and oatcakes except Sweet FA biscuits, buy from Planet Organic* or Abel & Cole*. Oatcakes and Sweet FA range are vegan.
The palm oil in Nutella® is carefully treated during processing, making it perfectly safe to ingest. The palm oil we use in Nutella® is 100% RSPO certified sustainable palm oil and can be traced back to the mills, guaranteeing that it does not come from plantations subject to deforestation.
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.
Arnott's is one of only three companies in the world recognised for achieving the next step of using 100% segregated certified sustainable palm oil (which means that the CSPO is kept separate from uncertified palm oil all the way from the mill to the end user).
Palm oil is widely used in the production of cheese substitutes such as mozzarella, cream cheese and kashar cheese (sliceable semi-hard cheese).