"Guatemala’s growing palm oil industry fuels Indigenous land fight". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
How is palm oil made?
Palm oil is traditionally, and still industrially, produced by milling the fruits of oil palm. Besides milling, palm oil is produced by cold-pressing the fruit of the oil palm since the 1990s. This type of artisanal palm oil is usually not further refined, so they keep the natural red color.
Does palm oil transform economic landscape?
"Palm oil transforms economic landscape". Business Times. Archived from the original on 12 November 2012. Retrieved 30 January 2013.
Where did palm oil come from?
Humans used oil palms as far back as 5,000 years. In the late 1800s, archaeologists discovered a substance that they concluded was originally palm oil in a tomb at Abydos dating back to 3,000 BCE. Palm oil from Elaeis guineensis has long been recognized in West and Central African countries, used widely as a cooking oil.