GEOGRAPH 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Palm Oil, Cooking Oil, Unsaturated Fat
20 Feb 2017
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Indonesia"s rain forest and the palm nut oil industry. Indonesia is a large island arc (archipelago) which is the densest population of muslims of any other country in the world. Is a democratic country (too democratic according to some in the country) Relationships include human to human, human to plant, human to animal, human to earth materials, etc. Plantation: a single-crop agricultural system focused on high-value export production such as coffee, sugar cane, tobacco, cotton, etc. Palm nut oil plantations are the fastest growing plantations in the world. Palm oil is the cooking oil of the developing world: stays solid up to 85 degrees fahrenheit (no need to refrigerate, no care involved, dont have to do anything for it, the trees just produce. ~90% saturated fat/ ~10% unsaturated fat (not good for you) Used for cooking, butter substitution, extending other more flavorful oils. It is the cooking oil of the developing world; increasingly found in the.
