Palm oil

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Vegetable oil from oil palm fruit; vegan but ties to deforestation and orangutan habitat loss.

Look for RSPO-certified or palm-oil-free products.

Also known as

Common aliases you may spot on a label. Add these to your ingredient blocklist.

Elaeis guineensisSodium palmate

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