Refined Palm Oil

[sidech]

Red Palm Oil is unrefined, as opposed to the stuff you bought, which is refined.

Here's what I found :

Unrefined palm olein (which is bright red in color) is a major source of carotenoids which inhibit some types of cancer. The unrefined oil is also a major source of beta-carotene, which is a precursor to Vitamin A.

Red palm oil is known to be healthier than refined (discolored) palm oil. This is a result of several mitigating substances found in the red palm oil. These compounds are:

•betacarotenes (present in higher amounts than in regular palm oil),
•co-enzyme Q10 (ubiquinone),
•squalene,
•vitamin A
•vitamin E.
Refining these oils makes them unhealthy for us;

Palm oil products are made using milling and refining processes: first using fractionation, with crystallization and separation processes to obtain solid (stearin), and liquid (olein) fractions. By melting and degumming, impurities can be removed and then the oil filtered and bleached. Next, physical refining removes smells and coloration, to produce refined bleached deodorized palm oil, or RBDPO, and free sheer fatty acids, used as an important raw material in the manufacture of soaps, washing powder and other hygiene and personal care products. RBDPO is the basic oil product which can be sold on the world’s commodity markets, although many companies fractionate it out further into palm olein, for cooking oil, or other products.

http://optimumnutrition.wordpress.com/2 ... tpalm-oil/

[sidech]

And this, on Wikipedia :

Red Palm Oil :Red palm oil gets its name from its characteristic dark red color, which comes from carotenes such as alpha-carotene, beta-carotene and lycopene—the same nutrients that give tomatoes, carrots and other fruits and vegetables their rich colors.

Red palm oil contains at least 10 other carotenes, along with tocopherols and tocotrienols (members of the vitamin E family), CoQ10, phytosterols, and glycolipids.[17] In a 2007 animal study, South African scientists found consumption of red palm oil significantly decreased p38-MAPK phosphorylation in rat hearts subjected to a high-cholesterol diet.[18]

Since the mid-1990s, red palm oil has been cold-pressed and bottled for use as cooking oil, and blended into mayonnaise and salad oil.[19] Red palm oil antioxidants like tocotrienols and carotenes are also fortified into foods for specific health use and anti-aging cosmetics.[20][21][22]

In a 2004 joint-study between Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research and Malaysian Palm Oil Board, the scientists found cookies, being higher in fat content than bread, are a better vehicle for red palm oil phytonutrients.[23]

In a 2009 study, scientists in Spain tested the acrolein emission rates from the deep frying of potatoes in red palm, olive and polyunsaturated oils. They found higher acrolein emission rates from the polyunsaturated oils. The scientists characterized red palm oil as "mono-unsaturated".[24] It gives an attractive colour to french fries.[25]



Refined Palm oil :

Refined, bleached, deodorized palm oilPalm oil products are made using milling and refining processes: first using fractionation, with crystallization and separation processes to obtain solid (stearin), and liquid (olein) fractions. Then melting and degumming removes impurities. Then the oil is filtered and bleached. Next, physical refining removes smells and coloration, to produce refined bleached deodorized palm oil, or RBDPO, and free sheer fatty acids, which are used as an important raw material in the manufacture of soaps, washing powder and other hygiene and personal care products. RBDPO is the basic oil product sold on the world's commodity markets, although many companies fractionate it further into palm olein, for cooking oil or other products.[26]

Splitting of oils and fats by hydrolysis, or under basic conditions saponification, yields fatty acids, with glycerin (glycerol) as a byproduct. The split-off fatty acids are a mixture ranging from C4 to C18, depending on the type of oil/fat.[27][28]

[idlepirate]

Thank you sidech thats excellent info you just posted.
I guess I bought the wrong one then? well I guess it was only 2£ so might just chuck it.
I suppose its also not necessary for a parrot unless they have a feather problem. might look into ordering some redpalm oil suppliment for birds in the near future.
Thanks so much for that info again and looking it up for me, I haven't got a clue about palm oil and just hear it mentioned that its good for birds but i dont want to feed him the wrong thing or something that wouldn't affect him at all:) ill chuck what i have in the bin then.

[liz]

I am still confused about red palm oil. Rambo's vet told me to give it to him.

I can't find it. If by some chance I do find it, how do I give it to him and in what quantity?

[Erithacus]

We use refined palm oil for frying. But I will not give it to my parrots. I doubt refined palm oil is good for our parrots. I feed my Grey with red palm oil. Currently I am using this, the best available from my country.

http://caycefoods.com/nutrolein.html

[liz]

I see palm oil listed but not red palm oil.
Where are you?

[sidech]

This is the stuff that's given by most people I know for birds :

http://www.avitec.com/product-p/agl.htm

For my Ekkie, I give about 1/4 teaspoon per day. You need to keep it in the fridge, so it will harden. Then you just scrape off the amount you need and put it on your parrot food. He will just eat it like that or you can microwave it for 1 second and it will melt and mix in the parrot's food.

Really easy, nothing to it.