Seeing red
| cg.howPublished | Formally Published | en |
| cg.identifier.url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/99604 | en |
| cg.issn | 1011-0054 | en |
| cg.journal | Spore | en |
| cg.number | 74 | en |
| cg.place | Wageningen, The Netherlands | en |
| cg.subject.cta | CROPS | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Lufuku, Joseph Mawa | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-10-16T09:16:03Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2014-10-16T09:16:03Z | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/49052 | |
| dc.title | Seeing red | en |
| dcterms.abstract | Joseph Mawa Lufuku, of the Centre de promotion sociale et agro-alimentaire (CEPROSA) in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, writes about the article in the French edition of Spore 65: 'The recommendation 'Don't whiten palm oil' is sound advice... | en |
| dcterms.accessRights | Open Access | |
| dcterms.bibliographicCitation | Lufuku, Joseph Mawa. 1998. Seeing red. Spore 74. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands. | en |
| dcterms.description | Joseph Mawa Lufuku, of the Centre de promotion sociale et agro-alimentaire (CEPROSA) in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, writes about the article in the French edition of Spore 65: 'The recommendation 'Don't whiten palm oil' is sound advice indeed, but not for the reasons given in the article. The increase in cholesterol is due, in actual fact, to another factor than the process of overheating the oil in order to whiten it. [...] Palm oil cannot be classified as a food with lipids rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids. It comprises saturated fatty acids above all, which means that, whether raw or whitened, it always increases the rate of cholesterol in the blood. [...] The effects of whitening palm oil has more to do with the destruction of carotene (which colours the oil red); this is a provitamin A which allows the body to elaborate its vitamin A. Whitening palm oil also produces a very poisonous and suffocating substance, acrolein, which is carried in smoke. It is the housewives who suffer from this.' | en |
| dcterms.isPartOf | Spore | en |
| dcterms.issued | 1998 | |
| dcterms.language | en | |
| dcterms.publisher | Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation | en |
| dcterms.type | News Item |