Palm oil has a balanced composition of both saturated and unsaturated fatty acids. Coupled with nature's gift of high vitamin E content, the oil is naturally very stable.
Palm oil contains an equal proportion of saturated and unsaturated fatty acids. It's particularly rich in the saturated palmitic acid (44 per cent), with substantial amounts of the monounsaturated oleic acid (40 per cent), and smaller amounts of polyunsaturated fatty acids (10 per cent).
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