Palm oil is pronounced zōng lǘ yóu with the vowels z, l, and y, the rhymes ōng, lǘ, and óu, and the tones of the first, second, and second sounds.

Palm oil is the world's second largest cooking oil after soybean oil, and the cheapest cooking oil on the international market. But it is rarely used for cooking in daily life. This is mainly because palm oil contains a large amount of saturated fatty acids, namely palmitic acid and stearic acid, with a total **** of up to 50% or more.

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While palm oil is not used as an everyday cooking oil, many foods may contain this oil. Examples include fried foods, instant noodles, chips, crackers, snacks, hydrogenated oils, blended oils, and more. The reason why palm oil is used as an important oil for these foods is partly because hydrogenated vegetable oils are more harmful and not recognized by customers. In order to increase sales, many producers will use palm oil.

Palm oil is bought and sold on a very large scale, but is pretty much controlled by several multinational conglomerates in Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia. Because Indonesia accounts for 85 percent of global palm oil production, foreign investors from Singapore and Malaysia control more than two-thirds of Indonesia's palm oil plantations.

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