1. Shortening: usually contains hydrogenated vegetable oil. Hydrogenated vegetable oil is trans fat, which is extremely harmful to the body. Shortening has processing properties such as plasticity and emulsification. It is generally not suitable for direct consumption, but is used for processing. Pastries, bread or fried foods,

2. Palm oil: Traditionally, palm oil only refers to the crude oil and refined oil squeezed from palm pulp, excluding palm kernel oil. It has been used as a natural food for more than 5,000 years. It is used as cooking oil, crisp fat and margarine. Shortening is harmful to the body and contains trans fatty acids. It is not recommended for everyone to choose. Palm oil is better and is purely natural. You can choose this to make delicious food.

Shortening refers to refined animal and vegetable oils, hydrogenated oils or mixtures of the above oils, solid oils obtained by rapid cooling and kneading, or solid or fluid oils obtained without rapid cooling or kneading. product.

Palm oil is squeezed from the palm fruits of oil palm trees.

Extended information:

Shortening is derived from the English word "shorten", which means that using this kind of fat to process biscuits and other products can make the products very crispy. Therefore, the fat with this property is called "shortening". It refers to refined animal and vegetable oils, hydrogenated oils or mixtures of the above oils, solid oils formed by rapid cooling and kneading, or solid or fluid oil products without rapid cooling or kneading. Shortening has processing properties such as plasticity and emulsification. It is generally not suitable for direct consumption. Instead, it is used to process pastries, bread or fried foods, so it must have good processing properties.

Palm oil is a tropical woody vegetable oil. It is currently the vegetable oil with the largest production, consumption and international trade volume in the world. Together with soybean oil and rapeseed oil, it is known as "the world's three largest vegetable oils". ”, with a history of over five thousand years of consumption.

Reference materials: Shortening-Baidu Encyclopedia? Palm oil-Baidu Encyclopedia