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Help! Palm Oil!
Gah! I went looking for a healthy alternative to shortening for my cookies, and picked up Spectrum brand Organic All Vegetable Shortening...and I just realized (after using some) that its made of 100% mechanically pressed organic palm oil.
Its this supposed to be just as bad as trans fats? I noticed its high in saturated fats....which I know is not good. Any alternatives?
I can't use coconut oil, as DH is allergic to coconuts...I'm stuck I think.
Ideas? TIA!
Re: Help! Palm Oil!
Thanks. I too am skeeved, so I use butter when I can...but this *seemed* like a great find. Now, I'm not so sure. But it being organic...I would think the only problem would be the saturated fat.
Its a mystery, I'm afraid. Off to make them with it anyway. I would feel pretty stupid throwing the whole thing out at this point.
Palm oil plantations destroy the rain forests that Orangutans use as their homes. I would look up on Spectrum's website to see if they are sustainably harvesting their palm oil. A LOT of palm oil comes from Indonesia..which is the only place orangs are found now a days. This is a major contributor to why they are critically endangered.
Here is an article from the World Wildlife Fund about it.
http://www.panda.org/about_our_earth/about_forests/deforestation/forest_conversion_agriculture/orang_utans_palm_oil/
Count me in on being skeeved out by shortening! Down with shortening, long live butter!
Me too! I use Organic Valley butter for everything, including baking. It tastes soo good.
ditto! just bought some yesterday and used it to make some eggs florentine mmmm so so goooood
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Thank you for checking this out, and sorry to leave the post hanging today. I'm going to use what I've got. No sense in throwing it out, but I'll continue to just use butter. I too Luurve the butter, but I am a baking chemist...and I'm afraid to mess up my favorite recipe!
But really...how could butter ruin cookies. Thanks, everyone!