Palm Kernels—Rival of the Coconut

Coconut

A SURVEY of the palm-oil ar kernel industry, recently mai in a bulletin published by tl United States Information Servr of Sydney is of interest to cop; producers in so far as anything th coconut oil can do, palm oil can < almost as well, if not better.

Palm oil and kernels are prcduci mainly in Nigeria, Belgian Cong French West Africa and Indones: and at present Western Europe pr vides the biggest market —the Unit Kingdom alone taking 186,000 tons oil and 339,000 tons of kernels 1954. United States also buys pal oil and kernels—but only about on fifth as much as before the wj Western Germany and the Nethe lands are also large consumers both the oil and the kernels.

Palm oil—the solid yellow reddish fat obtained from the fie of the palm fruit —has may us depending on its grade. It can be food, an ingredient for soap a candles, a coating for iron plates be tinned or a lubricating grease Palm kernels are the seed of 1 same fruit; when crushed they yii about 45 per cent, of palm ker oil —white edible fat of diffen composition from palm oil. It similar to coconut oil, and is u. in the same ways: for soap, mi garine, etc.

Unilever, through its Uni Africa Company, is interested palm oil. The UAC is described John Gunther’s Inside Aft (which should be on the bookshe. of every Island resident who 1: to keep up with native trends), the “largest trading company the world.”