Talk:Palm oil vs hydrogenated oils

preliminary

Compare:

• palm oil, vs
• hydrogenated... either:
  • soybean oil, or
  • canola oil, or
  • sunflower oil,
  • or any other oil that's "local" to North America

Factors to compare:

• Environmental impact
  • Land required per {tonne of oil produced per year}
    • How much land, but also what type of land (i.e. which ecological biome is it displacing)
• Nutrition
  • Partially hydrogenated produces transfats (which are considered unhealthy but aren't entirely unnatural, they do occur in dairy as well). What's the latest research? If saturated fats are proving to be not that bad, maybe same for transfats?
  • How about mixing fully-hydrogenated with non-hydrogenated oils?
• Shelf life
  • Compare for example:
    • Crisco from, was it 20 years ago? (made with partially hydrogenated soy/canola), vs
    • Crisco from more recent times (non-hydrogenated soy/canola plus a bit of palm/palmkernel oil)

Btw, I wasn't sure if I chose the right title of this page. Pedants would say "but there's also such a thing as hydrogenated palm oil". But if I make the title longer and more specific, it could get hard to remember. We don't need a separate page for "palm oil vs hydrogenated canola oil" and "palm oil vs hydrogenated soybean oil" etc.

Elie (talk) 12:48, 28 March 2025 (EDT)