To start a palm oil free products thread?

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Just this... After weeks and weeks of google searching, there doesn’t seem to be any website/forums which I can find which clearly names all the Products from the usual supermans which are palm oil free. My weekly shop is taking forever because I’m having to read the labels of everything.

There is a slimming world site which lists all of the products and their syns from each shop, something like that would be amazing.

Usual supermarkets** ha

I am heading to Iceland for my cheap top up shops as they have now removed palm oil from their in house products.
I also will google things and read the ingredients list.
Ben and Jerry's have no palm oil, lindt chocolate is also palm oil free and to carry on the chocolate theme, so are bounty bars
Cadburys have also recently brought out a palm oil free chocolate called 'Dark Milk', which also has a higher coco content than their normal chocolate. And it is very very tasty.
I do find googling clues me in most of the time though.
I can also identify palm oil in products from other countries, as an exanple, in Polish it is Palma Tova.

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I'm glad this thread has popped up as I was wondering exactly the same thing as I wandering round the supermarket earlier today trying to find some nice palm oil free chocolates for Xmas. Following with interest...

It’s hard to find, I think it takes a lot of shopping around & internet shopping.

Apparently Toblerones have no palm oil.

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Aldi have a peanut butter with no palm oil, just peanuts, as do Meridian.
Gu have an excellent Nutella alternative, and Waitrose have a dark chocolate spread.

Marks and Spencer's All Butter biscuits.

Warburton's Danish Loaf (the only one palm oil free!)

Sainsbury's Teacakes, but it is their premium range ones, I can't remember the exact name.

Be careful with Lindt. Lindt chocolate is palm oil free, but I think the Lindor truffles do contain it.

Hotel chocolat use suppliers who use responsibly sourced palm oil in their ingredients but their normal chocolate has none. Charbonelle Et Walker have no palm oil (special Christmas chocolates)

There's an App you can get for your phone which you can put brand names into and it'll tell you whether something has palm oil in or not.

Palm oil is not the problem, it's unsustainably sourced palm oil only.

By far the biggest cause of rainforest clearance though is growing animal feed, to cater for meat demand. Giving up meat, and dairy, or at least reducing it, hasfar greater environmental benefit.

It's great that their is more environmental awareness now, but palm oil is only one part of the bigger picture.

BarbarianMum

No way that’s ace, I’ve just dowloaded!

agree with sustainable palm oil is not the problem. Palm oil is one of the most efficient plants in the world

Despite using the least amount of land, oil palm provides the highest yield of oil. The bountiful fruit that grows on the oil palm tree produces 11 times more oil than soybean plants, ten times more than sunflower and seven times more than canola, per hectare per year. In other words, it takes more than ten times more land to produce the same amount of soybean oil as palm oil.

Please think carefully before switching to other forms of oil - it is arguably much worse for the environment if you switch to soybean or sunflower as compared to sustainable palm oil

What is the app called please?

It's a difficult one but the soybean lobby in the US would have you think that all palm oil is killing orangutans

Crema di nocciola by Papa Dei Boschi. That tastes so unbelievably good. Nutella is plain disgusting compared to this heavenly stuff.

lindt chocolate is also palm oil free

Nope! My Lindor advent calendar lists ‘palm kernel’ as an ingredient unfortunately.

There is a big question mark over whether sustainable palm oil plantations are any better than uncertified ones.Certainly orangutan decrease is identical.
I avoid all palm oil because I cannot trust the label sustainable.
Apparently some companies like Nestlé are just putting 'vegetable oil' on some of their labels

Iceland point out that there is no 'sustainable' palm oil.

The Independent reported that both Malaysia and Indonesia have put pressure on the British government over the 'Rang-tan' campaign

The RSPO have been proven so corrupt, that palm oil and palm kernal oil have been traded with RSPO certificates for years.

www.ran.org/the-understory/why_rspo_sustainable_palm_oil_is_not_responsible/

Palm oil requires forest to be cut down for the plantations to be planted and the trees have a lifespan of about 20 to 25 years.

Which means more rainforest has to be cut down to make way for more palm oil trees.

www.rainforest-rescue.org/topics/palm-oil/questions-and-answers

The only real answer would be to reduce our use of palm oil and reject any foods or other products simply labelled as "vegetable oil".

Well said hibbledibble

We have been trying to reduce and be more mindful of our palm oil use for a couple of years, however the Iceland ad has brought the issue into much more robust debate and I found this to be interesting reading.

thegreenvegans.com/why-palm-oil-is-bad-but-boycotting-it-even-worse/?fbclid=IwAR3kkZkOeQ2NoDipqIscgy2PScOlnGsdNrcACL0jnD-bG5ASXUgXOgtjoso

I think the answer really lies in buying more wholefoods and cutting back on or eliminating meat.

Choco Leibniz biscuits (and the much cheaper copy from Lidl which seem identical) are palm oil free.