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I thought cholesterol came from animal fat. How can palm oil be as bad for us as I keep reading? Cholesterol as such is found only in animal products. But saturated fats, which (some feel) can produce high blood cholesterol levels in humans, can be found in many things, notably tropical oils such as palm and coconut.
Both are high in saturated fat and there's good reason to minimize your intake of saturated fats. Palm oil is taken from the fruit of the palm, however. Palm kernel oil is pressed from the seeds (kernels) of the fruit and is much higher in saturated fat - at about 80% vs. only 50% in palm oil.