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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.
African palm trees, from whose fruit palm oil is derived, need abundant heat and rainfall to flourish. This has caused palm oil companies to slash and burn huge swaths of rainforest to make way for palm oil plantations. Clearing land for these monocultures has also been found to create high carbon emissions.