Elaeis than oils made from canola, corn, linseed, soybeans, safflower, and sunflowers, it can withstand extreme deep-frying heat and resists oxidation. It contains no trans fat, and its use in food has increased as food-labelling laws have changed to specify trans fat content. Oil from "Elaeis guineensis" is also used as biofuel. Human use of oil palms may date back to about 5,000 years in coastal west Africa. Palm oil was also discovered in the late 19th century by archaeologists in a tomb at Abydos dating back to 3000 BCE. It is thought that Arab traders brought the oil palm to
Mission Foods Mission Foods Mission Foods, a subsidiary of Gruma Corporation, is an American manufacturer of tortillas and tortilla-related products based in Irving, Texas. Mission Foods was founded as a subsidiary of Grupo Maseca (now Gruma) in California in 1977 as a brand name to sell the company's tortillas in the American marketplace. A tortilla manufacturing plant was opened in Dallas in 1982. It is now one of the world's largest producers of flatbread, tortilla and corn flour products with factories in North and Central America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Mission Foods launched the Mission brand in Australia in 2009 with a