Even though you know you shouldn’t eat it, you can’t help but buy it and eat black lace. Lace chips, which are made in healthy oil in America and others, are made in palm oil when they come to India. Palm oil, on the other hand, is not very good for health. When the protest was strong, PepsiCo India, the food product manufacturer, has now announced that it will make lace chips using a mixture of sunflower oil and palm oil instead of palm oil.
The company omits palm oil and changes the taste of lays; Instead, sunflower oil and palmoleen oil will be mixed and used. The new decision was taken into consideration of the health problems of palmoil, which was used because of the low cost. PepsiCo also stated that the trial to manufacture chips without palmoil has started since last year. Lay’s-India potato chips are very popular in the country. The crucial decision is that of PepsiCo, the company that distributes lays in the country.
Instead of palm oil, sunflower oil and palm oil will be mixed and used. Revanth Himatsingha, a social media influencer, informed about this. Revanth Himatsingka suggests that removing palm oil from lays could force other potato chip companies, including Bingo, to do the same.
Palm oil is a vegetable oil. It is made from the fruit of the oil palm. Many companies rely on palm oil for food production. Palm oil is also used in cosmetic products. Many companies rely heavily on palm oil because of its relatively low cost. But there are many concerns about palm oil due to its high fat content. Health experts point out that if palm oil is included in the diet, it will increase the bad cholesterol in the body. Both oils are extracted from the same plant. However, these are different. Palm oil is available in semi-solid form. Palmolein oil is a liquid form of palmoil.
PepsiCo, the largest US maker of beverages and snacks, does not use palm oil in the lace chips it sells. Instead, it uses only healthy oils such as sunflower and corn oil. Palm oil contains high levels of saturated fat, around 50%, which can raise LDL cholesterol levels and increase the risk of cardiovascular disease if consumed in excess. The polyunsaturated fatty acids in sunflower oil, especially linoleic acid, are essential fats that benefit heart health.
A spokesman for Pespico India said the trial of using a mixture of sunflower oil and palm oil instead of palm oil had started a year ago. In coming times, only chips cooked with sunflower oil and palm oil will be consumed in India. Pepsi has also announced that it will reduce the salt content of its snacks in India to less than 1.3 milligrams per calorie. While sunflower oil provides more nutritional benefits than palm oil due to its lower saturated fat content, its lower oxidative stability affects product shelf life and flavor. Foods made with palm oil can be kept intact and tasteless for longer due to heating at high temperatures. This is why most food manufacturers use palm oil.
Because palm oil is cheaper compared to sunflower or soybean oil, palm oil is common in dozens of packaged food brands in India, including salty snacks, biscuits, chocolate, noodles, bread and ice cream.
Nestlé India recently announced plans to introduce its baby food Cerelac sugar-free following controversy over the high sugar content of products sold in Asian and African countries. This comes after Swiss investigative organization Public Eye and the International Baby Food Action Network revealed that Cerilac in developing countries contains more sugar than Cerilac in developed countries.
