How to Use palm oil in a Sentence

palm oil

noun
  • There could be corn syrup, there could be palm oil, there could be additives.
    — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 21 Apr. 2021
  • While better for you than some options, palm oil is still not good for your health.
    — Delaney Nothaft, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The company is one of the largest buyers of palm oil in the world.
    — Amanda Shendruk, Quartz, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Pakistan’s biggest food import is palm oil, which has jumped in price.
    — New York Times, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Ehara said prices of potatoes and palm oil had also stabilized.
    — Michelle Toh, CNN, 4 Aug. 2023
  • She’d been poisoned, presumably by the palm oil, which is toxic to dogs.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Based on the order, palm oil was used as the bulk of the fat content, while a bit of butter was added for taste.
    — Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The move is intended to help fill the shortage in global palm oil supplies.
    — Aurora Almendral, Quartz, 17 May 2022
  • The flavor depends on how long it’s been fermented and the presence of palm oil.
    — Chisom Peter Job, Bon Appétit, 20 Aug. 2021
  • The foaming agent in soaps, shampoos and detergents are often based on palm oil.
    — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Soybean oil, a substitute for palm oil, hit a record high on Friday.
    — Aurora Almendral, Quartz, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The colony is endowed with rubber and radium, copper and palm oil.
    — Big Think, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The fund is looking at other crops too, from cocoa to coconut, rice, palm oil and shea butter.
    — Aryn Baker/sahabevava, Time, 13 June 2018
  • The easy-to-digest formula is free from corn syrup, maltodextrin, palm oil and soy.
    — Stefani Sassos, Ms, Rdn, Cso, Cdn, Nasm-Cpt, Good Housekeeping, 24 May 2022
  • The man from the city provided goats, yam, fish, palm oil, orogbo, sugar and honey.
    — Literary Hub, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Overall, the price of carbon has to be high enough to address large scale soy, palm oil, cattle and timber.
    — Zoë Schlanger, Quartz, 4 Dec. 2019
  • News of the ban sent Malaysian crude palm oil futures prices — the global benchmark — soaring.
    — Anna Cooban, CNN, 19 May 2022
  • The price of palm oil, used in products from chocolate to toothpaste, is near a decade high and likely to climb further.
    — Lucy Craymer, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Forests are cleared to make way for palm oil, rubber, and cocoa plantations, as well as for small-scale slash-and-burn farms.
    — Tim McDonnell, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
  • Olivia is not the first Girl Scout to raise questions about the way palm oil makes its way into the cookies.
    — CBS News, 29 Dec. 2020
  • About half of all products on grocery shelves contain palm oil, and production has doubled in the past decade.
    — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2021
  • The Genting Group also owns palm oil plantations in Malaysia.
    — Jonathan Burgos, Forbes, 18 May 2022
  • China and India are among the world’s biggest importers of soy, pulp and paper, and palm oil.
    — National Geographic, 27 June 2018
  • Mondelez expects 80% of its palm oil to meet the new requirements by the first quarter next year.
    — Micah Maidenberg, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2020
  • If fish is the king, olive oil is the queen in the Mediterranean diet -- stay away from coconut and palm oil, experts say.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 5 May 2021
  • The company also said its palm oil use no longer contributes to the clearing of forests in the tropics.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 16 June 2021
  • Those products use compound coatings made with vegetable oils such as palm oil and shea oil instead of cocoa butter.
    — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Nanisca and her elite squad emerge from the cover of tall grass slick with palm oil, machetes and fingernails sharpened to killing points.
    — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Is awareness of deforestation and the role of palm oil in the orangutans' demise reaching the public more?
    — National Geographic, 21 Apr. 2016
  • These products use compound coatings made with vegetable oils such as palm oil and shea oil instead of cocoa butter.
    — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 1 Apr. 2026

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