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Red palm oil

What it is

Unrefined palm fruit oil, carotenoids intact — the version that's been food in West Africa for five thousand years. The color is the receipt.

Why your biology objects

Saturated and stable, and it still carries the carotenoids and tocotrienols (vitamin E and A precursors) the refining process strips out of the white version. Fat that arrives with its fat-soluble vitamins is fat doing its ancestral job.

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