[Lil'freeper]

A Nutrition Ping List For Those Interested in the Research of Dr. Weston A. Price

Interesting. I just bought a jar of (red) palm oil - very rich in tocotrienols. Haven't quite decided how I'm going to use it just yet. It will take some experimentation, I think. Traditional North African recipes have it in soups and sauces.

[editor-surveyor]

Weston Price is the real inventor of the Atkins diet; he is a true genius!

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

Red Palm Oil http://www.congocookbook.com/c0226.html

The fruit of the African oil palm (Elaesis guineensis), which grows throughout tropical Africa, is used in many African dishes. Palm nuts, the fruit of the African oil palm, are not much bigger than grapes and grow in large bunches. They are orange-red in color, and their pulp and oil give a distinctive color and taste to many African soups and stews. Palm oil is to tropical African cooking what olive oil is to Mediterranean cooking and butter is to northern European cooking.

Vitamin E - The Tocotrienols: Super Anti-oxidants http://www.tropicaltraditions.com/red_palm_oil.htm

Vitamin E is one of the most important phytonutrients in edible oils. It consists of eight naturally occurring isomers, a family of four tocopherols (alpha, beta, gamma and delta) and four tocotrienols (alpha, beta, gamma and delta) homologues. While most Vitamin E supplements on the market today are composed of the more common tocopherols, tocotrienols are believed to be a much more potent antioxidant than tocopherols. Tocotrienols are naturally present in most plants, however they are found most abundantly in palm oil extracted from palm fruits. Other sources are rice, wheat germ, oat and barley. It has been shown by published research that alpha-tocotrienol is 40-60 times more potent than alpha-tocopherol in the prevention of lipid peroxidation. Since tocotrienols are a form of Vitamin E found less abundantly in nature than tocopherols, the research on this super anti-oxidant is still recent and ongoing. It is predicted that tocotrienols will become recognized as the new super anti-oxidant in the very near future.

[Colorado Buckeye]

Thanks for the ping, interesting thread. Over the last few months, I've discovered the wonders of coconut oil, but I don't know much about palm oil. How do those tocotrienols hold up under heat?

[Coleus]

can you ping me to nutrition articles.