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How do you avoid palm oil?

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Jalima1108 Wed 14-Nov-18 16:52:34

Thank you, it's useful to have a list.

I scrutinise all the ingredients looking for gluten, so when I started looking for palm oil as well DH asked if I was going to 'gaze at that packet all day'.

BlueBelle Wed 14-Nov-18 16:49:48

Yes it’s only a brief one but a start I guess

PamelaJ1 Wed 14-Nov-18 16:48:38

Thanks for that Bluebelle. I’ve taken a screen shot, easier to see. I’ll pass it on. It’s not very comprehensive but every little helps.

BlueBelle Wed 14-Nov-18 16:29:53

I don’t know if this will help

Grammaretto Wed 14-Nov-18 16:15:02

We try to only buy from fair trade companies who have hopefully done the filtering for us.
You may pay a bit more but at least your conscience is clearer.
I prefer shopping in the small wholefoods shops anyway for old fashioned service. They will order things specially.

Lisagran Wed 14-Nov-18 16:05:44

www.worldwildlife.org/pages/which-everyday-products-contain-palm-oil

There’s some information here, but I agree it’s very difficult to be a responsible shopper

LyndaW Wed 14-Nov-18 15:51:49

Following on from the shocking Iceland ad and all the other news about it, I'm feeling like I should do more to stop buying things containing palm oil. Or at the very least buy things containing sustainable palm oil. But checking the labels the last few days, it's in so many of the things I buy. How do you manage to avoid it?