palm oil

“The fatty acid profile of palm oil is broader than any other vegetable oil, and it's unique because it's sort of half saturated and half unsaturated fats, and you just can't replicate that with any other fat and oil”

“It's really hard to confirm that the palm oil in your product has been grown sustainably. And it just comes down to these very complicated supply chains, where if you were buying, you know, a bag of potato chips, it's nearly impossible to trace that palm oil a…”

“They make 60% of the world's palm oil supply.”

“It was a sixty billion dollar industry, palm oil alone, in 2016 when we met.”

“Our neighbors in Indonesia and Malaysia, essentially they're burning forest, they're clearing tropical rainforest to convert that land into oil palm plantations to make this vegetable oil called palm oil.”

“Palm oil can absolutely be produced sustainably. Most of it is not. Less than 20% of it is, and it's really been capped at that amount, and it's really hard to have confidence if it has been produced sustainably.”

“It's efficient, it's productive, so we can make a lot of it, but the reason that it has grown so explosively and will continue to grow over the next 30 years really comes down to the performance of palm oil as compared to other vegetable oils.”

“It is in 50% of products on supermarket shelves, and like you said, every person touches it every day, including me, who tries not to, but it's ubiquitous, and it is in everything from soaps and shampoos To lipstick and laundry detergent, to most of the foods …”

“And then when we looked at the beauty and personal care industry, and also the home care industry, it's still massive. It's a massive opportunity. It's Five to seven billion dollars for palm oil alone today.”

“And I quickly learned the air quality index was over 400, and anything over a 150 is dangerous, and over 300 is toxic.”

“We don't use a ton of palm on our products, but when you have a food product that has two or three ingredients, you notice it. And so peanut butter, people associate palm oil with a lot of peanut butter brands because there's only a few ingredients. And in a l…”