Tropical Traditions Virgin Red Palm Oil Review and #Giveaway – Plus Recipe!
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Tropical Traditions Organic Red Virgin Palm Oil
I’m not sure if I just wasn’t paying attention to the “Red” part, or if I’m just not as smart as I think I am, but when the Tropical Traditions Virgin Red Palm Oil arrived at my house, I was shocked to see that it was bright orange.
You know, one of the great things about nature is that it is chock full of beautiful colors without the need for dyes and augmentation. However, in its natural state, palm oil is red (or orange through my eyes!) in color due to a high concentration of carotenes and tocols (basically Vitamin E).
So what do you use it for? Check this out:
Although scarcely used in the US, palm oil is the most heavily consumed dietary oil in the world after soybean oil. If one were to exclude the U.S. where most of the world’s soybean oil is consumed, palm oil would be the most popular dietary oil in the world.Palm oil traditionally has been used for baking, shortenings, margarines and deep fat frying, as it is shelf stable with a high melting point and does NOT require hydrogenation. Therefore, it contains no trans fatty acids.
You get that? No trans fatty acids! Rock on!
Not only is Virgin Red Palm Oil it just an awesome product all around and certified organic, it has a FANTASTIC history if you’d like to read about it.
See the Beautiful Color?!
What did WE use it for? Glad you asked! Popcorn, of course! The photo you see here is NOT popcorn from a microwave, or a cinema! It’s good, old fashioned, white organic popcorn kernels popped in Tropical Traditions Virgin Red Palm Oil. And you want to know what’s even better than the picture? It TASTES like it’s just out of the theaters! My kids AND my husband love popcorn this way!
It’s such a healthy, fun snack and treat, your kiddos will be asking for more!!
Healthy faux Theater Popcorn Recipe
5 Tbsp Tropical Traditions Virgin Red Palm Oil
1/2 cup popcorn kernels
1 large covered pot
Spices and herbs to taste
Heat oil in pot on medium high heat.
Pour in popcorn kernels.
Shake spices and herbs over kernels.
Cover.
Lets the heat build in the covered pot.
When you hear a kernel pop, start shaking the pot over the burner.
Shake until you hear very few kernels popping, and remove from heat.
Most of the remainder of the kernels will pop with the built up heat.
Wait a moment and open lid.
Add additional spices if desired.
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Disclaimer: Tropical Traditions provided me with a free sample of this product to review, and I was under no obligation to review it if I so chose. Nor was I under any obligation to write a positive review or sponsor a product giveaway in return for the free product.
I subscribe to the TT newsletter. And I really want to see how this works on popcorn you have me intrigued. We don’t own a microwave anymore and the one thing we miss is flavored popcorn, it is one thing I haven’t perfected yet.
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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.
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I learned that the palm fruit grows in dense bunches of more than a thousand individual fruits and been found ink a tomb dating to 3000 BC.
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Interesting study: Mention might also be made of two additional studies, by R. C. Cottrell (1991) and C. E. Elson (1992). These authors reviewed 139 and 180 scientific publications, respectively, and both concluded that palm oil was a nutritionally satisfactory component of the diet.
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…Virgin Palm oil “has 15 times more carotenoids than carrots and 300 times more than tomatoes.”
WOW! I want some of this stuff! It is SOOOO GOOD for you!
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Palm Oil: The Number 1 Dietary Oil for the Rest of the World
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I never knew that the individual fruits are about the size of a small plum
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Virgin Palm Oil is known for its excellent stability at high temperatures. I subscribe to Tropical Traditions and love their products. I have not tried the red palm oil, though.
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Red palm oil later became an important item in the provisioning trade supplying the caravans and ships of the Atlantic slave trade, and it still remains a popular foodstuff among people of African descent in the Bahia region of Brazil (Northrup 1978: 178—86; Hartley 1988: 1—3; R. Lago, personal communication, 1993).
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When you purchase Tropical Traditions Virgin Palm Oil, you are supporting small scale family producers in Africa, and NOT large corporate plantations in South East Asia
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I learned that it is also a traditional oil used in Africa for over 5000 years! Wow!
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I thought this fact in their history was fascinating “The palm fruit develops in dense bunches containing more than a thousand individual fruits similar in size to a small plum.
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The oil palm is native to West Africa. Thank you so much for the opportunity to win.
I learned palm oil was likely available in ancient Egypt in trade.
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The palm fruit develops in dense bunches weighing 10 kilograms (kg) or more and containing more than a thousand individual fruits similar in size to a small plum.
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“The British Industrial Revolution created a demand for palm oil for candle making and as a lubricant for machinery.”
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