(Reupload) Production of Red Oil (Palm Kernel Oil) in Nigeria
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- čas přidán 1. 06. 2023
- Palm Oil has been farmed for use as food here in Nigeria for hundreds of years - in this video we will look at the traditional method of processing (with some slight mechanisation) to extract the oil from the fruit.
Palm oil has, internationally, a very bad reputation, as it is being produced in some countries at the expense of serious deforestation and environmental damage. That does also happen in Nigeria, but today we are looking at traditional small-scale production by family farmers, from locally-grown crops.
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I loved the video the first time, so it was great to see it again.
Wow, really interesting! Great footage and info! This needs more views!
Wow, thank you for the interesting video 👍
very cool
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This is so interesting! The seed/fruit on the very inside seems almost like a macadamia nut or almond, maybe softer? Sounds delicious, especially after the hard work of cracking it open - and breaking a rock!!! WOW that is a hard shell. I can't imagine what it would feel like on your feet to process the fruit before the machine was available. It must have been very difficult! It reminds me of how grapes used to be squished with the feet to make wine. Palm Oil has started to be used in a lot of processed foods in the USA - I try to avoid them when the source of the palm oil is unknown. I just don't understand why deforestation would be necessary to make this beautiful oil when it is clearly more beneficial to make use of all of the parts in this traditional method.
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This was super interesting, thank you! 😃
Thanks 🙏
I’m super interested in this since I saw all those barrels in the marketplace. It looked like motor oil or red diesel to me and I was fascinated by the way it was stored and sold.
Now This is real palm red oil! And THAT was real palm oil soup! Great video Babatunde. Much love.
Bro this is so well explained. You've outdone yourself with this video 👍👍
Awsome video
Thank you, Babatunde.
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Thank you for sharing this information because this is so valuable to know. I love your channel, and hope you can partner with companies to inform us of any products that get your seal of approval as Made in Nigeria we may support, I live in the USA. Thank you for all your time, content, and consideration!
A couple of years ago, I bought a bottle of Nigerian red palm oil. It is *very* red, and I thought that it tastes a little like a really strong tasting olive oil. I think that there is a world of a difference between a traditionally grown and extracted red oil, and industrially grown and extracted palm oil that is used in western convenience foods. Apart from anything else, the constituents which impart the flavour and redness to the oil, are industrially seen as impurities which are bleached out and the extraction will be done using xylene on the whole ground seed. I think that the answer is to eat less convenience food, but I guess that might be a luxury some people don't have. I won't buy any more red oil for myself as every bottle I buy means that a bottle needs to be sourced from a region where it isn't native or traditional for use in convenience foods.
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An excellent video, it always asks me happy to see the more sustainable and traditional methods being supported!
Incredible to see this process up close - thank you so much for sharing it with us! I really want to see if I can find sustainably produced palm oil somewhere here in the US, I've been curious about it since being introduced to it through your videos.
I agree that not all palm oil is bad. No one likes to mention that good portions of Europe and North America had been deforested for sunflower oil, olive oil etc. but people need to eat. Palm oil is one of the most (if not the most) productive oil plants! I hope to get a palm oil plant but it is difficult to obtain.
What do you mean? I haven't shut up about all the destruction of ancient European forests and nature since I was old enough to learn and speak and be utterly crushed at the devestation and depressing concrete and asphalt everywhere. The forests and nature could've easily remained with sustainable forestry, and did not need to disappear for food. Certain parts, perhaps, but the vast majority of it was cut for its wood.
Case in point, Denmark. It used to be one big forest. Now it's flat and empty. A complete disgrace.
I first learned about the red oil from your videos! I have been avoiding EVERY product with ANYTHING to do with palm for many years now, because of the forest stripping and the loss of important orangutan habitat, etc., so I googled the red oil and saw it being produced on small family farms in Africa (no orangutans in Africa!), and I want to use it in cooking so badly now. I've been looking to find some I can afford to buy here in the San Francisco Bay Area, or online. I know it's going to be absolutely wonderful for cooking.
Just be careful to read the labels so you know the source
@@fieryvale Yes! Unfortunately, I do not think any of the many food products we have on the store shelves here where I live (in California) with "palm oil" or "palm kernel oil" listed as ingredients are talking about the red oil from Africa, and I still won't be buying those products. It's a bit surprising how many things list "palm oil" or "palm kernel oil" in the ingredients. None list the source though.
Whole Foods started carrying a Red Palm Oil that is sustainably sourced. Check their Whole 365 brand. i have a jar, but haven't gotten the courage to make anything with it yet!
awesome video! it's awesome to see traditional production processes in an age of industrial megafarming and such
Any artisanal product such as this is always good. Nutritious and flavourful.
As you mentioned the seed will go to a factory where is will be 'treated' the end product will have no flavor and will be nutrient void. This I would avoid.
Thank you for sharing this with us all. I really strive to find local resources and food- now I must learn who is making cooking oil in our area. That was very interesting.
Very interesting. I was surprised because I thought there would be some squeezing or pressing to get the oil out of the pulp of the fruit, like with olives. And I didn't realize that the pulp and the seed were made into different oils. I unfortunately have not had the opportunity to try Nigerian food but now I want to find out what flavor the oil adds.
Very interesting. I would like to try it.
Excellent video, great to see how it's made thank you for sharing ❤
What an interesting video! It's a very time-consuming process which apparently uses every bit of the palm seeds. I've read a bit about the environmental impact of palm oil, but this traditional method seems to be waste nothing and to cause no problems. I have never cooked with palm oil, but I have eaten some food cooked with it. Maybe I'll go to our local market Saturday; they sell prepared food from different countries, and I think one booth is run by Nigerians, so they will probably sell food cooked with palm oil. Just as a comparison, I usually buy the cheap local vegetable oil, usually canola oil or soybean oil . "Canola oil" is actually rapeseed oil, made from the rape plant, but, probably because of the more common meaning of "rape", it is usually sold in Canada as canola oil. I have no idea how either is produced; from my point of view it just comes in plastic bottles in the supermarket. I think canola oil is produced in large quantities in western Canada, but not in my region. Our climate probably isn't suitable.
Didn't know that rapeseed was canola oil. It's very prevalent in Europe too.
The problem is that they just started putting it in everything because it could be cheaply bought. Mass deforestation is a result of that. I've used palm oil without knowing it many times, and I've never even bought it. The demand is manufactured. There are plenty of better alternatives that don't require deforestation.
You use local palm oil, we should use local sources of oils and fats too.
I wish they would use glass bottles. Plastic is very bad, and it leaches particles into its contents.
Oh, that woman that does all the extraction, I mean... she's pretty hardcore.
There is nothing at oil wrong with Palm Oil. BUT some countires are producing massive quantities of palm oil by deforestation and replacing the lungs of the world with palm treess. this is so they can exploit their resources and exploit palm oil. Malaysia is a classic example. It's driven by the West and their desire for palm oil in all sorts of products from soaps to cosmetics to cooking oil. So nothing wrong with palm oil production, providing you're not salshing down forrests to do it