Natural Palm Oil is a Traditional Food: For many years most of
the food eaten by the human race, whether raw or cooked, came
from natural, unprocessed foods. Sometimes they were fermented,
such as with wine, yogurt and vinegar or breads that use
leavening to rise. Nuts and seeds were often times pressed for
oils and the oil was used in its "freshly pressed" state. In
Mediterranean countries, the pulp of the olive was used to make
precious oil long before the time of Christ. And just like the
olive, for centuries palm trees supplied many basic foods in
warmer areas. These foods ranged from the dates of the date palm
(in dry, North Africa, the Mediterranean, etc.), to oils from
the oil palm (in tropical, rainy Africa and Asia). For millennia
these oil palms have supplied precious, deeply orange oil from
the pulp of their fruit. Where does Natural Palm Oil come from?
Natural Red Palm Oil, sold by Wilderness Family Naturals, is
produced from the fruit of the oil palm, Elaeis guineensis. This
palm tree can be foun