Gone are the days when we were practically afraid to talk about the nutritional properties of palm oil. The fear then was not so much our reservation about its nutritional attributes but rather the lack of published references available in the world biomedical databases. This was significantly corrected by PORIM’s concerted efforts in propadating well-defined research themes to evaluate and understand the undeerlying mechanisms that dictate the nutritional effects of palm oil and its fraction. To date, PORIM has commisioned a total of 97 such nutritional trials worldwide and many of the completed studies have now been published in reputed journals and indexed in the best biomedical databases making access to these important scientific findings available to anyone interested.

Main Researcher: Kalyana Sundram