(MPOB Transfer of Technology)
Animal fats have been singled out as the cause of dietary diseases due to the saturated fatty acids and trans fatty acids content. However, animal fat is one of the major ingredients in processed meat formulations. In order to reduce the consumption of animal fats in daily intakes, fat substitution can be done. This is applied in … Read more
Commercial pastry shortenings are usually produced from hydrogenated fats. Partial hydrogenation produces trans fatty acid which may cause the LDL (bad cholesterol) to increase. In order to overcome this problem, palm-based pastry shortening formulations without hydrogenation have been developed. Objectives: Reformulate a commercial trans fatty acid containing pastry shortening with non-hydrogenated palm-based formulation Evaluate the … Read more
It is a well-known fact that palm oil being a semi-solid oil at ambient, can be fractioned to produce palm olein and palm stearin. Palm olein is used as cooking oil, while palm stearin finds uses in many edible applications which require a solid fat. Main Research: Dr Chong Chiew Let
The 5 million hectares of oil palm plantations in Malaysia, produces over 18 million tonnes of crude palm oil and 80 million tonnes of biomass a year. Biomass from the oil palm industry includes the trunks (OPT), fronds (OPF), shells, empty fruit bunches (EFB), mesocarp pressed fibre (MPF) and palm oil mill effleunt (POME). Anout … Read more
Rarid growth of palm oil production in Malaysia in the last few decades has given rise to major environmental issues, particularly the discharge of large quantities of treated waste effluent into the rivers as well as the emission of methane from palm oil mill digestion ponds to the atmosphere. The proposed technology offers a zero … Read more
Malaysia is the world’s second largest producer of palm oil. In 2012, Malaysia produced 18.79 million tonnes of crude palm oil from 96 million tonnes of fresh fruit bunches (FFB) processed and generated 13 million tonnes of palm-pressed mesocarp fibres. Several attempts have been made to recover the residual oil from the mesocarp fibre. The … Read more
The oil palm industry is very much dependent on manual labour to carry out the operations in estates. Mechanisation has been proven to be one of the strategic ways to improve productivity significantly and reduce workers requirement. It is well recognised that mechanisation of harvesting and the evacuation of fresh fruit bunches (FFB) are the … Read more
Endophytic microorganisms such as arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi (AMF) are among the many effective microorganisms (EM) present in the host of system of various plants; ofthen without ill effects on the plants (Holderness et al.,2000;Sieber,2002). A majority of land plants from symbiotic association with the fungi. Mycorrhizae play a key role for soil microorganisms in the soil-plant … Read more
Vascular wilt of oil palm is caused by a soil-borne fungus, Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. elaeidis (foe). This disease is seriously affecting the oil palm industry in Africa, where yield in some areas have drastically been reduced. Currently, F. oxysporum can be diagnosed up to the species level through a morphological and molecular technique namely, the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR). Detection … Read more
The Basal Stem Rot (BSR) disease caused by Ganoderma boninense has caused huge economic losses to oil palm plantations (Roslan and Idris, 2012). The disease can be diagnosed based on the presence of basidiomata of the pathogen on the stem base or frond bases or roots (Idris and Ariffin, 2004). Several technologies have been developed for the … Read more