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From breakfast to a midnight snack, from starter to dessert, and from a Sunday brunch to festive delicacies, there are a host of opportunities for you to serve baked items right through the day and right through the year. Bakery products include breads, rolls, cakes, biscuits/cookies, pudding and various types of pastries. Some examples of … Read more

Basal Stem Rot (BSR) caused by Ganoderma boninense is the most serious disease of oil palm in Malaysia. Isolation of the pathogen from diseased tissues, espcecially from infected roots, is difficult due to heavy contamination by soil inhabiting bacteria and fungi. It is important, therefore, that a medium selective for this fungus be developed to facilitate various … Read more

Palm oil-based printing ink is a recent innovation of a collaborative research project between Coates Brothers (M) Sdn Bhd and the Palm Oil Research Institute of Malaysia (PORIM). Begun in the middle of 1990, the project has gone through the usual stages of laboratory formulation and testing, through pilot plant production to final testing of … Read more

Vision 2020 calls for more efforts towards an industrialised economy in Malaysia. One agreed strategy is to explore more down-stream possibilities for our many natural resources through research and development (R&D). Recent research at the Palm Oil Research Institute of Malaysia (PORIM) has indicated exciting possibilities for a new product from palm oil (PO). This … Read more

Oil palm plantations are highly dependent on manual labour. It has been estimated that, on the average, about 50 man-days are required per hectare. In recent years the agricultural sector of the industry has experienced labour shortage problems. As a result numerous operations including harvesting, and other agronomic activities in the plantations have been significantly affected, … Read more

It is currently possible to use vegetable oil fuel to run cars which have been filled with new or suitably modified diesel engines. In this connection, PORIM has experiment on a car fitted with Elsbett vegetable fuel engine and crude palm oil (CPO) has been used exclusively as vegetable oil fuel in the experiment. The … Read more

Cocoa butter substitutes (CBS) are fats which are designed to match the physical properties of cocoa butter and palm and palm kernel oils have long been the most important sources of oils for their manufacture. There are many different (CBS) fats suitable for a wide variety of confectionery applications, but they can be divided neatly … Read more

The choice of an oil or fat for a given application depends on its specific physico-chemical properties. The physico-chemical properties vary from one fat to another. Presently, with, the aid of modern techniques, it is possible to modify the physico-chemical properties of an oil or fat to suit a particular application. Amongst the modification processes … Read more

Palm oil contributes significantly in supplying the world’s requirement for oils and fats. Total production in 1990 was 10.55 million tonnes and this accounted for 13.2% of the world’s total oils and fats output of 79.7 million tonnes. Palm oil together with soyabean, rapeseed and sunflowerseed oils are often recognized as the big four in … Read more