Olive oil is the 4th most consumed oil, after that with palm, rapeseed and sunflower. She appreciated for its rich taste and its nutritional qualities. Its production in France represents only 1% of the world market. However, she is considered a premium product. So how to choose among the olive oils currently on sale? Should … Read more
At a time when all the debates around climate change are coming together, a controversy is shaking the public arena over the use of palm oil in French households. Some scientific studies validate the idea that palm oil is the alternative to fats resulting from partial hydrogenation. When on the other side, IPCC (UN Intergovernmental … Read more
Through civil disobedience, this new British movement demands an end to oil and gas projects. After various actions, activists have chosen to attack art to shock and to demand that the planet be protected as much as the works. After the Sunflowers of Van Gogh sprinkled with soup, the wax statue of Charles III covered … Read more
The palm oil production of the Société camerounaise de palmeraies (Socapalm) should not exceed 150,000 tonnes at the end of the 2022 financial year. production hovered around 152,323 tonnes. According to the companies, this underperformance is attributable to unfair competition from clandestine operators who, in addition to marketing the kilogram of palm nuts at exorbitant … Read more
The images of the two young women throwing soup on the famous Sunflowers by Van Gogh on Friday at the National Gallery in London have toured the world. The action was meant to be symbolic and aimed to challenge: only the frame of the 84 million dollar work was damaged, the painting being protected by … Read more
Due to the current shortage of sunflower oil, the recipes for many products have been changed. The manufacturers had undertaken to inform consumers of these changes. However, almost two thirds of them are satisfied with a vague mention “DEROG” to indicate the substitution of sunflower oil by another oil, and the same proportion of distributors … Read more
On May 9, Russia commemorated the Soviet Union’s victory over the Nazis in World War II, this year against the backdrop of clashes between the Russian army and Ukrainian troops. On the diplomatic level, the President of the European Commission is trying to convince Hungary to support an EU embargo project on Russian oil. Follow … Read more
Finding cheap oil is impossible. And it is not this news that is likely to change things! We take stock! Caution, risk of oil shortage After two years of pandemic, we really thought we would find our bearings of life before. Unfortunately, on February 24, Vladimir Putin decided to invade his Ukrainian neighbor. The television … Read more
OUR ADVICES – Olive or rapeseed? Opinions differ between nutritionists and economists. Sunflower oil has become the new yellow gold in recent weeks. In question, shortages of supply linked to the war in Ukraine, the largest exporter of sunflower oil in the world. Read alsoSunflower oil: dozens of products already affected by the recipe change, … Read more
“I’ve been doing this job for 40 years, I’ve never seen a crisis of such magnitude”: pie doughs parade on the production line of this factory in eastern France, but the sunflower oil, a major ingredient imported from Ukraine, will run out in two weeks. In Rochefort-sur-Nenon, in the Jura department, 700,000 bases of pizzas … Read more