Palm oil

Also called dendê oil, palm-oil and dende oil

Palm oil is a vegetable oil made from fruit. Cooks use it for baking.

Category: Fats & oils
Part used: Fruit
Cooked most in: Africa, Asia
Top country: Nigeria
Dishes: 44 in the catalogue
Energy: 884 kcal per 100 g

Photo: DromoTetteh · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use palm oil

Typical ways to cook or use it

Bake

Cooking with it

Palm oil is semisolid at room temperature.

Shopping

Choosing and storing palm oil

Sold as: Oil

Nutrition

What 100 g of palm oil holds

Per 100 g. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.

Protein 0%Fat 100%Carbohydrate 0%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of palm oil
Energy	884 kcal · 3,699 kJ
Protein	0 g
Fat	100 g
of which saturated	49 g
Carbohydrate	0 g
of which sugars	0 g
Fibre	0 g
Sodium	0 mg
Cholesterol	0 mg

Nutrition per 100 g of palm oil: minerals and vitamins
Iron	0.01 mg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (food 171015), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

Around the world

Where palm oil is cooked

44 dishes in the catalogue use palm oil. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Africa38
Asia4

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list palm oil among their ingredients.

On the table

Dishes made with palm oil

44 dishes in the catalogue use it.

Lontong kikil
Indonesia
Ofe Oha
Nigeria
Calulu and Funge
Angola
Djenkoume
Togo
Soup Kandia
Senegal
Amiwô
Benin
Ekpang Nkwukwo
Cameroon, Nigeria
African Salad
Nigeria
Gulai Kapau
Indonesia
Taro with yellow sauce
Cameroon
Egusi soup
Nigeria
Achu soup
Cameroon
Kerupuk puli
Indonesia
Ekuru
Nigeria
Karupuak lento
Indonesia
Sanga (Meal)
Cameroon
Draw soup
Nigeria
Edikang Ikong
Nigeria
Spicy cow foot
Nigeria
Afang
Nigeria
African salad
Nigeria
Beans and corn porridge
Nigeria
Otong soup
Nigeria
Peeled Beans Porridge
Nigeria
Ayaraya Oka
Nigeria
Isi ewu
Nigeria
Kekefia
Nigeria
Obo Ẹgwa
Nigeria
Rivers state native soup
Nigeria
Edo black soup
Nigeria
Ofe Owerri
Nigeria
Abacha Ugba
Nigeria
Asaro
Nigeria, Togo
Bambara groundnut
Nigeria
Banga Rice
Nigeria
Gbegiri
Nigeria
Miyar zogale
Nigeria
Ukwa
Nigeria
Breadfruit Porridge
Nigeria
Efo riro
Nigeria
Ọjọjọ
Nigeria
Miyar kuka
Nigeria
Fio Fio
Onunu

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include palm oil.

Family

Related forms

A kind of: vegetable oil

Around the world

What palm oil is called

Names in 81 languages, from Wikidata.

Spanish
aceite de palma
French
huile de palme · huile de palmier
Italian
olio di palma · grasso di palma
Portuguese
azeite de dendê · Óleo de palma · Azeite de dendé · Azeite-de-dendê
German
Palmöl · Palmkernöl · Palmfett · Palmenöl
Dutch
palmolie · Palmpittenolie · Palm olie
Greek
Φοινικέλαιο
Turkish
Palm yağı
Russian
пальмовое масло
Polish
olej palmowy
Arabic
زيت النخيل
Persian
روغن نخل · روغن پالم

Show all 81 languages

Akan
Ngo
Albanian
Vaji i palmës
Armenian
Արմավենու յուղ
Assamese
পাম তেল
Asturian
Aceite de palma
azb
پالم یاغی
Bangla
পাম তেল
Basque
palma-olio · palmondo-olio
Belarusian
Пальмавы алей
Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)
пальмавы алей
Brazilian Portuguese
azeite de dendê
Bulgarian
Палмово масло
Cantonese
棕櫚油
Catalan
oli de palma
Chinese
棕櫚油 · 棕油
Croatian
Palmino ulje
Czech
palmový olej
dag
Aleji
Danish
palmeolie
Esperanto
palmoleo
Estonian
Palmiõli
Finnish
Palmuöljy
Fon
Ami vɔvɔ
Frafra
Abɛ kaam · Kalam bii abɛ kaam
Galician
aceite de palma
Georgian
პალმის ზეთი
Hausa
Manja
Hebrew
שמן דקלים
Hindi
ताड़ का तेल
Hungarian
pálmaolaj
Igbo
Mmanụ nri
Indonesian
Minyak sawit
Irish
ola phailme
Japanese
パーム油 · パームオイル
Javanese
Lenga sawit
Kannada
ತಾಳೆ ಎಣ್ಣೆ
Kongo
Muamba
Korean
팜유
Latvian
Palmu eļļa
Lingala
Mafúta ma mbíla
Lithuanian
Alyvpalmių aliejus · Palmių aliejus
Macedonian
палмино масло
Malagasy
Menaka palma
Malay
Minyak kelapa sawit · Minyak sawit
Malayalam
പാമോയിൽ
Marathi
पाम तेल
Minangkabau
Minyak sawik
Norwegian Bokmål
palmeolje · palmefett
Norwegian Nynorsk
Palmeolje
Occitan
Òli de palma
Odia
ପାମୋଲିନ ତେଲ
Pashto
د خرما (نخل) غوړي
Piedmontese
Euli 'd palma
Romanian
ulei de palmier
Rundi
Amamesa
Sardinian
Ògiu de prama
Serbian
Палмино уље
Simplified Chinese
棕榈油
Simplified Chinese (China)
棕榈油
Simplified Chinese (Singapore)
棕榈油
Slovak
Palmový olej
Slovenian
palmovo olje · palmino olje
Swahili
Mawese
Swedish
palmolja · palmfett
Tamil
செம்பனை எண்ணெய் · பாமாயில்
Tatar
Пальма мае
Telugu
పామాయిల్ · పామ్‌ ఆయిల్‌
Thai
น้ำมันปาล์ม
Traditional Chinese
棕櫚油
Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)
棕櫚油
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)
棕櫚油
Ukrainian
Пальмова олія
Urdu
تاڑ کا تیل
Uzbek
Palma yog'i
Vietnamese
Dầu cọ
Wu Chinese
棕榈油
Yoruba
Epo pupa

Sources and credits

Data

GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
USDA FoodData Central (Foundation, SR Legacy): nutrition values (Public domain (US government work, CC0))
Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
Wikimedia Commons: photos

Wikidata item: Q231458

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