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Palm oil is in many things we eat and every day. It is in food, in beauty products, and in biofuel. However, producing palm oil to environmental damage because of deforestation. A team of researchers in Scotland they have an alternative to palm oil. Scientists from Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh have a wholly plant-based oil that better for the environment and for our health. The university's new PALM-ALT product is 70 per cent better for the environment. This because it is more sustainable and to less biodiversity loss. It also healthier than palm oil, with 80 per cent less saturated fat and 30 per cent fewer calories.

The researchers their work could change how things are . Around half of all the food and cosmetics we currently buy contain palm oil. The use of palm oil is , so more trees have to be down in tropical countries. PALM-ALT is made from a by-product from the linseed flower and rapeseed oil. Researcher Catriona Liddle to the BBC about PALM-ALT. She it the "holy grail" to palm oil. She found it does the same things palm oil does. She said: "We've put it through some special sensory testing to see if a panel can the difference between our product and traditional palm [oil], and they can't." She is now businesses will using it instead of regular palm oil.