Simply Put: Oil ain’t well

More than intoxicating

Yet government policy has forced many people to give up mahua -- their nutritious staple food

Palm oil and environmental, social challenges in India: The road ahead

Deforestation, damaging effects on the environment and human rights violation are among major challenges related to palm oil production 

Palm plantations

Green palm oil

Mustard oil blending banned: How 30 years of regulation affected health, farmer profits

The dropsy epidemic of 1999 led the Union government to allow blending of mustard oil to increase nutritional quality. But it impacted the …

Oil palm in India’s northeast: economy v ecology

India is promoting oil palm plantations in northeastern states, but this could have negative impacts on the region’s biodiversity

High-yield Heera

Detective poles

Magnets to check fat content of milk, adulterated oil

Food for oil

By giving up on traditional oils, we lose out on nutrition

Flower power

DROPSY CASE

A good way to spend money

How India can be ‘atmanirbhar’ for edible oil production

In 2019, India imported around 15 million tons of edible oils worth approximately Rs 7,300 crore

Deadly slip up

An adulterated cooking medium sparks off panic in India, but the government remains clueless on how to deal with the crisis

Waiter fill 'er up

Restaurants and other eateries could hold the trumps in the battle against spiralling petrol prices

It's bean fuel

A fuel from a vegetable source that is non-toxic, biodegradable and can be used in conventional diesel engines with little or no modifications

Oil's not well

The mustard oil industry is in severe crisis. vibha varshney finds out why

Eco-friendly printing ink from vegetable oil

Coconut courier service

The economy of a village is built around coconuts—delivered free to a shrine via buses

FSSAI launches awareness drive on trans fats

Impact of trans fats on human health in India is increasing and awareness about them is vital if they are to be eliminated altogether, says FSSAI head

Can India achieve its goal to be a zero trans fats nation by 2022?

Not if the food industry has its way. They do not see a link between trans fats and ill health 

Oil alert

Don’t eat the rainforests: Top brands complicit in Indonesia’s ecosystem destruction, probe alleges

Companies procuring oil from and financing the Royal Golden Eagle, which set up palm oil and pulp plantations in Indonesia, finds investigation

Can adulteration of edible oils be addressed by the Goonda Act?

Madras HC recently called for classifying those who adulterate food as goons; but we need long-term solutions