Chocolate/cakes with palm oil

Jenna_Appleseed

(thought this was too off topic for the Palm Oil free choclate spread thread)

Two I've discovered that list it in the ingredients - Marks & Spencer Love Bites (reduced/end of Valentines range - basically strawberry Cocolate mini roll slices in a bag) & M&S Spencer Bear bars ("milk chocolate with creamy malt filling" - ingredients inc "Palm Fat" & "Vegetable Shortening (Palm Oil)". Thought M&S were still a bit more ethical than that.:(

Are they're any reliable sites/lists of products containing palm oil - tried googling but only found out of date American ones.

Ben84

I'm not aware of anywhere listing the items, but it would be an immense list to even attempt to compile. Pretty much everything from food to detergents and makeup contains palm oil in some form or another. It's just cheap and versatile. Increasingly it is listed on the ingredients as palm oil, but other times the packaging simply states "vegetable oil". Unfortunately, it's abundance in foods and various products makes it virtually impossible to just avoid by shopping differently. There are whole categories of products, like margarine and ice cream which simply don't seem to have palm oil free options anywhere.