Jakarta, May 11 -- The Ministry of Industry continues to accelerate the downstreaming of palm oil businesses, especially for products containing beta-carotene (pro vitamin A) and tocopherol (vitamin E), to meet people's nutritional needs.

According to the ministry's director general of agro industry, Putu Juli Ardika, not many people realize that palm oil contains important nutrients such as beta-carotene, tocopherol, medium chain triglyceride (MCT), squalane and antioxidants, which are good to maintain body health.

He explained that the modern palm oil production process through chemical oil refining actually eliminates the natural important nutritional content of palm oil. So, vitamin needs can be met from synthetic health supplements...