Disrupting palm oil’s dominance? Scientists develop eco-friendly alternative targeting bakery applications

PALM-ALT is a palm fat replacer that scientists claim can reduce industry’s dependence on #palmOil, which is often linked to #deforestation and for many consumers is considered an ingredient to avoid.

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Disrupting palm oil’s dominance? Scientists develop eco-friendly alternative targeting bakery applications

21 Sep 2023 --- A team of scientists in Scotland have discovered what they are hailing as a high-class alternative to the popular yet controversial palm oil which is abundantly used throughout the F&B industry.

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Beaches are places of intertidal liminality. Transient, impermanent and ever changing. To be the first person to walk on the sands as the tide retreats, is to find the world remade.

#Galloway #Scotland #History #blackandwhitephotography

The Blue Hour at Loch Tollaidh, in Wester Ross, North West Scotland

#Bluehour #Scotland #WesterRoss #NC500 #Poolewe #Autumn #SeasonofMists

New job, new #introduction post!

I work at Heriot-Watt's #Orkney campus in the far north of #Scotland. Programme lead for MSc in #Renewable and Sustainable #Energy Transition. Research at the intersection of #renewable #energy & physical #oceanography. Member of icnz.org/

Not my first career.

I care about the #reproducibility of computational science. I'm a fellow of the Software Sustainability Inst (software.ac.uk) and instructor for Software Carpentry (thecarpentries.org).

Decarbonising Scotland’s islands

The Islands Centre for Net Zero will address the need for fundamental change in how we approach the energy transition across Orkney, Shetland and the Outer Hebrides.

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More photographs of Edinburgh for Saint Andrew's Day 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Loch Shiel, Scottish Highlands

#photography #landscapephotography #nikon #scotland