. . "Palm oil (also known as dend\u00EA oil, from Portuguese) is an edible vegetable oil derived from the mesocarp (reddish pulp) of the fruit of the oil palms, primarily the African oil palm Elaeis guineensis, and to a lesser extent from the American oil palm Elaeis oleifera and the maripa palm Attalea maripa.Palm oil is naturally reddish in color because of a high beta-carotene content."@en .