Hello and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC with me, Manuela Saragossa.

Coming up, the unsavory truth about much of the food we eat.

We have around 20,000 food products.

Nearly 50% may contain palm oil.

And it's totally associated with deforestation.

But has the biotech industry come up with a synthetic

alternative without burning down or clearing any tropical rainforest? We make a bio-based palm oil

using fermentation. We feed it sugars and then the yeast grow and they're able to produce

large amounts of oil within their cells.

What it all means for the future of palm oil, that's coming up here in Business Daily from the BBC.

There's a rang tan in my bedroom, and I don't know what to do.

She plays with all my teddies and keeps borrowing my shoe. She destroys all of my houseplants and she keeps on shouting,

ooh. She throws away my chocolate and she howls at my shampoo. Chocolate spread, shampoo,

soap, look around your house and you'll be hard pressedpressed to find a product that doesn't contain palm oil.

But growing palm oil trees has involved the destruction of tropical rainforests, as this advert from 2018 made clear.

There's a human in my forest and I don't know what to do.

We destroyed all of our trees for your food and your shampoo. There's a human in my forest and I don't know what to do. He destroyed all of our trees for your food and your shampoo.

There's a human in my forest and I don't know what to do. He took away my mother and I'm scared.

He'll take me too. There are humans in my forest and I don't know what to do. They're burning it

for palm oil. So I thought I'd stay with you.

That advert was made by Greenpeace here in the UK two years ago for a British supermarket chain called Iceland,

after it removed palm oil from all its own label food.

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