A YouTube video where a man leaves a Nutella jar in the sun to separate the palm oil from the other ingredients resurfaced this week online.
The man leaves the Nutella jar in his car, where the temperature reaches 60 degrees. When he comes back, eight hours later, a large amount of oil is floating at the top of the jar.
He fills up a whole glass with the oil.
Part of the oil is from the hazelnuts, but most of it is from palm oil, the second ingredient in quantity in Nutella, just after sugar.
Palm Oil has proved to be quite a contentious ingredient in many items on supermarket shelves.
Many environmentalists argue that our insatiable desire for snack food, which often contain the ingredient, is destroying the world’s forests. Read more about that here:
More recently, talk of building a more environmentally-sustainable palm oil industry has surfaced but it appears there were flaws in the industry audit. Read more here:
So should we be eating Nutella at all? Here's what SBS Food has to say, as the current trend for Nutella freakshakes and 'Tella Balls' or Nutella-stuffed donuts takes over foodie-Instagrams everywhere:
