Unilever Using Rapeseed Oil Following War-Induced Shortages of Sunflower Oil

Unilever Using Rapeseed Oil Following War-Induced Shortages of Sunflower Oil
A Ukrainian army tank in a sunflower field near Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, on Aug. 5, 2014. Ukraine accounts for almost 50 percent of the world’s sunflower oil exports. Andrey Krasnoschekov/AFP via Getty Images
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British multinational consumer goods company Unilever has altered some of its recipes to use rapeseed oil instead of sunflower oil owing to a global shortage of the latter triggered by Russia’s war against Ukraine.

Edible oils are the “most significantly impacted commodity sector” that Unilever is currently dealing with, according to the company.