No orang utans were harmed in the making of these muffins....

No, the orang utan is not munching a Magog Muffin but neither are the muffins metaphorically munching orang utans. The eponymous seed of the 'Oil palm' is finding its way into so much of our diet and orang utan forest is being chomped up by acres of oil palm plantations, beating out the biodiversity. To make sure no palm oil gets into the goodies that we pack into the muffins we monitor the "no palm oil" site (follow on twitter @kusasi) and check concerns on any ingredients back with manufacturers. One of the main culprits is chocolate so we are watching that closely and enjoying palm-oil free enterprise such as the Chokolit Company. So 'Double chocolate' muffin, although not calorie-free can at least be conscience-free. Ethical eating and happy orang utans is what we mean by ethical good taste.

















(Thanks to @AvelingArtworks for permission to use this painting of "Riang" - a name which means 'happy' in Bahasa Indonesia)