Sailors aboard Vasco da Gama's ships gave the coconut its name, calling it Coco, after the Portuguese word for grimacing face or hobgoblin. The word nut was added when it first came to England.
Coconut water has been used as a plasma extender when plasma blood solutions were scarce.
By 2011, Alnor topped 120 million lbs in annual sales volume.
Castor oil was the preferred lubricant for rotary engine warplanes during WWI.
Float a few tablespoons of vegetable oil on the surface of a bird bath to keep mosquitoes from using the water.
Experiments with using sunflower oil as a salad dressing exist as early as 1768.
Tung oil was mixed in the mortar that made the Great Wall of China.
Soybeans were first cultivated in China and didn’t arrive in the USA until 1804, with the first crop being grown in 1829.
Traces of palm oil have been found in a 500 year old Egyptian tomb in the city of Abydos.
In the 14th century, Chinese merchants used tung oil to waterproof their wooden ships.
Alnor was founded in 1968 by Alexander Klayman.
The Egyptians used castor oil for their lamps and ingested it with beer as a purgative, a use that has prevailed to modern times, but without the beer.
Elevators in the Statue of Liberty use a soybean based hydraulic fluid.
Castor Oil works as a good mole repellant because it doesn't kill the pests but rather encourages them to move elsewhere quickly.
Alnor has 14 stocking locations from coast to coast across the USA.
Canola was developed in the 1970's to remove the Eruric acid from rapeseed oil and make the oil fit for human consumption.
During WWII, all ammunition was coated with tung oil.
Safflower is one of oldest known crops, with traces of the seed having been found in King Tut's tomb.
Corn was domesticated 10,000 years ago in Mexico.
The Netherlands grew the tallest sunflower in 1986. It grew to 25′5.5" tall.
"Vegetable oil" is the name usually given to any oil product derived from a plant of any description, be it fruit or vegetable.
Safflower is grown in more than 60 countries worldwide.
The palm tree was first introduced into Malaysia in 1875 but was only commercially planted there in Selangor in 1917.
All of the products Alnor sells are renewable, biodegradable and non-hazardous.