Abstract
A relationship between income and quality of food in human life was introduced to discuss oil and fat consumption. Population explosion and food crisis were also touched upon.
Oil and fat consumption in Japan and their consuming trend were followed where the increase of oil and fat consumption was found to be about 1.3% annually.
Palm oil from Malaysia plays a major role to determine the prices of oil and fat, while soybean meal from China determines the meal prices in Japan, where the meal import from China depresses the crushing volume of soybean in Japan.
Japanese crushing capacity and its actual processed volume were also discussed.
Finally, some interesting topics among the Government, Universities and Industries were explored as follows :
1. Saturation of oil and fat intake in Japan.
2. Controversial arguments on the nutritional evaluation of vegetable oils.
3. Environmental polution by the fried and exhausted oil.
4. Safety of imported oil and fat for human life.
5. Reasonability and acceptability of setting a special date for delivery after production.
