Essay On Oreo Cookies

Miguel, Maravilla

English 103

Consider the Orangutans

Most of us have grown up to the Oreo cookie; it has been America’s favorite cookie for many years, as well as my own. There has even been a “debate” as to how we eat them, from dunking them in milk or twisting one side and eating the filling first. The Oreo cookie is made up of two chocolate wafers with the sweet white creamy middle in between the wafers. Oreos have sold “Over 362 billion” sold since it was first introduced in (1912), making it the bestselling cookie of the 20th century. the line of production for the Oreo cookie was brought into stores by the” National Biscuit Company” best known as (Nabisco) The Nabisco Company is the American maker of cookies, as well as for other snacks sold in the United States such as “Ritz, Chips Ahoy, Teddy Gram” and many more. The Oreos filling was created by Nabisco principal food scientist, Sam Porcello or also nicknamed “Mr. Oreo”. The process of making the Oreo cookie starts at the Nabisco company industry; a two-stage process is used to make Oreo cookies.

Many companies began switching to palm oil, which is desired because it is semi-solid at room temperature, making it useful in products such as cookies, crackers, spreads, and bars. Palm oil can now be found in such snacking favorites as Nabisco. The change has impacted the outbreak in obtain the Palm oil. More than 80% of the world's palm oil comes from those two countries, where it is grown primarily on land that once was rainforest or peat-swamp forests. When those forest areas are cleared, habitat for endangered animals is destroyed. A report done by Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) obtained the information “Almost 90% of orangutan habitat in Indonesia and Malaysia has now been destroyed”. (CSPI) experts estimate that 5,000 orangutan perish as a result every