Fats & Oils in Food
Fats and oils add richness and texture and carry fat-soluble flavors. This list covers vegetable oils, butterfat and other fats used in packaged foods.
Nut And Seed Butter Blend
A blend of butters made from various nuts and seeds, such as peanuts, almonds, cashews, sunflower seeds, and sesame seeds. …
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Sauce Soybean Oil
Soybean oil is a vegetable oil extracted from the seeds of the soybean plant. It is one of the most …
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Pili Nuts
Pili nuts are the edible seeds of the pili tree, native to Southeast Asia and Africa. They are harvested from …
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Canola Corn Oil With TBHQ For Freshness
Canola oil is a vegetable oil made from rapeseed. It is processed to remove certain compounds, then refined, bleached, and …
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Palm Stearine Oil
Palm stearine oil is a solid fat fraction obtained from palm oil. It is separated from liquid palm olein through …
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Blend Of Plant-based Oils
A blend of plant-based oils is a mixture of two or more edible oils derived from plants. These oils can …
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Coconut Palm Palm Kernel
Coconut palm kernel oil is a vegetable oil extracted from the kernel of the coconut palm fruit. It is a …
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Mid-oleic Sunflower Oil High-oleic Sunflower Oil
Sunflower oil is a vegetable oil extracted from the seeds of the sunflower plant. Mid-oleic and high-oleic sunflower oils are …
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Fractionated Interesterified Palm Oil
Fractionated interesterified palm oil is a type of vegetable oil made from palm oil. It is produced by physically separating …
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Palm Oil With TBHQ For Freshness
Palm oil is a vegetable oil extracted from the fruit of oil palm trees. TBHQ (tertiary butylhydroquinone) is a synthetic …
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Palm Soybean Oil With Emulsifier
This ingredient is a blend of palm oil and soybean oil, often with an emulsifier added. Palm oil comes from …
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Mechanically Pressed Organic Palm Oil
Mechanically pressed organic palm oil is a vegetable oil extracted from the fruit of the oil palm tree. The 'mechanically …
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Vegetable Palm Fat
Palm fat is a type of vegetable oil extracted from the fruit of the oil palm tree. It is naturally …
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Palm Oil And Sea Salt
Palm oil is a vegetable oil derived from the fruit of oil palm trees. It is a semi-solid at room …
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Sunflower And / Or Safflower Oil
Sunflower oil is extracted from the seeds of sunflowers, and safflower oil comes from the seeds of the safflower plant. …
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Palm Kernel And Fully Hydrogenated Palm
Palm kernel oil comes from the seeds of palm trees. Fully hydrogenated palm oil is palm oil that has undergone …
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Vegetable Oils: Canola Oil
Canola oil is a vegetable oil made from the seeds of the rapeseed plant. The name 'canola' is a portmanteau …
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Partially Hydrogenated Canola Oil
Partially hydrogenated canola oil is a type of fat made from canola oil that has undergone a process called partial …
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Soyabean Oil
Soybean oil is a vegetable oil extracted from the seeds of the soybean plant. It is one of the most …
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Alessi Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Extra virgin olive oil is the highest grade of olive oil, made from the fruit of the olive tree. It …
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Peanut Spread
Peanut spread is a food product made primarily from roasted peanuts that have been ground into a paste. Additional ingredients …
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Modified Palm And Palm Kernel
Modified palm and palm kernel refer to palm oil and palm kernel oil that have been processed to change their …
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Beef Fat Or Vegetable Oil
This ingredient indicates that a food product contains either rendered fat from cattle (beef fat) or oil extracted from plants …
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Mustard Seed Oil
Mustard seed oil is a vegetable oil made from the seeds of the mustard plant. The seeds are typically pressed …
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Algae Oil
Algae oil is a vegetable oil derived from microalgae. It is produced by cultivating specific strains of algae, then extracting …
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Sunflower Safflower Canola Oil
This is a blend of oils derived from sunflower, safflower, and canola seeds. The seeds are typically pressed to extract …
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Canola Soy Palm Oil
Canola oil is a vegetable oil made from the seeds of the canola plant. The plant was developed in Canada …
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Sugar Vegetable Shortening
Vegetable shortening is a solid fat made from vegetable oils. The oils are typically hydrogenated, a process that makes them …
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Organic Canola
Canola is a type of oilseed rape bred to have low erucic acid and glucosinolates. It is grown from the …
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Partially Hydrogenated Soy And Cottonseed Oil
Partially hydrogenated soy and cottonseed oil is a type of fat made from liquid soybean and cottonseed oils. These vegetable …
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Partially Hydrogenated Cottonseed & Soybean Oils
Partially hydrogenated cottonseed and soybean oils are fats derived from cottonseed and soybean plants. They are produced by a process …
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High Oleic Canola Oil Palm Oil Canola Oil Soybean Oil
This entry refers to a blend of common vegetable oils: high oleic canola oil, palm oil, canola oil, and soybean …
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Partially Hydrogenated Vegetable Fat
Partially hydrogenated vegetable fat is a type of fat made from liquid vegetable oils, such as soybean, cottonseed, or palm …
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Organic Macadamia Nuts
Macadamia nuts are the seeds of the macadamia tree, native to Australia. They are typically harvested, shelled, and then roasted …
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Soy & Coconut Oils
Soy and coconut oils are fats extracted from soybeans and coconuts, respectively. Soy oil is made by crushing soybeans and …
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Soybean And Hydrogenated Soybean Oils
Soybean oil is a common vegetable oil extracted from soybeans. Hydrogenated soybean oil is produced by adding hydrogen to soybean …
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Roasted In Expeller Pressed Canola Sunflower Oil
This ingredient is a blend of oils derived from canola and sunflower seeds. The oils are extracted using an expeller …
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Vegetable Shortening Containing One Or More Of The Following
Vegetable shortening is a solid fat made from vegetable oils. It is typically produced by hydrogenating liquid vegetable oils, a …
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Expeller-pressed Palm Kernel Oil
Expeller-pressed palm kernel oil is a vegetable oil extracted from the kernel, or seed, of the oil palm fruit. It …
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Organic Fair Trade Cocoa Butter
Cocoa butter is the natural fat found in cocoa beans. It is extracted from the cocoa bean during the process …
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Walnuts With BHT Added To Protect Flavor
Walnuts are the edible seeds of trees from the genus Juglans. They are a good source of healthy fats, protein, …
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High Oleic Expeller Pressed Sunflower Oil Or Safflower Oil
These are oils extracted from sunflowers or safflower seeds that have been bred to have a higher percentage of oleic …
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Lipolyzed Milk Fat
Lipolyzed milk fat is a type of milk fat that has undergone a process called lipolysis. This process breaks down …
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Partially Hydrogenated Soy
Partially hydrogenated soy is a type of fat derived from soybean oil. It undergoes a process called partial hydrogenation, which …
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Sunflower And Or Canola Oil
Sunflower oil is extracted from the seeds of the sunflower plant, and canola oil is extracted from the seeds of …
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Blend Of Vegetable Fats And Oils
This ingredient is a mixture of fats and oils derived from various plant sources, such as soybeans, canola, palm, or …
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Non-hydrogenated Vegetable Fats
Non-hydrogenated vegetable fats are fats and oils derived from plants that have not undergone the chemical process of hydrogenation. This …
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Roasted In Canola
Roasted in canola is a term used to describe foods, typically nuts or seeds, that have been roasted using canola …
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Extra Virgin Avocado Oil
Extra virgin avocado oil is a cooking oil pressed from the pulp of avocados. It is made by mechanically pressing …
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Expeller Pressed Sunflower
Expeller pressed sunflower oil is a vegetable oil made from the seeds of the sunflower plant. The 'expeller pressed' method …
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Other ingredient types
Note:
This site presents label data from USDA FoodData Central for general information. It is not medical advice.
Check the package label; formulations change.