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.
Perilla Oil
Perilla oil is a cooking oil pressed from the seeds of the perilla plant (Perilla frutescens), a member of the …
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Palm Oil Cottonseed Oil
Palm oil is a vegetable oil derived from the fruit of oil palms. Cottonseed oil is extracted from the seeds …
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Parfried In Soybean Oil
Parfried in soybean oil means that a food product has been partially fried in soybean oil. Soybean oil is a …
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Poppy Seed Dressing
Poppy seed dressing is a salad dressing that gets its name from the inclusion of poppy seeds. It is typically …
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Highly Refined Palm Oil
Highly refined palm oil is a vegetable fat extracted from the fruit of the oil palm tree. It undergoes extensive …
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Soybean And Or Cottonseed
Soybean oil is a vegetable oil extracted from the seeds of the soybean plant. Cottonseed oil is extracted from the …
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Oils: Interesterified Soybean
Interesterified soybean oil is a type of soybean oil that has been modified through a process called interesterification. This process …
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Which One Or More Of The Following: Corn Oil
Corn oil is a vegetable oil extracted from the germ of corn kernels. It is a common cooking oil and …
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Partially Hydrogenated Soybean &/or Cottonseed Oil
Partially hydrogenated soybean and/or cottonseed oil is a type of vegetable oil that has undergone a process called partial hydrogenation. …
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Ranch Dressing: 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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Sunflower Oil With Natural Tocopherols
Sunflower oil is a vegetable oil extracted from the seeds of the sunflower. It is a common cooking oil, and …
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Highly Refined Fish Oil
Highly refined fish oil is a liquid made from fatty fish like anchovies, sardines, and mackerel. The fish are cooked, …
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Soybean Palm Canola Oil
A blend of oils derived from soybeans, palm fruit, and canola (rapeseed). These vegetable oils are extracted from their plant …
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Vegetable Shorting
Vegetable shortening is a solid fat made from vegetable oils, such as soybean, palm, or cottonseed oil. It is typically …
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Partially Hydrogenated Palm And Soybean Oils
Partially hydrogenated palm and soybean oils are fats that have undergone a process called partial hydrogenation. This process adds hydrogen …
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Palm Kernel And Partially Hydrogenated Palm Oils
Palm kernel oil is a vegetable oil extracted from the kernel (seed) of the oil palm fruit. Partially hydrogenated palm …
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Beef Fat/powder
Beef fat is the rendered fat obtained from cattle. It is typically solid at room temperature. Beef fat powder is …
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Mayonnaise Dressing
Mayonnaise is a thick, creamy sauce or dressing. It is typically made from oil, egg yolk, and an acid like …
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Containing One Or More Of The Following: Canola Oil
Canola oil is a vegetable oil made from the seeds of the canola plant. The seeds are cleaned, crushed, and …
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Hydrogenated Soybean Cottonseed Oils
Hydrogenated soybean and cottonseed oils are vegetable oils that have undergone a process called hydrogenation. This process adds hydrogen to …
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Dehydrated Shortening
Dehydrated shortening is a solid fat, typically made from vegetable oils like soybean or cottonseed oil. These oils are hydrogenated, …
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Oil Packet: 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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Unrefined Coconut Oil
Unrefined coconut oil is the fat extracted from fresh coconut meat. It is made by pressing the coconut meat to …
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Organic Expeller Pressed Oil
Organic expeller pressed oil is a vegetable oil extracted from seeds or fruits using a mechanical pressing method without the …
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Organic Palm Oil Organic Canola Oil Organic Sunflower Oil
Organic palm oil is a vegetable oil extracted from the fruit of oil palm trees. It is a semi-solid fat …
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Soybean And Rapeseed To Prevent Separation
Soybean and rapeseed are common oilseed crops. The oils extracted from these plants are refined and processed to create stable …
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Soybean And Rapeseed
Soybeans and rapeseed are oilseed crops. Soybeans are legumes, while rapeseed is a flowering plant in the mustard family. Both …
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Palm Oil Milk
Palm Oil Milk is a plant-based liquid that combines palm oil with water and other ingredients to create a milk-like …
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Sheanut Oil
Sheanut oil, also known as shea butter, is a fat extracted from the nut of the African shea tree. The …
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Canola Oil Palm Oil Sunflower Oil
Canola oil is a vegetable oil made from the seeds of the rapeseed plant. The name "canola" comes from "Canadian …
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Soy Canola
Soy Canola is a blend of soybean oil and canola oil, both vegetable oils. Soybean oil comes from soybeans, and …
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Safflower Oil Red Palm Olein
Safflower oil is a cooking oil extracted from the seeds of the safflower plant. Red palm olein is a fractionated …
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Treated With Sunflower Oil
Sunflower oil is a vegetable oil extracted from the seeds of the sunflower plant. When a food product is "treated …
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Palm Kernel Coconut
Palm kernel coconut oil is a blend of oils derived from the kernel of the oil palm tree and the …
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Canola Cottonseed Soybean
Canola, cottonseed, and soybean are all types of vegetable oils. Canola oil comes from the seeds of the rapeseed plant. …
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High Oleic Sunflower Seed Oil
High oleic sunflower seed oil is a type of oil pressed from the seeds of the sunflower plant. It is …
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Palm Oil Non-gmo Canola Oil
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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Palm Kernel Oil With TBHQ To Preserve Freshness
Palm kernel oil is a hard, white fat derived from the seed of the oil palm fruit. It is similar …
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Canola Palm Kernel
Canola palm kernel is a blend of two different oils: canola oil and palm kernel oil. Canola oil comes from …
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Canola Oil Sunflower Oil Safflower Oil
Canola oil is a vegetable oil made from the seeds of the rapeseed plant. Sunflower oil comes from pressing sunflower …
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Pistachio Butter
Pistachio butter is a spread made from ground pistachios. It is produced by roasting pistachios and then grinding them until …
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Organic Modified Palm Oil
Organic modified palm oil is a type of fat derived from palm fruit. The oil undergoes a process called modification, …
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Breading Set In Canola Oil
Breading set in canola oil is a pre-fried coating applied to foods like chicken or vegetables. It typically includes flour, …
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Vegetable Oil Soybean
Soybean oil is a vegetable oil extracted from the seeds of the soybean plant. It is one of the most …
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Cottonseed Or Canola Oil
Cottonseed oil is extracted from the seeds of cotton plants. Canola oil is made from rapeseed plants. Both oils are …
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Expeller Pressed Soy Oil
Expeller-pressed soy oil is a vegetable oil extracted from soybeans using mechanical pressure, without the use of chemical solvents. This …
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Soybean And / Or Canola
Soybean oil is extracted from soybeans, and canola oil is extracted from rapeseed. Both are common vegetable oils used in …
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Monounsaturated Safflower Oil
Monounsaturated safflower oil is a type of cooking oil pressed from the seeds of the safflower plant. It is known …
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Beef Shortening
Beef shortening is a solid fat made from rendered beef fat, primarily suet. Rendering involves melting the fat and separating …
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Corn Soybean Cottonseed Oil
These are common vegetable oils extracted from corn, soybeans, and cottonseeds. They are produced by pressing the seeds and then …
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Note:
This site presents label data from USDA FoodData Central for general information. It is not medical advice.
Check the package label; formulations change.