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.
Flavored Oil
Flavored oil is a cooking oil that has been infused with natural or artificial flavors. These flavors can come from …
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Chocolatey Coating: Coconut Oil
Coconut oil is a plant-based fat extracted from the meat of mature coconuts. It is solid at room temperature in …
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Vegetable Oil 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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Water Olive Oil
Olive oil is a liquid fat made from olives, the fruit of the olive tree. Olives are pressed or crushed …
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Hydrogenated Soybean Sunflower Seed
Hydrogenated soybean and sunflower seed oils are fats that have been altered through a process called hydrogenation. This process adds …
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Fat Flakes
Fat flakes are a food ingredient made from a blend of fats and starches. They are typically produced by combining …
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Phase
Phase is a brand name for a type of shortening, a solid fat used in baking. It is made from …
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Sugar And Soybean Oil
This ingredient combines sugar, a simple carbohydrate that provides sweetness, and soybean oil, a vegetable oil derived from soybeans. Sugar …
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Water Vegetable Shortening
Water vegetable shortening is a solid fat made from vegetable oils. These oils are typically liquid at room temperature and …
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Sunflower And Canola Oils
Sunflower and canola oils are common cooking oils derived from the seeds of sunflowers and the seeds of the canola …
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Canola High Oleic Oil And Palm Oil And /or Fractions
This ingredient is a blend of two types of vegetable oils: high oleic canola oil and palm oil, or fractions …
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Peanut Sunflower Seed Canola Safflower Oil
This is a blend of oils derived from peanuts, sunflowers, and canola seeds. These plants are grown for their seeds …
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Soybean Or Palm Or Kernel Or Cottonseed Oil
These are common vegetable oils extracted from soybeans, palm fruit, or cottonseed. They are processed to remove impurities and often …
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Sunflower Oil And Smoke And Rendered Bacon Fat
This ingredient is a blend of sunflower oil, smoke flavor, and rendered bacon fat. Sunflower oil is extracted from sunflower …
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Non-dairy Butter
Non-dairy butter is a spread designed to mimic the taste and texture of traditional butter but without any animal-derived ingredients, …
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Peanut Safflower Oil
Peanut safflower oil is a blend of peanut oil and safflower oil. Peanut oil is extracted from roasted peanuts, while …
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Palm Kernel &/or Palm Oils
Palm kernel oil is a type of vegetable oil derived from the seed (kernel) of the oil palm tree. It …
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Palm Oil With Sunflower Lecithin And Natural Flavor
Palm oil is a vegetable oil derived from the fruit of oil palm trees. It is a semi-solid fat at …
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Refined Pork Fat With BHT And BHA Added To Protect Flavor
This ingredient is lard, which is pork fat that has been purified or refined. It is often treated with BHT …
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Coconut And Palm Kernel Soybean
This ingredient is a blend of fats derived from coconut, palm kernel, and soybean oils. These oils are processed and …
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Coconut Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Cottonseed
This ingredient is a blend of fats derived from coconut, soybean, and cottonseed oils. It is created through a process …
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Hydrogenated Palm Kernel And Palm Oil
This ingredient is a type of fat that comes from palm fruit. It is made by adding hydrogen to liquid …
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Fractionated Palm Kernel And Palm Oils
Fractionated palm kernel and palm oils are derived from palm fruit. The process involves separating the oil into different components …
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2% Or Less: 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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85% Canola Oil
Canola oil is a vegetable oil made from the seeds of the canola plant. The plant is a cultivar of …
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Nonorganic Avocado Oil
Avocado oil is a cooking oil made from the pulp of avocados. The oil is extracted from the fruit, often …
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Natural Flavored Oil 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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Organic Coconut Blend
Organic Coconut Blend is a mixture of ingredients derived from coconuts, often including coconut milk or cream and other plant-based …
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Mono-and Diglicerides
Mono- and diglycerides are a type of fat that can be found naturally in foods like butter and vegetable oils. …
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Processing Aid To Prevent Sticking: Organic Sunflower Oil
Organic sunflower oil is a vegetable oil pressed from the seeds of the sunflower. It is produced by crushing sunflower …
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Sweet Chocolate And Coconut Oil Coating
This is a coating made from sweet chocolate and coconut oil. Sweet chocolate is made from cocoa solids, cocoa butter, …
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100% Expeller Pressed Virgin Unrefined Organic Coconut Oil
Coconut oil is a fat extracted from the meat of mature coconuts. Virgin coconut oil is made from fresh, dried …
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Light Mayonnaise Dressing
Light mayonnaise dressing is a reduced-fat, reduced-calorie version of traditional mayonnaise. It is made by replacing some of the oil …
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Cured Rendered Pork Fat
Cured rendered pork fat is fat from pigs that has been preserved, often with salt. It is obtained by heating …
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Nonhydrogenated Palm Kernel And Palm Oil
Palm kernel oil and palm oil are vegetable oils derived from the fruit of oil palm trees. Palm kernel oil …
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Rubbed With: 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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Flavored Vegetable Oil
Flavored vegetable oil is a cooking oil that has been infused with natural or artificial flavors. Vegetable oils are typically …
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Canola Oil And Tocopherol
Canola oil is a vegetable oil made from the seeds of the canola plant. It is processed to remove impurities …
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Palm Oil Interesterified Soy Bean Oil
Palm oil interesterified soybean oil is a blend of vegetable oils that have undergone a process called interesterification. This process …
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Vegetable Oil Oils: Canola
Canola oil is a vegetable oil made from the seeds of the canola plant. The plant is a cultivar of …
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High Oleic Acid Sunflower Oil
High oleic acid sunflower oil is a type of sunflower oil that has been bred or processed to contain a …
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Soybean Oil Egg Yolks
Soybean oil is a vegetable oil extracted from the seeds of the soybean plant. Egg yolks are the yellow, central …
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Vegetable Oils Palm Kernel Oil
Palm kernel oil is a type of vegetable oil that comes from the seed of the oil palm tree. It …
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Sustainable Palm
Sustainable palm oil is a vegetable oil derived from the fruit of oil palm trees. It is grown in tropical …
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Expeller Pressed Refined Avocado Oil
Expeller pressed refined avocado oil is a cooking oil extracted from the flesh of avocados. The expeller-pressing method uses mechanical …
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Sunflower Dil
Sunflower oil is a vegetable oil derived from sunflower seeds. It is produced by pressing the seeds to extract the …
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Real Butter
Butter is a dairy product made by churning fresh or fermented cream or milk. This process separates the butterfat from …
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Roasted In Peanut Sunflower Oil
This ingredient is a blend of roasted peanuts and sunflower oil. The peanuts are roasted to enhance their flavor and …
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Palm Rspo
RSPO palm oil is palm oil produced by companies certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). Palm oil …
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Ie All Purpose All Soy Shortening
All-purpose shortening is a solid fat made from vegetable oils, often soy oil. It is processed to be stable and …
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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.