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.
Roasted In Cocoa Butter Sunflower Oil
This ingredient is a type of oil derived from sunflower seeds that have been roasted. The roasting process is thought …
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Organic Sunflower Seed Butter
Organic sunflower seed butter is a spread made from roasted organic sunflower seeds. The seeds are ground until they form …
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Palm Soybean And Hydrogenated Soybean
This ingredient is a blend of palm oil and soybean oil that has been hydrogenated. Hydrogenation is a process that …
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Hydrogenated Cottonseed And Rapeseed Oil
Hydrogenated cottonseed and rapeseed oil is a fat derived from cotton seeds and rapeseed (canola). These liquid vegetable oils undergo …
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High Oleic Oil
High oleic oils are vegetable oils that have been bred or processed to have a higher concentration of oleic acid, …
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Palm And Modified Palm Oil
Palm oil is a vegetable oil derived from the fruit of oil palms. Modified palm oil has undergone processing to …
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High Oleic Soybean High Oleic Canola
High oleic soybean oil and high oleic canola oil are vegetable oils extracted from specially bred varieties of soybean and …
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Canola Soybean Palm Oil With TBHQ
This is a blend of oils derived from canola (rapeseed) and soybeans, with the addition of TBHQ (tert-Butylhydroquinone). Canola oil …
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Safflower Oil Sunflower Oil
Safflower oil and sunflower oil are vegetable oils extracted from the seeds of the safflower plant (Carthamus tinctorius) and the …
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Palm Kernel Fat
Palm kernel fat is a type of vegetable oil derived from the seed (kernel) of the oil palm tree. It …
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Prefried In Vegetable Oil
Prefried in vegetable oil means that a food product has been partially cooked in hot oil before being packaged. This …
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Partially Hydrogenated Soybean
Partially hydrogenated soybean oil is a type of fat derived from soybeans. It is made by adding hydrogen to liquid …
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Rice Oil
Rice oil, also known as rice bran oil, is a vegetable oil extracted from the bran of rice grains. The …
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Non-hydrogenated
Non-hydrogenated describes fats and oils that have not undergone a chemical process called hydrogenation. This means their natural structure, particularly …
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Triglycerides
Triglycerides are the main type of fat found in foods and in the human body. They are made of three …
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Virgin Olive Oil
Virgin olive oil is the oil extracted from the fruit of the olive tree. It is made by pressing olives …
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Mayonnaise 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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Partially Hydrogenated Palm Kernel & Cottonseed Oils
Partially hydrogenated palm kernel and cottonseed oils are vegetable oils that have undergone a process called partial hydrogenation. This process …
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Roasted Sesame Oil
Roasted sesame oil is a cooking oil made from sesame seeds that have been roasted before pressing. Roasting brings out …
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Partially Hydrogenated Palm Kernel
Partially hydrogenated palm kernel oil is a type of fat made from palm kernel oil. Palm kernel oil comes from …
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Expeller Pressed High Oleic Sunflower Oil
High oleic sunflower oil is a type of sunflower oil that has been bred or processed to contain a higher …
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Peanut Canola Oil
Peanut canola oil is a blend of oils derived from peanuts and canola seeds. Canola oil comes from the seeds …
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Organic Expeller-pressed Palm Oil
Palm oil is a vegetable oil extracted from the fruit of the oil palm tree. "Expeller-pressed" means the oil is …
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Highly Refined Coconut Oil
Highly refined coconut oil is a vegetable oil extracted from the meat of mature coconuts. It is processed to remove …
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Organic Expeller-pressed Vegetable Oil
Expeller-pressed vegetable oil is oil that has been extracted from plants using mechanical pressure, without the use of chemical solvents …
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Non-hydrogenated Vegetable Oil Shortening
Non-hydrogenated vegetable oil shortening is a solid fat made from vegetable oils like soybean, palm, or canola. It is created …
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Palm Corn Oil
Palm corn oil is a blend of palm oil and corn oil, both of which are vegetable oils. Palm oil …
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Soybean And Modified Palm Oil
This ingredient is a blend of soybean oil and palm oil that has been modified. Soybean oil comes from soybeans, …
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Expeller Pressed Vegetable Oil
Expeller pressed vegetable oil is a type of cooking oil extracted from plants using a mechanical press, called an expeller. …
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Palm Cottonseed Canola Oil
Palm oil, cottonseed oil, and canola oil are all vegetable oils. Palm oil comes from the fruit of oil palm …
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Creamed Coconut
Creamed coconut is a thick, unsweetened paste made from the flesh of mature coconuts. The coconut flesh is dried, then …
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Fully Hydrogenated Cottonseed Oil
Fully hydrogenated cottonseed oil is a fat made from cottonseed oil. Through a process called full hydrogenation, hydrogen atoms are …
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Organic Oleic Sunflower Oil
Organic oleic sunflower oil is a type of sunflower oil that is high in monounsaturated fats, specifically oleic acid. It …
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Flax Seed Oil
Flax seed oil is extracted from the seeds of the flax plant (Linum usitatissimum). The seeds are typically pressed or …
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Hydrogenated Soybean
Hydrogenated soybean oil is a vegetable oil that has undergone a process called hydrogenation. This process adds hydrogen atoms to …
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Roasted In Cottonseed Oil
Cottonseed oil is a vegetable oil extracted from the seeds of cotton plants. After the cotton fibers are removed, the …
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Soybean Oil And Palm Oil
Soybean oil is a vegetable oil extracted from the seeds of the soybean plant. Palm oil is derived from the …
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Refined Fish Oil
Refined fish oil is a liquid fat extracted from the tissues of fish. It is purified through processes like filtering, …
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Sunflower Cottonseed Oil
Sunflower cottonseed oil is a blend of oils derived from sunflower seeds and cottonseed. The seeds are typically pressed to …
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Organic Expeller Pressed Sunflower Seed Oil
Sunflower seed oil is a vegetable oil extracted from sunflower seeds. For organic expeller pressed sunflower seed oil, the seeds …
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Canola Cottonseed
Cottonseed oil is a vegetable oil extracted from the seeds of cotton plants. The seeds are typically separated from the …
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Soy Canola Oil
Soy canola oil is a blend of soybean oil and canola oil. Soybean oil comes from the seeds of the …
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Refined Sunflower Oil
Refined sunflower oil is a vegetable oil made from sunflower seeds. The seeds are pressed to extract the oil, which …
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Fully Hydrogenated Palm Kernel Oil
Fully hydrogenated palm kernel oil is a fat derived from the kernel, or seed, of the oil palm fruit. It …
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Sunflower Corn Oil
Sunflower corn oil is a blend of oils derived from sunflowers and corn. These oils are extracted from the seeds …
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Safflower Canola
Safflower Canola is a type of oil made from a blend of safflower and canola seeds. Both safflower and canola …
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Hydrogenated Rapeseed Oil
Hydrogenated rapeseed oil is a type of oil made from rapeseed (also known as canola). It is created by adding …
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Fried In Soybean Oil
Soybean oil is a vegetable oil extracted from the seeds of soybeans. When food is 'fried in soybean oil,' it …
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Sunflower Oil Or Canola Oil
Sunflower oil is a vegetable oil extracted from sunflower seeds. Canola oil is made from the seeds of a cultivar …
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High Oleic Soybean Oil High Oleic Canola Oil
High oleic soybean oil and high oleic canola oil are types of vegetable oils that have been bred or processed …
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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.