Major Vegetable Oils Through out World

A report By

Mr Allah Dad Khan

Edible oils

A wide variety of edible oils is available at most grocery stores. Corn oil and vegetable oil are popular because they are usually the least expensive, but these oils are heavily processed and high in trans fats. Regularly consuming processed oils increases your risk of developing hypertension, coronary artery disease and a variety of other ailments. When shopping for edible oils, select those that enhance the flavor of your foods and support your overall health. Healthier oils are usually more expensive, but they are rich in nutrients that will nourish your body and decrease your risk of developing certain diseases.

Canola oil

Canola Oil Canola oil comes from the

seeds of the canola plant. Once harvested, canola seeds are crushed and the oil contained within the seed is extracted. The average canola seed is 45% oil.

Coconut oil

Coconut oil, a cooking oil, with medical and industrial applications as well. Extracted from the kernel or meat of the fruit of the coconut palm. Common in the tropics, and unusual in composition, with medium chain fatty acidsdominan

Coconut oil, or copra oil, is an edible oilextracted from the kernel or meat of maturecoconuts harvested from the coconut palm (Cocos nucifera). It has various applications. Because of its high saturated fatcontent, it is slow to oxidize and, thus, resistant to rancidification, lasting up to six months at 24 °C (75 °F) without spoilin

Corn oil

Corn oil, one of the principal oils sold as salad and cooking oil

Corn oil (maize oil) is oilextracted from the germ of corn (maize). Its main use is in cooking, where its high smoke point makes refined corn oil a valuable frying oil. It is also a key ingredient in somemargarines.

Cottonseed oil

Cottonseed oil, used as a salad and cooking oil, both domestically and industriallCottonseed oil is a cooking oil extracted from the seeds of cotton plants of various species, mainly Gossypium hirsutum andGossypium herbaceum, that are grown for cotton fiber, animal feed, and oil.[1]

Cotton seed has a similar structure to other oilseeds such as sunflower seed, having an oil-bearing kernel surrounded by a hard outer hull; in processing, the oil is extracted from the kernel. Cottonseed oil is used for salad oil, mayonnaise, salad dressing, and similar products because of its flavor stability.

Linseed oil

Linseed oil, also known as flaxseed oil, is a colourless to yellowish oil obtained from the dried, ripened seeds of the flax plant (Linum usitatissimum). The oil is obtained by pressing, sometimes followed bysolvent extraction. Linseed oil is a drying oil, meaning it canpolymerize into a solid form. Due to its polymer-forming properties, linseed oil can be used on its own or blended with combinations of other oils, resins or solvents as an impregnator, drying oil finish orvarnish in wood finishing, as a pigment binder in oil paints, as aplasticizer and hardener in putty, and in the manufacture of linoleum. 

Olive oil

Olive oil, used in cooking, cosmetics, soaps, and as a fuel for traditional oil lamps.

Olive oil is a fat obtained from the olive (the fruit ofOlea europaea; familyOleaceae), a traditional tree crop of theMediterranean Basin. The oil is produced by pressing whole olives and is commonly used incooking, cosmetics,pharmaceuticals, andsoaps, and as a fuel for traditional oil lamps. Olive oil is used throughout the world and is often associated withMediterranean countries.

Palm oil

Palm oil, the most widely produced tropical oil.[10] Popular in West African and Brazilian cuisine.[11] Also used to make biofuel.

Palm oil (also known asdendê oil, from Portuguese) is an edible vegetable oilderived from the mesocarp(reddish pulp) of the fruit of theoil palms, primarily the African oil palm Elaeis guineensis,[1]and to a lesser extent from the American oil palm Elaeis oleifera and the maripa palmAttalea maripa

Peanut oil

Peanut oil (Ground nut oil), a clear oil with some applications as asalad dressing, and, due to its high smoke point, especially used for frying.

Peanut oil, also known asgroundnut oil or arachis oil, is a mild-tasting vegetable oilderived from peanuts. The oil is available with a strong peanut flavor and aroma, analogous to sesame oil

Rapeseed oil

Rapeseed oil, including Canola oil, one of the most widely used cooking oils.

Rapeseed (Brassica napus), also known as rape,[1] oilseed rape,[1] rapa, rappi, rapaseed(and, in the case of one particular group of cultivars,canola), is a bright-yellow flowering member of the familyBrassicaceae (mustard or cabbage family), consumed inChina (油菜 : Mandarin Pinyinyóucài; Cantonese:yau choy) and Southern Africa as a vegetable

Safflower oil

Safflower oil, until the 1960s used in the paint industry, now mostly as a cooking oil.

Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) is a highly branched, herbaceous, thistle-like annual plant. It is commercially cultivated forvegetable oil extracted from the seeds. Plants are 30 to 150 cm (12 to 59 in) tall with globular flower heads havingyellow, orange, or red flowers. Each branch will usually have from one to five flower heads containing 15 to 20 seeds per head. Safflower is native to arid environments having seasonal rain. It grows a deeptaproot which enables it to thrive in such environments.

Sesame oil

Sesame oil, cold pressed as light cooking oil, hot pressed for a darker and stronger flavor.

Sesame oil is an ediblevegetable oil derived from sesame seeds. Besides being used as acooking oil in South India, it is often used as a flavor enhancer in Korean,Chinese, Japanese,Middle Eastern, andSoutheast Asian cuisine. It has a distinctive nutty aroma and taste

Soybean oil

Soybean oil, produced as a byproduct of processing soy meal.

To produce soybean oil, the soybeans are cracked, adjusted for moisture content, heated to between 60 and 88 °C (140–190 °F), rolled into flakes, and solvent-extracted with hexanes. The oil is then refined, blended for different applications, and sometimeshydrogenated. Soybean oils, both liquid and partially hydrogenated are sold as "vegetable oil," or are ingredients in a wide variety of processed foods. Most of the remaining residue (soybean meal) is used as animal feed

Sunflower oil

Sunflower oil, a common cooking oil, also used to makebiodiesel.

Sunflower oil is the non-volatile oil compressed from sunflower(Helianthus annuus) seeds. Sunflower oil is commonly used in food as a frying oil, and incosmetic formulations as an emollient.