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  2. Cooking oil - Wikipedia

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    Cooking oil (also known as edible oil) is a plant or animal liquid fat used in frying, baking, and other types of cooking. Oil allows higher cooking temperatures than water, making cooking faster and more flavorful, while likewise distributing heat, reducing burning and uneven cooking. It sometimes imparts its own flavor.

  3. List of vegetable oils - Wikipedia

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    Considered promising as a food or fuel oil. [89] Grape seed oil, a cooking and salad oil, also sprayed on raisins to help them retain their flavor. [90] Hemp oil, a high quality food oil [91] also used to make paints, varnishes, resins and soft soaps. [92] Kapok seed oil, from the seeds of Ceiba pentandra, used as an edible oil, and in soap ...

  4. Types of plant oils - Wikipedia

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    A press developed at MIT's D-Lab, for example, is capable of exerting 800–1,000psi to extract peanut oil. [2] Industrial machines for extracting oil mechanically are call expellers. Many expellers add heat and pressure, in order to increase the amount of oil extracted. If the temperature does not exceed 120 °F, the oil can be called "cold ...

  5. Vegetable oil - Wikipedia

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    One of the most widely used cooking oils, also used as fuel. Canola is a variety of rapeseed. Sunflower seed: 9.91: A common cooking oil, also used to make biodiesel Peanut: 4.82: Mild-flavored cooking oil Cottonseed: 4.99: A major food oil, often used in industrial food processing Palm kernel: 4.85: From the seed of the African palm tree ...

  6. Grease (lubricant) - Wikipedia

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    H1 lubricants are food-grade lubricants used in food-processing environments where there is the possibility of incidental food contact. H2 lubricants are industrial lubricants used on equipment and machine parts in locations with no possibility of contact. H3 lubricants are food-grade lubricants, typically edible oils, used to prevent rust on ...

  7. Oil - Wikipedia

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    Several edible vegetable and animal oils, and also fats, are used for various purposes in cooking and food preparation. In particular, many foods are fried in oil much hotter than boiling water. Oils are also used for flavoring and for modifying the texture of foods (e.g. stir fry). Cooking oils are derived either from animal fat, as butter ...

  8. Edible oil refining - Wikipedia

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    Edible oil refining is a set of processes or treatments necessary to turn vegetable raw oil into edible oil.. Raw vegetable oil, obtained from seeds by pressing, solvent extraction, contains free fatty acids and other components such as phospholipids, waxes, peroxides, aldehydes, and ketones, which contribute to undesirable flavor, odor, and appearance; [1] for these reasons, all the oil has ...

  9. Oleic acid - Wikipedia

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    Safflower and olive oil have one of the highest levels of oleic acid among dietary fats. Oleic acid is used as a component in many foods, in the form of its triglycerides. It is a component of the normal human diet, being a part of animal fats and vegetable oils. [3] Oleic acid as its sodium salt is a major component of soap as an emulsifying ...