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  2. List of vegetable oils - Wikipedia

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    Tobacco seed oil, from the seeds of Nicotiana tabacum and other Nicotiana species. Edible if purified. [144] Tomato seed oil is a potentially valuable by-product, as a cooking oil, from the waste seeds generated from processing tomatoes. [145] Wheat germ oil, used nutritionally and in cosmetic preparations, high in vitamin E and octacosanol. [146]

  3. Types of plant oils - Wikipedia

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    Oil seeds are fed into the housing, where the screws mash the seeds, and create pressure which forces the oil out through small holes in the side of the press. The remaining solids, called seed cake, are either discarded or used for other purposes. [1] Oil presses can be either manual or powered.

  4. Camellia oleifera - Wikipedia

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    The seeds of Camellia oleifera can be pressed to yield tea seed oil, a sweetish seasoning and cooking oil. In tea seed oil, oleic acid, a monounsaturated fatty acid comprises ~80% of the total fatty acid content - the oil is similar in composition to olive oil. After the tea seed oil is extracted, the seed itself still serves a purpose.

  5. Rapeseed - Wikipedia

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    Rapeseed (Brassica napus subsp. napus), also known as rape and oilseed rape, is a bright-yellow flowering member of the family Brassicaceae (mustard or cabbage family), cultivated mainly for its oil-rich seed, which naturally contains appreciable amounts of mildly toxic erucic acid. [2]

  6. Flax - Wikipedia

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    Flax seeds produce a vegetable oil known as flax seed oil or linseed oil, which is one of the oldest commercial oils. It is an edible oil obtained by expeller pressing and sometimes followed by solvent extraction. Solvent-processed flax seed oil has been used for many centuries as a drying oil in painting and varnishing. [23]

  7. Tea seed oil - Wikipedia

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    The oil is known as 'camellia oil', 'tea seed oil', or 'camellia seed oil'. [2] As of 2016 4,000,000 hectares (9,900,000 acres) of oleifera forest centered on the Yangtze river basin in Hunan , Jiangxi , and Guangxi produces 0.26 million tons of oil.

  8. The negative seed oil hype is all wrong, experts say — the ...

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    Grapeseed oil is among the targets of influencers who claim seed oils are bad for your health. Ivan Bajic “The current U.S. intake of oils is in the range recommended for heart health ...

  9. Vegetable oil - Wikipedia

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    The most widely produced tropical oil, also used to make biofuel: Soybean: 41.28: One of the most widely consumed cooking oils Rapeseed: 18.24: 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 ...