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  2. Vegetable oil - Wikipedia

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    Soybean oil, grape seed oil, and cocoa butter are examples of seed oils, or fats from seeds. Olive oil, palm oil, and rice bran oil are examples of fats from other parts of plants. In common usage, vegetable oil may refer exclusively to vegetable fats which are liquid at room temperature. [2] [3] Vegetable oils are usually edible.

  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. 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]

  5. Hemp oil - Wikipedia

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    Hemp oil (hemp seed oil) is oil obtained by pressing hemp seeds. Cold pressed, unrefined hemp oil is dark to clear light green in color, with a nutty flavor. The darker the color, the grassier the flavour. It should not be confused with hash oil, a tetrahydrocannabinol-containing oil made from the Cannabis flower.

  6. 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 ...

  7. Canola Oil vs. Vegetable Oil: Which is Healthier?

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    The United States is the second largest producer of soybean oil, a common ingredient in vegetable oil, according to a report published in 2020 by Research and Markets.

  8. Seed oil misinformation - Wikipedia

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    Saladino made several claims about the health effects of vegetable fats. [1] The theme of the misinformation is that seed oils are the root cause of most diseases of affluence, including heart disease, [2] cancer, [3] diabetes, [4] and liver spots. [5] These claims are not based on evidence, [6] but have nevertheless become popular on the ...

  9. Cannabis sativa - Wikipedia

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    Cannabis sativa is an annual herbaceous flowering plant. ... Cannabis sativa seeds are chiefly used to make hempseed oil which can be used for cooking, lamps ...