Flashcards: Vegetable oils

Vegetable oils are triglycerides extracted from plants.

Macassar oil is a compounded oil used primarily by men in Victorian and Edwardian times as a hair conditioner to groom and style the hair.

Pine nut oil, also called pine seed oil or cedar nut oil, is a vegetable oil, extracted from the edible seeds of several species of pine.

Sesame oil is an edible vegetable oil derived from sesame seeds.

Tung oil or China wood oil is a drying oil obtained by pressing the seed from the nut of the tung tree (Vernicia fordii).

Soybean oil is a vegetable oil extracted from the seeds of the soybean (Glycine max).

Hemp oil or hempseed oil is obtained by pressing hemp seeds.

Grape seed oil (also called grapeseed oil or grape oil) is pressed from the seeds of grapes, and is thus an abundant by-product of winemaking.

Canola is a cultivar of rapeseed bred to be low in erucic acid.

Cocoa butter, also called theobroma oil, is a pale-yellow, edible vegetable fat extracted from the cocoa bean.

Coconut oil, or copra oil, is an edible oil extracted from the kernel or meat of mature coconuts harvested from the coconut palm (Cocos nucifera).

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).

Cottonseed oil is a cooking oil extracted from the seeds of cotton plants of various species, mainly Gossypium hirsutum and Gossypium herbaceum, that are grown for cotton fiber, animal feed, and oil.

Palm kernel oil is an edible plant oil derived from the kernel of the oil palm Elaeis guineensis.

Tall oil, also called "liquid rosin" or tallol, is a viscous yellow-black odorous liquid obtained as a by-product of the Kraft process of wood pulp manufacture when pulping mainly coniferous trees.

Plant oils or vegetable oils are oils derived from plant sources, as opposed to animal fats or petroleum.

Canolol is a phenolic compound found in crude canola oil.

Vernolic acid (leukotoxin) is an organic compound and a fatty acid.

Cohune oil is pressed from the seeds of the cohune palm, which is native to Central and South America.