List of vegetable oils

Some of the many other uses include wood finishing, oil painting, and skin care.

The term "vegetable oil" can be narrowly defined as referring only to substances that are liquid at room temperature,[2] or broadly defined without regard to a substance's state (liquid or solid) at a given temperature.

[3] While a large majority of the entries in this list fit the narrower of these definitions, some do not qualify as vegetable oils according to all understandings of the term.

The solution may be separated from the plant material and concentrated, giving an extracted or leached oil.

Most, but not all vegetable oils are extracted from the fruits or seeds of plants.

[note 1][35] The seeds of many if not most members of the citrus family yield usable oils.

[35][36][37][38] Members of the Cucurbitaceae include gourds, melons, pumpkins, and squashes.

[45] A number of oils are used as food supplements (or "nutraceuticals"), for their nutrient content or purported medicinal effect.

These oils are extracted from plants that are cultivated solely for producing oil-based biofuel.

Hazelnuts from the Common Hazel , used to make Hazelnut oil
The fruit of the sea-buckthorn
Watermelon seed oil, extracted from the seeds of Citrullus vulgaris , is used in cooking in West Africa .
Carob seed pods, used to make carob pod oil
Coriander seeds are the source of an edible pressed oil, Coriander seed oil .
Poppy seeds, used to make poppyseed oil
Virgin pracaxi oil
Shea nuts, from which shea butter is pressed
A flask of biodiesel
Sunflower kernels
Jojoba fruit
The fruit of the amur cork tree
Castor beans are the source of castor oil .
Astrocaryum vulgare (Tucumã) oil