Pressed and rendered fats. Nearly pure lipid, so what distinguishes them is fatty-acid profile and, in unrefined oils, the minor polyphenol fraction.
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Persea americana
Oil pressed from the flesh rather than the seed of the avocado, dominated by monounsaturated fat and stable at high cooking…
Cocos nucifera
Fat extracted from coconut flesh, solid below about 24 degrees Celsius and dominated by saturated fatty acids, principally lauric…
Olea europaea
Oil pressed mechanically from olives without heat or solvents, retaining the phenolic fraction that refining removes. Phenolic…
Linum usitatissimum
Cold-pressed oil from flaxseed and the most concentrated common dietary source of the plant omega-3 ALA. Pressing leaves the…
Sesamum indicum
Oil pressed from sesame seeds, sold either as a light-coloured neutral cooking oil or as the dark, strongly flavoured oil pressed…