What Is Oil?
Cooking oil is plant, animal, or synthetic liquid fat used in frying, baking, and other types of cooking. It is also used in food preparation and flavoring not involving heat, such as salad dressings and bread dips, and may be called edible oil.
Cooking oil is typically a liquid at room temperature, although some oils that contain saturated fat, such as coconut oil, palm oil and palm kernel oil are solid.
There are a wide variety of cooking oils from plant sources such as olive oil, palm oil, soybean oil, canola oil (rapeseed oil), corn oil, peanut oil and other vegetable oils, as well as animal-based oils like butter and lard.
Oil can be flavored with aromatic foodstuffs such as herbs, chillies or garlic. Cooking spray is an aerosol of cooking oil.
The general definition of oil includes classes of chemical compounds that may be otherwise unrelated in structure, properties, and uses. Oils may be animal, vegetable, or petrochemical in origin, and may be volatile or non-volatile. They are used for food (e.g., olive oil), fuel (e.g., heating oil), medical purposes (e.g., mineral oil), lubrication (e.g. motor oil), and the manufacture of many types of paints, plastics, and other materials. Specially prepared oils are used in some religious ceremonies and rituals as purifying agents.
What Is Cooking Oil Made Of?
Vegetable oil is oil that is extracted from various types of fruits, seeds, grains, and nuts (all considered vegetables for this purpose). The most popular oils are made from canola, coconut, corn, cottonseed, olive, palm, palm-kernel, peanut, safflower, soybean, and sunflower.
What Are The Benefits Of Cooking Oils?
Cooking is the process of making food into an edible form by adding ingredients and applying heat. Eating cooked food allows us to digest more easily than eating raw food. It kills the germs attached to the food items and makes it fit for eating. Cooking increases the taste of food.
Oil Prices In Ghana:
GH₵ 43.00
Sunflower Oil 1L
GH₵ 60.00
Alimo Sunflower Oil (900ml)
GH₵ 60.00
1 Liter 100% Pure Sunflower Oil
GH₵ 43.00
Vester Soyabean Cooking Oil
GH₵ 30.00
Rice Bran Oil
GH₵ 52.00
Frytol Cooking Oil (0.9L)
GH₵ 320.00
Pure Wesson Canola Oil 4.73L (1.25 GAL)
GH₵ 85.00
Carlini Pure Vegetable and Canola Oil
GH₵ 300.00
Olive Pomace Oil