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Is Olive oil a vegetable oil?
Even though olives are biologically a fruit, the oil is called a vegetable oil. The use of 'vegetable' to describe oils is primarily to communicate to the buyer that there are no animal products in...
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Is olive oil mineral oil?
No, olive oil is a vegetable oil; it is extracted from olives. Mineral oil is a distillate of petroleum; it is safe for human consumption, but only in small amounts.
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Which oil is healthier to fry in olive oil or canola oil?
This oil originated in Canada and has became known as the Canadian oil, or canola. Canola oil is second only to flaxseed oil as the highest vegetable source of the essential omega-3 fatty acids. Like...
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Why is hydrogenated olive oil solid but cis-unsaturated olive oil a liquid?
The double bond in the cis-unsaturated olive oil is bent in the center and doesn't pack well into a crystal lattice necessary to make it a solid, so it turns out to be liquid at room temperature....
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Is light olive oil better than olive oil?
Light olive oil IS olive oil. Different varieties and types of olive oil are used for different things, so one cannot say that a certain olive oil is better than another.