The process and the seeds are different
Olive oil: the name Olive Oil is reserved for edible oils 100% made of olive fruit only. The olive oil sold in France is 95% EXTRA VIRGIN olive oil, meaning an oil from the first cold pressing (in temperatures between 15 and 27 degrees maximum) by mechanical processes that preserve the nutrients of the fruit and meet precise physical and chemical criteria.
Vegetable Oils Assets
All the vegetable and nut oils have different uses, flavors, textures. Oliviers & Co produces the best olive oils in the world from the highest quality olives grown in the Mediterranean. We have found that vegetable oil, like olive oil, offers the best option for cooking as well as many other health benefits, and that the properties of each are complementary.
Here is a non-exhaustive list of other vegetable and nut oils that can be compared to or added to extra virgin olive oil for a diversified and healthy cooking:
- Olive oil - used in cooking, for frying or sauteing, finisishing with vinaigrette
- Coconut oil - extracted from the kernel or meat of the coconut fruit
- Corn oil - one of the most common oils sold in foods
- Cottonseed oil - used as a salad and cooking oil, both domestically and industrially
- Flaxseed oil - the queen of Omega 3s, with a fairly strong bitter taste.
- Palm oil - the most widely produced tropical oil and also used to make biofuels
- Peanut oil - has a high smoke point and is mainly used for frying
- Rapeseed oil - one of the most commonly used cooking oils
- Safflower oil - until the 1960s used in the paint industry, now used as a cooking oil
- Sesame oil - cold pressed and good as a light cooking oil, hot pressed for a darker, stronger flavor
- Soybean oil - produced as a by-product of soybean processing
- Sunflower oil - also a common cooking oil and used as biodiesel
- Beech oil - from the nuts of Fagus sylvatica, can be used for salads and cooking
- Brazil nut oil - is a good possible substitute for olive oil because of its sweet and pleasant flavor
- Cashew nut oil - also comparable to olive oil
- Hazelnut oil - mainly used for its flavor in cooking
- Macadamia oil - has a slight nutty flavor and a high smoke point for frying
- Pistachio oil - a strong flavored oil with a very distinctive green color
- Pumpkin seed oil - your prostate ally, rich in Omega 6
- Walnut oil - also used for its specific flavor, and rich in Omega 3
Sources :
https://www.biolineaires.com/huiles_bio_extraction_reglementation_et_etiquetage/
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