Vegetable fat

Vegetable fat is not a marker of ultra-processing. It is one of the markers Open Food Facts uses to classify a food as processed (NOVA group 3).

What it is and why it counts

Vegetable fats are oils that are solid at room temperature, such as palm or coconut fat.

Culinary ingredients

These are group 2 ingredients, the kind a cook adds to whole foods. On their own they make a food processed (group 3), not ultra-processed.

Where it turns up

Vegetable fat appears in 2,015 of the 40,000 products on this site (5%).

Products containing vegetable fat

Showing the 60 most popular of 2,015.

How the NOVA classification works