Vegetable oil

Vegetable oil 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 oils are pressed or extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits.

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 oil appears in 10,526 of the 40,000 products on this site (26%).

Products containing vegetable oil

Showing the 60 most popular of 10,526.

How the NOVA classification works