What is soybean oil traditionally called in the US? I've never actually seen "soybean oil" myself (though it surely exists). Is this the same as "vegetable oil"?
Yeah, more just surprised that Soybean specifically so ubiquitous. Felt like last time I looked it was a range of weird oil name (corn oil, sunflower oil, canola oil, etc.) Just astonishing how the huge CPG conglomerates have engineered such highly processed food all in the name of price efficiency. I love brands like Primal Kitchen and how many others like it gain popularity as they're one of the few brands whose ingredients are just normal and easily identifiable.
I think it's revelatory that the supply side finds some byproduct (hey we have all these seeds from cotton, can we do anything with them) and then they force a product from it after the fact, and now we are all worse for it. The market is fake.
Ran into that problem yesterday at the grocery store. I wanted to buy horseradish sauce but every single product offered had soybean oil as a primary ingredient, often the first ingredient. Thankfully horseradish root can still be obtained for making sauce at home.
not just every sauce. But salad dressings, marinades, processed crackers/cookies, cereals, granola, most bread, most tortilla shell (soft and hard).
Hell - most "dried fruit" aside from raisins, like blueberries, dried cranberries, and so forth, are all swimming in it. Eating those "healthy" kale chips, beet chips, coconut chips? Check how much added sugar and how much omega6 ridden oils they use
Sardines are packed in soybean oil.
If it's not soybean oils, then it's cottonseed, grapseseed, canola, corn oil, or any other number of oils that we have as larger industrial byproducts.
I expect that most of the soybean oil consumed in the US is consumed as an ingredient in something else—salad dressing, sauces, snacks, etc.—rather than a bottle of "soybean oil" (usually "Vegetable Oil") in their pantry.
"Vegetable oil" can be soybean oil but it can also be other things. And I do often see "soybean oil", or something like "vegetable oil (soy and/or palm and/or canola)" in a list of ingredients.
Usually. Vegetable oil almost always contains soy oil, but it can be a medley of soy and other oils, or other oils entirely. It’s safe to assume though that any bottle of vegetable oil you see is all or mostly soy.
Is it supposed to be a big thing in Asian grocery stores? If you walk into a grocery store in China it will quickly become apparent that you're expected to do your cooking with corn oil.
In the UK, something marked "vegetable oil" is basically going to be rapeseed (canola), but sometimes sunflower seed oil if it's come from Europe.
If it is marked "pure vegetable oil" it essentially always 100% rapeseed.
Rapeseed grows very easily here, and we don't grow soybeans -- they barely grow at all here.
Soya is a notifiable allergen in the UK -- it must be labelled as such when it's in an unrefined form. And even if it's refined, the law still says the origins of oils have to be declared.
The combination of these two things (cost and allergens) means that if an oil has soya on it, you'll know from the front label. Indeed, if it's anything other than rapeseed it'll probably be marketed that way.
