Cooking oil is purified fat from vegetables of animals. It is liquid at room temperature and is widely used for frying, deep frying, stir frying, baking, grilling and more. There are many different types of cooking oil available, with the most common being
olive oil, sunflower oil, soybean oil, peanut oil, corn oil, canola oil, safflower oil and sesame oil.
Cooking oil is available worldwide in bottles and plastic or metallic containers.