Cooking oils : A review

Abstract

India represents unique biodiversity profile and peoples of different region possess various eating habits including cooking oils, groundnut, coconut, mustard, sesame, safflower, linseed, castor oil are major traditionally used oils in India  along with soya bean, rice bran, cottonseeds, sunflower and palm oil. The diversified culture of India offers different preference of cooking oil in different regions depending upon the availability of oils in that particular region, like; South Indian and people from west region prefer groundnut oil while in East and Northern India mustard and rapeseed oils are used commonly. Similarly, few regions in South India prefer coconut and sesame oils while some places of Northern India witnessed utilization of vanasapati oil.