salad oil

noun

Any oil used in or as a salad dressing.

Meanings

nounsalad oil (countable and uncountable, plural salad oils)

plural salad oils

  1. countableuncountableAny oil used in or as a salad dressing.
  2. countableuncountableAn edible vegetable oil other than olive oil, as corn oil or sesame oil
  3. UScountableuncountableindustrialbiochemistryAn edible vegetable oil that is winterized so that it remains liquid at cold temperatures. It is characterized by its light flavor, color, and mouthfeel, which make it ideal for industrial food applications such as the production of mayonnaise. (after 1962, usually): partially hydrogenated refined, bleached, and deodorized (RBD) soybean oil for industrial food manufacturing.

    Generally, palm oil and its more liquid fraction, palm olein, do not make good salad oils on their own due to high cloud point values.

    2015 September 1, Oi-Ming Lai, Chin-Ping Tan, Casimir C. Akoh, Palm Oil: Production, Processing, Characterization, and Uses, Champaign: Elsevier, →ISBN, page 535
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    An entrepreneur named Anthony DeAngelis rented petroleum tanks in New Jersey and filled them with seawater, with the exception of just one smaller tank, nested inside a larger tank, which he filled with salad oil.

    2006 May 5, Thomas W. Golden, Steven L. Skalak, Mona M. Clayton, Jessica S. Pill, A Guide to Forensic Accounting Investigation, Hoboken, N.J: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 221

Translations

Chinese Mandarin 沙拉油
  • 沙拉油 (shālāyóu)Translations
Dutch slaolie
  • slaolieTranslations
German Salatöl
  • SalatölTranslations
Polish olej do sałatek
  • olej do sałatekTranslations
Cite this entry
APA

salad oil. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/salad%20oil

MLA

“salad oil.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/salad%20oil. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “salad oil,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/salad%20oil.

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