C1 Plant oils

PLANT OILS

Extracting vegetable oil

• Vegetable oils can be extracted from seeds, nuts and fruits by pressing or by distillation.
• Vegetable oils provide nutrients and a lot of energy. They are important foods and can be used to make biofuels.
• Unsaturated oils contain carbon-carbon double bonds (C=C) and so they decolourise bromine water.

Cooking with vegetable oils

• Vegetable oils are useful in cooking because of their high boiling points. 
• Cooking in oil increases the energy content of foods and changes the flavour, colour and texture of…