Oils" is a collective term for more or less viscous, generally organic-chemical liquids. Depending on their chemical composition, a distinction may be drawn between fatty, essential, mineral and silicone oils. Fatty oils include liquid, semisolid and solid products of vegetable and animal origin. They are also known as sweet oils.
Mustard oil is the third largest edible oil produced in the world after Soy oil and Palm oil. At a production level of 13-14 million tons, it accounts for about 12% of the total World's edible oil production. It refers to two different types of oil that are made from Mustard Seeds. These are
- Fatty Vegetable oil resulting from pressing the seeds
- Essential oil resulting from grinding the seeds, mixing them with water and extracting the resulting volatile oil by distillation.
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Mustard oil, which is known for its pungency, strong flavor & smell, is traditionally the most preferred oil for various culinary & medicinal usages. The oil comprises mostly of the fatty acids, oleic acid, linoleic acid and erucic acid. At 5%, mustard seed oil has the lowest saturated fat content of the edible oils.