List of Seed Oils: What Counts, Is Vegetable Oil a Seed Oil & Easy Swaps
Chapters
- The Short Answer
- What Makes a Seed Oil
- The Full List
- Is Vegetable Oil a Seed Oil?
- How They're Made
- What the Evidence Says
- Where They Hide
- Reading the Label
- Are Seed Oils Kosher?
- Swaps from the Catalog
- Your Turn
Audio from the Clean Food Score video of the same name; the video shows the labels and scores on screen.
There are eight common seed oils, and plain vegetable oil almost always counts too. We cover the full list, how seed oils are pressed, extracted and refined, what the evidence does and doesn't show, where they hide, the "and/or" label trick, kosher questions and simple swaps.
Full guide and the products we checked
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Chapters
0:00 The Short Answer
0:42 What Makes a Seed Oil
1:26 The Full List
2:06 Is Vegetable Oil a Seed Oil?
2:38 How They're Made
3:35 What the Evidence Says
4:44 Where They Hide
5:30 Reading the Label
6:15 Are Seed Oils Kosher?
6:56 Swaps from the Catalog
7:42 Your Turn
Product scores are Clean Food Score's 0–100 label scores as shown on cleanfoodscore.com on 2026-10-16. Recipes change, so read the package you buy. We read labels; this is not medical advice.
Music
"Fresh Air" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Reminiscing" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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"Friday Morning" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Sound effects: Kenney (kenney.nl), CC0.
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