Salad oil is just a general term. It is refined edible oil refined from crude oil and can be eaten raw. It is named because it is especially suitable for western-style "salad" cold dishes. Salad oil is light yellow, clear and transparent, odorless, good in taste, and does not bubble or smoke when used in cooking.

At present, there are soybean salad oil, rapeseed salad oil, sunflower seed salad oil and rice bran salad oil on the market.