Sunflower seed oil, as its name implies, is made from sunflower seeds. The unsaturated fatty acids of sunflower seed oil are much higher than peanut oil. Peanut oil, as its name implies, is extracted from peanuts, and the yolk is transparent. Moreover, after heating, it has a strong peanut fragrance, better quality and rich and diverse nutrients.
The dishes fried with sunflower seed oil are rich in flavor and look greasy in color, which gives people the feeling that they will have a certain impact on appetite than the oil taught, and are not suitable for frying things. Peanut oil is very fragrant in cooking, but the color is basically not greasy, and it tastes lighter, which is more suitable for cooking and making soup.
Sunflower seed oil is one of the traditional edible vegetable oils in China, and its price is relatively low compared with other vegetable oils. Peanut oil belongs to the middle and superior category in vegetable oil, and its price is relatively expensive.
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Vegetable oil is made from oil-rich plant seeds by washing, removing impurities, shelling, crushing, softening, rolling, extrusion and puffing, then extracting crude oil by mechanical pressing or solvent leaching, and then refining.
The quality grade of vegetable oil is determined according to the variety and quality of oil in China and the corresponding processing technology. According to the quality standard system of edible vegetable oil in China, the general edible vegetable oil (except olive oil and special oil) on the market can be divided into four grades: grade one, grade two, grade three and grade four.
For example, soybean oil, rapeseed oil, cottonseed oil, rice bran oil, corn oil, sunflower seed oil, extracted peanut oil and extracted tea seed oil are divided into one to four grades, while pressed peanut oil, pressed tea seed oil and sesame oil are only divided into one or two grades.