The Oils
Food Service Industry Professionals: Whether you’re baking, frying or just looking to make your recipes a little healthier, there’s a trait-enhanced soybean oil made for you.
Soybean Oils with Reduced or No Trans Fats1
Standard Soybean Oil2
Soybean oil pressed from standard soybeans and processed traditionally. Commonly marketed as “vegetable oil”
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| Virtually all cooking oil suppliers have a brand of soybean (vegetable) oil | Any distributor |
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High Oleic Soybean Oil
Oil processed from soybeans bred to have increased levels of oleic fatty acid (approx. 75 percent oleic acid and less than 3 percent linolenic).
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Plenish™ Developed by Pioneer Hi-Bred |
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Low Linolenic Soybean Oil2
Oil processed from soybeans bred to have less than 3% linolenic acid. Less linolenic acid results in oil that is stable without partial hydrogenation.
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Bunge, utilizing Pioneer low-linolenic soybeans Cargill, utilizing Vistive seeds from Monsanto. Ventura Foods, LLC- Mel-Fry Free Soy |
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Expeller Pressed 1 Percent Low Linolenic Soybean Oil2
Soybean oil from 1% linolenic soybeans processed by expeller pressing and physical refinement rather than chemical extraction. The combination of 1% linolenic soybeans and expeller pressing leads to an extremely stable oil without any hydrogenation.
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Expeller Pressed and Physically Refined Soybean Oil
Soybean oil from standard soybeans processed by expeller pressing and physical refinement rather than chemical extraction. Expeller pressing retains naturally occurring antioxidants that provide the oil’s stability without any hydrogenation.
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Endura Products LLC – Endura® (foodservice) and Nexsoy® (ingredient) |
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Chemically Interesterified Soybean Oil
Blend of fully- and non-hydrogenated soybean oils that performs like partially hydrogenated soybean oil but with lower levels of trans fatty acids. Processed with a chemical catalyst.
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Bunge Cargill Ventura Foods, LLC |
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Enzymatically Interesterified Soybean Oil
Blend of fully- and non-hydrogenated soybean oils that performs like partially hydrogenated soybean oil but with lower levels of trans fatty acids1. Processed with an enzymatic catalyst.
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| ADM – NovaLipid™ |
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1 Per serving
2 Standard soybean oil contains about 7 percent linolenic acid



