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Crisco Oil, Canola
Cooking & Baking
📊 NOVA 2🌱 Vegan🌾 Gluten-Free🥛 Dairy-Free

Crisco Oil, Canola

Crisco
40 foz
Available at Foodtown
130
Calories
0g
Protein
0mg
Sodium
2
Ingredients

What You Should Know

Crisco Pure Canola Oil arrives on grocery shelves as a familiar, no-nonsense bottle in the oils & vinegars aisle, shelved beside vegetable oils, olive oil, cooking sprays and baking shortenings. The 40 foz size reads like a pantry staple for households that cook frequently — value-minded cooks, families preparing weeknight dinners, and home bakers who buy in bulk. It fits shopping trips aimed at meal prep, frying for game-day snacks, or stocking up for holiday baking when large quantities of neutral oil are needed. The Crisco name evokes long-standing American kitchen traditions and dependable, everyday cooking — marketed to home cooks who value convenience and predictable performance rather than culinary trendiness. Label callouts emphasize practical health halos like "cholesterol-free," kosher and gluten-free certification and a "light texture" and "neutral flavor," but there is no organic or non-GMO claim on the front. In plain processing terms, this is an extracted and refined culinary oil meant for cooking and frying rather than a raw produce item. Sensory details are straightforward: a pale-yellow liquid with a light, slippery mouthfeel, minimal aroma, and a neutral taste that lets other ingredients dominate; it pours from a wide plastic bottle with a screw or flip-top spout and is commonly transferred to a measuring cup, drizzle bottle, or heated directly in a skillet. Rituals around it include preheating a pan for sautéing, battering and deep-frying family favorites, and whisking into vinaigrettes — it’s the quiet functional backbone in a wide range of American home-cooking scenarios.

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size: 1 tbsp
Servings per Container: 80
Calories130
% Daily Value*
Total Fat14g18%
Saturated Fat1g5%
Sodium0mg0%
Total Carbohydrate0g0%
Protein0g
* The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a serving of food contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.

Ingredients

Canola, Oil..

Flagged Ingredients:

  • canola - Seed oil high in omega-6 fatty acids
No Seed Oil

Dietary Labels

This product is vegan, is gluten-free, and is not organic.

Ultra-Processing Assessment

NOVA Score:2 / 4

Processed Ingredients

Why this score?

This product is a processed culinary ingredient (refined edible oil) made from a single extracted oil with no added industrial additives, which places it in NOVA group 2.

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Common Questions about Crisco Oil, Canola

Crisco Canola Oil can be a healthy choice depending on what you're comparing it to! It’s low in saturated fat and high in monounsaturated fats, which are considered heart-healthy. Just remember, moderation is key, as with any oil.

Perfect For

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