Culinary Oils

I think it's a big leap from what's used in recipes to "most commonly used". Recipes for instance almost never mention sunflower oil, but it's still used a lot. Also grapeseed oil is the most common neutral oil in some countries. You could say "types of oil most commonly used in recipes" rather than "in cooking" and you'd be more correct.

I cook a lot of Asian dishes, so I keep sesame oil around. I don't even like the stuff! :)

Sesame oil should not be on the list. It is not used for cooking. It is used for flavor.

All except coconut oil. The oil I use most for cooking is rice bran oil.

I was surprised there was no soy oil. I never use it, but I know lots of people who do. Perhaps it is more often used blended nowadays and labeled as vegetable oil which didn't count on this quiz. If the quiz was about oils most used in commercial food, then I'm sure soy, palm, and corn oils would top the list.

Based on the results, the viewership of this quiz is pretty Western-centric.

Ghee blongs to this list, since most of the south asian recipes is cooked with ghee.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/263933/production-of-vegetable-oils-worldwide-since-2000/

Highest worldwide production is palm oil, soybean, rapeseed, sunflower seed then drops by half volume to palm kernel, peanut etc. So those recipes don’t reflect worldwide usage, bet palm, soybean and sunflower get used in food processing a lot.

Due to the exclusion of vegetable oil, that may be why sunflower oil is missing here - a low quality oil you use if you don't have/want to use one of the others. Many recipes wouldn't need to specify sunflower specifically, they just say vegetable and let the reader decide.

I get that you have to use a source for a quiz, but this one is not representative at all to what really is used in cooking. Most evidently by the lack of sunflower oil, which I would think would be the most or second most used oil in cooking.

Changing the description to "what is used in recipes" makes it a bit less incorrect. But it is still only ingredients listed as recipes to that specefic site.

to be honest, I think the best solution is, not to have made this quiz ;) It is like making a quiz, most common insects. And the source being (a site concerning) insects that have been counted on a specefic day in my garden. It is in no way representative to anything.

I did remarkably better on my 2nd attempt. :-)

Olive, coconut, and avocado oils are really good for you.