Origin of dietary fats and oils

Description

The distinction between dietary fats that come from animals and oils derived from vegetables.

Know animal fats, including butter, ghee, lard, tallow, and any other fatty substance rendered from animal flesh. Know vegetable fats and oils, including those from soy, canola, corn, cottonseed, sunflower, safflower, peanut.

Occupations requiring this skill

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Skill demand overview
  • Essential in 3 occupations
  • Optional in 6 occupations
  • Total: 9 occupations
  • Most common in: ISCO major group 8 (Plant and machine operators, and assemblers)

Essential for

  • Blending plant operator
    Blending plant operators control equipment to weigh and mix vegetable oils used in products such as salad oil and margarines. They tend pump oils to perform the blending according……
  • Oil mill operator
    Oil mill operators tend mills to extract oil from oilseed following an artisanal techniques. Includes people using artisanal oils.Excludes people using electrical equipment, chemic…
  • Fat-purification worker
    Fat-purification workers operate acidulation tanks and equipment that help with the separation of undesirable components from oils. Other titles The following job titles also refer…

Optional for

  • Hydrogenation machine operator
    Hydrogenation machine operators control equipment to process base oils for manufacture of margarine and shortening products. Other titles The following job titles also refer to hyd…
  • Industrial cook
    Industrial cooks create new food designs and recipes. They prepare, measure and mix ingredients to prepare foodstuff products. They control and regulate temperatures, monitor cooki…
  • Centrifuge operator
    Centrifuge operators tend centrifugal machines that separate impurities from food materials aimed to be further processed as to achieve finished foodstuffs. Other titles The follow…
  • Oilseed presser
    Oilseed pressers operate hydraulic presses that extracts oil from oilseed. Includes people working in olive oil, soya seeds, sunflower oil and vegetable oil industries.Includes peo…
  • Chocolatier
    Chocolatiers make confectionery products with chocolate. They perform activities such as examination, feeling, and tasting of ground chocolate paste. Such analysis leads them to as…
  • Clarifier
    Clarifiers operate equipment to remove sediments and moisture from oleo and oils. They heat clarifying tank with steam and strainers for the clarification process. They remove fore…

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Last updated on February 18, 2026

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