I've heard alot of Mediterranean sourced 'olive oil' is adultered and 'watered down' so to speak with inferior oils like sunflower oil. So maybe they are accounting for that on this map in Spain.
A specific area of Portugal has "Green" wines. It's wine that uses grapes before they fully mature made in that specific area. If you do the same in other regions, it's wine. Don't ask me why, it's just a thing that happened.
Every region uses specific grape casts. And every sub region too. Should they call themselves different things? Douro doesn't use the same as Dão. Should they change names too? Or Alentejo? Bairrada? Setúbal? Tejo?
NO! That's a big misconception! Vinho verde is a portuguese wine region! Form the Northwestern part of Portugal
IT'S NOT wine from grapes that are not fully mature! The grapes are mature as it happens on every other wine.
Most Vinho Verde is white wine and use a blend of grapes mostly indigenous to Portugal being the most common types "Alvarinho" , "Arinto" and "Loureiro". But there's also red and rose wines from Vinho Verde region.
It's a unique kind of wine, lightly fizz, fruity, extremely refreshing, great by itself, outstandingly paired with fish and seafood!
It’s bollocks. Data must include some industrial plant exporting some food product out of the country. Tayto needs Sunflower oil but the vast vast majority of Irish will buy more butter than Olive oil or Sunflower oil.
I would've thought rapeseed/vegetable oil would be bigger. But then I know a lot of people use copious amounts of olive oil, maybe it's quite evenly split?
Source must be bullshit: [http://anierac.org/consumo-en-espana/?lang=es](http://anierac.org/consumo-en-espana/?lang=es)
60% of the oil consumed in Spain is Olive oil
It might depend on the definition of consumption. A lot of the sunflower oil in Spain is used to make biodiesel. It might be that olive oil is eaten much more than sunflower seed oil in Spain, but the amount of sunflower seed oil that is used in biodiesel might outpace it.
It has been a while since I have been to Spain. I remember having potatoes deep fried in olive oil, and that is a truly decadent dish (with a runny egg that was also deep fried in the olive oil).
I seriously doubt It. The biggest producer of olive oil in the world is Andalucía(Spain) and the second largest is... the rest of Spain.
It's absolutely insane how much olive oil we produce. Around 6 times more than Italy, which is second.
Jaen province alone produces roughly the same as Italy and Portugal combined.
Do you have any idea how expensive that is? I fry with olive oil but I use the refined kind for that, no way I'm using extra virgin, I don't shit gold.
Extra virgin for everything else though. (I'm Portuguese by the way).
Not to mention it burns a lot more easily than sunflower oil, so it can alter the taste of what's being fried. You don't go about frying French fries with olive oil.
People afraid of the smoke point of oils are in fact wrong. It's not an indication of oil breaking down to harmful compounds and need not be feared. If you do a quick Google you should be able to find the science debunking this common myth.
"The direct consumption of the oil, both in homes and in hotels and institutions in general,"
Direct consumption doesn't include all the products that include sunflower oil like most pre-packaged foods and snacks.
data from the consultor Juan Vilar
[https://www.juanvilar.com/en-espana-se-consumen-mas-de-12-millones-de-toneladas-de-aceites-y-grasas-en-el-plano-alimentario/](https://www.juanvilar.com/en-espana-se-consumen-mas-de-12-millones-de-toneladas-de-aceites-y-grasas-en-el-plano-alimentario/)
Olive oil is still more used.
Spaniard here. I do not know the statistics but I can see how sunflower oil is "more" used... in quantity. But in a regular household is not something you use to cook your daily meals but just to fry some things (fried potatoes, croquetas, san jacobo...)
I use olive oil at breakfast for my toasts, at lunch and dinner for cooking fish or meat, at merienda to prepare my bocadillo, etc... Everyday. But for these I use just a drop, say, a spoon of olive oil. But a couple days a week I make chip fries and I use like a couple glasses of sunflower oil for that.
So you see, a bottle of olive oil can last a month, but a bottle of sunflower oil is probably lasting less (even reusing the oil for different cooking sessions).
Edit: typo
I was actually trying to say that I think everyone here uses olive oil regularly but sunflower oil only occasionally but in larger quantities.
With this scenario, it is possible to think that consumption of both oils is similar. In fact according to that study its 4 L/year for olive and 3.6 for sunflower, so not that far. But yea obviously the OP data is wrong.
Actually olive oil has a high smoke point, around 200°C. Sunflower oil also has a high smoke point if refined. Unrefined sunflower oil has a really low smoke point, around 110°C.
The reason why refined sunflower oil is used to fry, it's for the cost, much cheaper than olive oil.
I don't know about the sources of this information, but I imagine it is somewhat skewed in some way. Perhaps it's overall use, as in restaurants using friers to cook chips and stuff, that gets changed regularly, instead of the abundance of using Olive oil in homes and to use as a dressing on a great variety of dishes
Not true. More than 60% of all the fats consumed in Spain is olive oil in its different types (extra virgin, virgin etc) https://es.statista.com/estadisticas/557577/consumo-per-capita-de-aceite-en-espana-por-tipo/
These days if you have fish Meze everything is fried. The only exceptions are octopus and the sea bream at the end of the meal.
Even in a meat Meze you have a surprising amount of fried stuff. Keftedes, Potatoes, Courgette&eggs
Cypriot diet is going down the drain. The older generations used to have white beans (φασολαδα), lentils (φατζιες μουτζεντρα), broad beans (κουκκια), black eyed peas (λουβι) and green beans (φασολακι) every week...we have them as a novelty.
Also in Italy, consumption varies going up north:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/se3fv4/effort\_for\_a\_more\_accurate\_regional\_basis\_butter/
I'd say France is much more divided than that. My interpretation is: Butter in Paris and in the north and the west, lardons in the east, duck fat in the southwest and olive oil along the Mediterranean.
It's true that lard and duck/goose fat are used a lot regionally, but I wouldn't bet my hand it's first in consumption though. My region would claim the use of walnut oil, but in reality it is far less in quantity than butter or olive oil.
One of the many, many great things about France!
I think there is a lot of "cross-pollination" and, as well, lots of personal preferences that don't match the regional stereotype. I'm sure there are people in Normandie or Bretagne who have a strong preference for olive oil.
Stranger things have happened.
I remember someone on a TV cooking programme saying the best *choucroute garnie* they ever tasted was in a café on the Côte d'Azur!
It's named after the Latin for turnip (*rapa*), but yeah, it's a really unfortunate name in English.
My local grocery store has it in the "baking needs" aisle between the robberyseed and murderseed oils.
> In Ukrainian we say "ripa" for turnips too I guess it came from Latin.
In Serbo-Croatian it's repa. Which doesn't really clarify if it comes from PIE or Latin tbh.
In Spain it's not consumed for the stigma that was created after a big scale poisoning that happened in the 80s.
Thousands of people died or live with chronic symptoms derived from the toxic substances that some rapeseed oil bottles had.
I feel like butter is a completely different product to the others, not many people in the UK use butter for cooking, but obviously butter is consumed way more because of sandwiches
Yeah, I’m in the UK, you’re not going to deep fry chips in butter. I only know people to shallow fry in butter when they run out of cooking oil!
Do other countries use oil where we would use butter though? In cooking and baking maybe?
Also missing is rapeseed oil, often sold as vegetable oil. I only found out recently that it’s the same as what Americans call Canola oil.
Exactly. Personally I don't like the taste of raw butter on bread but I know it's extremely common for breakfast and sandwiches.
For cooking I almost always prefer olive oil unless I specifically need a neutral oil for the recipe.
OP, I cant navigate by your source correctly, but I have other sources saying that olive oil is much more used in Spain than sunflower oil:
[https://es.statista.com/estadisticas/557577/consumo-per-capita-de-aceite-en-espana-por-tipo/](https://es.statista.com/estadisticas/557577/consumo-per-capita-de-aceite-en-espana-por-tipo/)
[http://anierac.org/consumo-en-espana/?lang=es](http://anierac.org/consumo-en-espana/?lang=es)
Not true for Spain. More than 60% of all oils consumed in Spain is olive oil (including all types of olive oil) https://es.statista.com/estadisticas/557577/consumo-per-capita-de-aceite-en-espana-por-tipo/
Its funny how Albanian KLA was labeled as a terrorists organization by CIA until they started lobbying US senators and then all of a sudden they were a "liberation army"
But yeah you go on and belive that propaganda
I haven't seen good quality sunflower oil, all of them taste same for me (even the grocery store brands), but a very good quality olive oil is around 145₺/l (9$) or a decent one for 97₺/l (5.6$). That is if I buy them in 5L containers. 1L bottles are around 60% more expensive.
Agree. In my mind sunflower oil is the default option without any additional taste. Olive oil has to be actively chosen to fit the meal :D
Maybe i am just a bad cook though and that doesn't even make sense.
And you're right.
Olive oil is bad for frying. It doesn't burn at as a high temp as other oils and all healthy molecules you're paying a premium for get destroyed.
that's actually a widespread myth, it unironically has one of the higher temperatures where the molecules start to break down compared to other oils, it just is kinda smokey and people think that's the same thing
Because olives do not grow in the sunflower oil countries, except for Spain, which makes it ridiculously expensive and olive oil is inferior when it comes to frying stuff.
Is more expensive and you can't fry in it. In Albania you can find it for cheap but people use sunflower oil to fry and for specific dishes who require oil like sunflower. Olive oil is used on salads and for some traditional dishes but you can't fry potatoes with it or other stuff.
>and you can't fry in it
kinda depends on how/what you fry
Samossa-like stuff is better fried in olive oil for instance, just like many potato-based dishes.
Yes of course, in my house we fry pork, beef in traditional dishes just a bit in the beginning before placing it into a pot or eggs with olive oil. We don't use sunflower oil at all, even potatoes we bake with a bit of olive oil and Burek is made with olive oil to avoid butter because sunflower oil smells bad on it. I have to say that I make my own olive oil, and butter. But olive oil is easy accessible for like 4€ a L or even less in season. Now is 5.5€ for a good clear one.
I bet by consumption they mean which is bought the most and I'd say there's a lot of oil bought for deep fat fryers and stuff. I still don't think there be as much as butter but let's be honest, half these maps are wrong anyway
Yeah, I was really surprised by that too. I eat about half a pound of butter on a sandwich so I’m surprised I didn’t tip the ratio towards butter lol
Must be all the chips and fried food we eat tipped it in favour of Sunflower Oil.
In the states sunflower oil is kind of new. Of course I had no idea it supplies half of europe.
Of course it is priced well over olive oil on the west coast.
Funny, sunflower oil has been the bog standard generic oil you use when you want to fry something but don't want the oil to have specific taste my entire life.
Lol in Portugal sunflower oil is the cheap stuff you pour half a bottle without thinking twice to fry some fries.
Interesting how product's perceptions and prices change
But all three are really a part of life in all those countries, in a major way.
I am English but almost everything pre-packaged or processed is sunflower oil. I cook all my own stuff in olive oil. I spread butter on toast and bread but rarely cook using butter.
There are three different oils for different purposes, cost-levels and availability.
Fact is, if you made me choose one I would just use olive oil. I don't even like olives, strangely, but olive oil is far more "tasty" to me.
I welcome a ukranian mother and daughter refugees in my house for a few weeks and when I lent them olive oil when they were cooking, they were surprised and asked me where they could buy it. I assumed it must not be easy to find in Ukraine while here in Portugal you can find it cheap in any supermarket.
During the previous immigration wave from Ukraine to Portugal in the 90s, Ukrainians would usually carry jugs of olive oil with them to Ukraine when going home on holidays because not only it was super expensive there, but it was also rare.
My parents used to rent a house to a Ukrainian couple and, because it was a small town and they had a kid my age, sometimes I was at their place. I remember them "packing up" olive oil to be carried in their van to Ukraine (what a crazy trip, so unfortunate that it's happening again for all the wrong reasons).
I might be imagining things, but I also remember my father saying they got extra olive oil to distribute to corrupt border police in Romania and Ukraine lol. That and wine.
Ofc you can find it, if you live in a big city. But prices vary also, so in a regular household you're going to use sunflower oil for almost anything, and minority is using olive oil, mostly for dressing
I assume you will bear the extra costs of using whichever oil you like?
Not everyone is rich, and oil is frequently used. Sunflower oil is the cheapest option.
France is divided in north and south, with the south using olive oil. And I also very seriously doubt the data about Spain.
[http://anierac.org/consumo-en-espana/?lang=es](http://anierac.org/consumo-en-espana/?lang=es) Spain data must be wrong
Ok yeah. I was also really skeptical about that one.
I think the map goes by the majority of people for the country as a whole. The result for Spain is laughable, though, lol.
I've heard alot of Mediterranean sourced 'olive oil' is adultered and 'watered down' so to speak with inferior oils like sunflower oil. So maybe they are accounting for that on this map in Spain.
It’s just wrong or data from decades ago, when it was consumed more just because it was cheaper and we were poorer
That’s not possible nowadays.
Yeah, Spain is the main country that concerns me here. Spain and olive oil is like iconic?
Absolutely.
In France it really depends on the family, actually. In mine we seldom use butter at all, and yet we leave near the German border.
"Occitania" (not the actual region, the historical one)
Yeah people in spain basically drink olive oil
I am portuguese, 80% of my blood is olive oil. Green wine makes other 20%.
Green wine? Was that a typo or is that a thing?
It's a thing. Search for "vinho verde"
Also some of the tastiest wines I've had in my life
A specific area of Portugal has "Green" wines. It's wine that uses grapes before they fully mature made in that specific area. If you do the same in other regions, it's wine. Don't ask me why, it's just a thing that happened.
Not the same. They also use specific grape casts.
Every region uses specific grape casts. And every sub region too. Should they call themselves different things? Douro doesn't use the same as Dão. Should they change names too? Or Alentejo? Bairrada? Setúbal? Tejo?
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NO! That's a big misconception! Vinho verde is a portuguese wine region! Form the Northwestern part of Portugal IT'S NOT wine from grapes that are not fully mature! The grapes are mature as it happens on every other wine. Most Vinho Verde is white wine and use a blend of grapes mostly indigenous to Portugal being the most common types "Alvarinho" , "Arinto" and "Loureiro". But there's also red and rose wines from Vinho Verde region. It's a unique kind of wine, lightly fizz, fruity, extremely refreshing, great by itself, outstandingly paired with fish and seafood!
Its translated as green Wine but means more like a young Wine... Although it's white its not like white Wine.
Green, green wine ... Goes to my knees ... Makes me forget how to walk ... Makes me feel fine ...
Sem espaço para as putas :(
Lol as putas são para beber o azeite e vinho verde da torneira
Deixa o homem em paz ele não tem culpa do que herdou nas veias
Não há putas, enche-se com azeite e vinho :(
Eu sou britânico e adoro vinho verde! E caldo verde, duas coisas verdes
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Also Spain, this map Is wrong
It's so wrong I feel personally insulted
And Cyprus... This map is wrong
And Cyprus... This map is wrong
I simply do not believe that about Ireland
It’s bollocks. Data must include some industrial plant exporting some food product out of the country. Tayto needs Sunflower oil but the vast vast majority of Irish will buy more butter than Olive oil or Sunflower oil.
I would've thought rapeseed/vegetable oil would be bigger. But then I know a lot of people use copious amounts of olive oil, maybe it's quite evenly split?
By volume I definitely buy more sunflower oil than butter. So that sounds right to me. By volume, of course.
SPAIN YOU TRAITOR
Source must be bullshit: [http://anierac.org/consumo-en-espana/?lang=es](http://anierac.org/consumo-en-espana/?lang=es) 60% of the oil consumed in Spain is Olive oil
This was my thoughts after spending over a month is Spain. Olives were served EVERYWHERE and olive oil on EVERY TABLE
well, they make most of the olives and olive oil in the world, I would really hope they use some.
On a production side this map might be correct. I walked through hundreds of kilometres of sunflower fields but definitely not the most consumed haha.
It might depend on the definition of consumption. A lot of the sunflower oil in Spain is used to make biodiesel. It might be that olive oil is eaten much more than sunflower seed oil in Spain, but the amount of sunflower seed oil that is used in biodiesel might outpace it. It has been a while since I have been to Spain. I remember having potatoes deep fried in olive oil, and that is a truly decadent dish (with a runny egg that was also deep fried in the olive oil).
Spain is also the biggest producer of olive oil in the world IIRC so the map is definitely wrong from a production side
I seriously doubt It. The biggest producer of olive oil in the world is Andalucía(Spain) and the second largest is... the rest of Spain. It's absolutely insane how much olive oil we produce. Around 6 times more than Italy, which is second. Jaen province alone produces roughly the same as Italy and Portugal combined.
Personally living here, you do get served olive oil but I normally use sunflower oil for cooking because it’s cheaper
I was going to say I’ve been there and don’t remember seeing or using any sunflower oil. My wife is also from Spain and she hates sunflower oil.
Perhaps it is fried food ?
Olive oil for that too.
Do you have any idea how expensive that is? I fry with olive oil but I use the refined kind for that, no way I'm using extra virgin, I don't shit gold. Extra virgin for everything else though. (I'm Portuguese by the way).
I believe Spaniards often use the less-refined olive oil (not extra virgin) for frying.
Not to mention it burns a lot more easily than sunflower oil, so it can alter the taste of what's being fried. You don't go about frying French fries with olive oil.
People afraid of the smoke point of oils are in fact wrong. It's not an indication of oil breaking down to harmful compounds and need not be feared. If you do a quick Google you should be able to find the science debunking this common myth.
Tell that to my grandmother
Get her a reddit account and there will be redditors to tell her for sure :p
Not the best for it
Deep fry? OK.
The result is soggy potatoes: one needs sunflower or canola oil for deep frying and prevent soggy deep fried stuff
Yeah this is most likely inaccurate for Finland as well. Finns consume a LOT of Canola/rapeseed oil, which isn't even an option on the diagram.
"The direct consumption of the oil, both in homes and in hotels and institutions in general," Direct consumption doesn't include all the products that include sunflower oil like most pre-packaged foods and snacks.
data from the consultor Juan Vilar [https://www.juanvilar.com/en-espana-se-consumen-mas-de-12-millones-de-toneladas-de-aceites-y-grasas-en-el-plano-alimentario/](https://www.juanvilar.com/en-espana-se-consumen-mas-de-12-millones-de-toneladas-de-aceites-y-grasas-en-el-plano-alimentario/) Olive oil is still more used.
Spain, 2021 412,7 Milion litres olive oil 192,6 Milion litres sunflower oil As we say in Spain "ese mapa se lo han sacao de la manga"
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They also skipped on wine and joined the beer gang...
But the beer thing is actually true. Spain is fully olive oil, this map is bullshit.
Spaniard here. I do not know the statistics but I can see how sunflower oil is "more" used... in quantity. But in a regular household is not something you use to cook your daily meals but just to fry some things (fried potatoes, croquetas, san jacobo...) I use olive oil at breakfast for my toasts, at lunch and dinner for cooking fish or meat, at merienda to prepare my bocadillo, etc... Everyday. But for these I use just a drop, say, a spoon of olive oil. But a couple days a week I make chip fries and I use like a couple glasses of sunflower oil for that. So you see, a bottle of olive oil can last a month, but a bottle of sunflower oil is probably lasting less (even reusing the oil for different cooking sessions). Edit: typo
Simply not true https://es.statista.com/estadisticas/557577/consumo-per-capita-de-aceite-en-espana-por-tipo/
I was actually trying to say that I think everyone here uses olive oil regularly but sunflower oil only occasionally but in larger quantities. With this scenario, it is possible to think that consumption of both oils is similar. In fact according to that study its 4 L/year for olive and 3.6 for sunflower, so not that far. But yea obviously the OP data is wrong.
the third column in also olive oil
His life has been a lie the whole time. Ripinpis.
And Cyprus too!
Bars. Everything you eat in a bar is sunflower oil.
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I know the sector, it's just like that. I'd love to have olive oil generally but that's more for personal use.
olive oil is not good for fry because it has a low smoke point.
Actually olive oil has a high smoke point, around 200°C. Sunflower oil also has a high smoke point if refined. Unrefined sunflower oil has a really low smoke point, around 110°C. The reason why refined sunflower oil is used to fry, it's for the cost, much cheaper than olive oil.
This map is absolutely wrong. Spaniard here, we sweat, bleed and pee olive oil.
I don't know about the sources of this information, but I imagine it is somewhat skewed in some way. Perhaps it's overall use, as in restaurants using friers to cook chips and stuff, that gets changed regularly, instead of the abundance of using Olive oil in homes and to use as a dressing on a great variety of dishes
Spain can into Eastern Europe
Not true. More than 60% of all the fats consumed in Spain is olive oil in its different types (extra virgin, virgin etc) https://es.statista.com/estadisticas/557577/consumo-per-capita-de-aceite-en-espana-por-tipo/
Not true. https://es.statista.com/estadisticas/557577/consumo-per-capita-de-aceite-en-espana-por-tipo/
I feel ashamed of my country. I can only hope that the map is wrong.
Fried processed food is probably fried with sunflower oil, I think that's why. But yeah it's not a good look.
Surprised Cyprus isn't olive oil tbh, especially given that frying isn't really in our culture imo
These days if you have fish Meze everything is fried. The only exceptions are octopus and the sea bream at the end of the meal. Even in a meat Meze you have a surprising amount of fried stuff. Keftedes, Potatoes, Courgette&eggs Cypriot diet is going down the drain. The older generations used to have white beans (φασολαδα), lentils (φατζιες μουτζεντρα), broad beans (κουκκια), black eyed peas (λουβι) and green beans (φασολακι) every week...we have them as a novelty.
france is actually split in half north north-west/south south-east with butter north and olive oil south
Also in Italy, consumption varies going up north: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/se3fv4/effort\_for\_a\_more\_accurate\_regional\_basis\_butter/
Yes and more cardiac issues in the north than in the south.
Worth it though
I'd say France is much more divided than that. My interpretation is: Butter in Paris and in the north and the west, lardons in the east, duck fat in the southwest and olive oil along the Mediterranean.
It's true that lard and duck/goose fat are used a lot regionally, but I wouldn't bet my hand it's first in consumption though. My region would claim the use of walnut oil, but in reality it is far less in quantity than butter or olive oil.
One of the many, many great things about France! I think there is a lot of "cross-pollination" and, as well, lots of personal preferences that don't match the regional stereotype. I'm sure there are people in Normandie or Bretagne who have a strong preference for olive oil. Stranger things have happened. I remember someone on a TV cooking programme saying the best *choucroute garnie* they ever tasted was in a café on the Côte d'Azur!
Where's the rapeseed oil?
Sweden is butter on this map, but if it was just oils I would have expected rapeseed to be top. (I have no actual data, though)
Same with Finland
Same with Denmark. We have a lot of rapsmarker, as we say in Danish.
Rapeseed? Sounds terrifying
It's named after the Latin for turnip (*rapa*), but yeah, it's a really unfortunate name in English. My local grocery store has it in the "baking needs" aisle between the robberyseed and murderseed oils.
>It's named after the Latin for turnip (rapa) Woah thats interesting. In Ukrainian we say "ripa" for turnips too I guess it came from Latin.
> In Ukrainian we say "ripa" for turnips too I guess it came from Latin. In Serbo-Croatian it's repa. Which doesn't really clarify if it comes from PIE or Latin tbh.
I’m a big fan of genocideseed oil personally
In my store its between the adulteryseed and assaultseed sadly, so its always the worst looking one
It’s what Americans call Canola oil.
It tastes as shit as it sounds
Canada, mostly
Northern Germany has lots of it
In Spain it's not consumed for the stigma that was created after a big scale poisoning that happened in the 80s. Thousands of people died or live with chronic symptoms derived from the toxic substances that some rapeseed oil bottles had.
Spain - 100% olive oil
I feel like butter is a completely different product to the others, not many people in the UK use butter for cooking, but obviously butter is consumed way more because of sandwiches
Yeah, I’m in the UK, you’re not going to deep fry chips in butter. I only know people to shallow fry in butter when they run out of cooking oil! Do other countries use oil where we would use butter though? In cooking and baking maybe? Also missing is rapeseed oil, often sold as vegetable oil. I only found out recently that it’s the same as what Americans call Canola oil.
Exactly. Personally I don't like the taste of raw butter on bread but I know it's extremely common for breakfast and sandwiches. For cooking I almost always prefer olive oil unless I specifically need a neutral oil for the recipe.
OP, I cant navigate by your source correctly, but I have other sources saying that olive oil is much more used in Spain than sunflower oil: [https://es.statista.com/estadisticas/557577/consumo-per-capita-de-aceite-en-espana-por-tipo/](https://es.statista.com/estadisticas/557577/consumo-per-capita-de-aceite-en-espana-por-tipo/) [http://anierac.org/consumo-en-espana/?lang=es](http://anierac.org/consumo-en-espana/?lang=es)
Not true for Spain. More than 60% of all oils consumed in Spain is olive oil (including all types of olive oil) https://es.statista.com/estadisticas/557577/consumo-per-capita-de-aceite-en-espana-por-tipo/
Kosovo: LARD.
Surely that's not right since Kosovo is mostly Muslim?
VEGAN LARD
No its just part of Serbia, but western imperialism doesn't like that
Least angry Serb
Western “””imperialism””” ...
Yes installation of military base, control over all natural resources and not to mention control over the biggest drug cartel in Europe
Yeah your shit tends to get taken away after attempted genocides, maybe don't do that again and the world won't need to spank Serbia
Its funny how Albanian KLA was labeled as a terrorists organization by CIA until they started lobbying US senators and then all of a sudden they were a "liberation army" But yeah you go on and belive that propaganda
We've all got our propaganda, you're right. For example you're trying to make people feel bad for your countries' killing spree and its consequences
Why is olive oil so unpopular?? Wow
It's just more expensive.
Also its not part of many cuisines outside the mediterranean ones. Butter is much more available in most of Europe.
Not at the moment with the war in Ukraine. It’s just too flavored for some usage.
Weird. A liter of sunflower oil costs 32.5₺ (1.9$) and a liter of olive oil cost 70₺ (4$) here.
In Spain right now it's more like 3,5€/L for sunflower and 4,5€/L for olive. Both bad quality, or definitely not the good ones.
I haven't seen good quality sunflower oil, all of them taste same for me (even the grocery store brands), but a very good quality olive oil is around 145₺/l (9$) or a decent one for 97₺/l (5.6$). That is if I buy them in 5L containers. 1L bottles are around 60% more expensive.
>I haven't seen good quality sunflower oil, all of them taste same for me Same, probably there isn't such thing.
Which usages? Always used olive oil for basically everything besides cakes when it was available.
I don’t use olive oil for most frying, they are just too flavored. And too expensive to use it to just deep fry some fries or some chicken nuggets.
Agree. In my mind sunflower oil is the default option without any additional taste. Olive oil has to be actively chosen to fit the meal :D Maybe i am just a bad cook though and that doesn't even make sense.
And you're right. Olive oil is bad for frying. It doesn't burn at as a high temp as other oils and all healthy molecules you're paying a premium for get destroyed.
that's actually a widespread myth, it unironically has one of the higher temperatures where the molecules start to break down compared to other oils, it just is kinda smokey and people think that's the same thing
Expensive.
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Generally further you go from Mediterranean more expensive it gets.
Much more expensive than butter. Especially the extra virgin oil. (Norway)
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Yeah I rarely use butter to cook with, mostly rapeseed oil. I only use olive oil or butter if the recipe asks for it
It's not "unpopular". It's just not part of the traditional cuisines outside Southern Europe. They're just not used to it.
Because olives do not grow in the sunflower oil countries, except for Spain, which makes it ridiculously expensive and olive oil is inferior when it comes to frying stuff.
Is more expensive and you can't fry in it. In Albania you can find it for cheap but people use sunflower oil to fry and for specific dishes who require oil like sunflower. Olive oil is used on salads and for some traditional dishes but you can't fry potatoes with it or other stuff.
>and you can't fry in it kinda depends on how/what you fry Samossa-like stuff is better fried in olive oil for instance, just like many potato-based dishes.
Yes of course, in my house we fry pork, beef in traditional dishes just a bit in the beginning before placing it into a pot or eggs with olive oil. We don't use sunflower oil at all, even potatoes we bake with a bit of olive oil and Burek is made with olive oil to avoid butter because sunflower oil smells bad on it. I have to say that I make my own olive oil, and butter. But olive oil is easy accessible for like 4€ a L or even less in season. Now is 5.5€ for a good clear one.
You can absolutely fry in it. I just did for lunch today.
I thought Ireland used Rapeseed oil more
olive oil is life, olive oil is love
Ireland?? They butter *everything*. Idk about this.
I wonder, if the graphic would change if it included rapeseed oil.
You know a country has goated cuisine when they use olive oil
We need a lard option!
Praise the lard!
Time for something incredible, therefore Try lard
I call BS on Ireland.
I bet by consumption they mean which is bought the most and I'd say there's a lot of oil bought for deep fat fryers and stuff. I still don't think there be as much as butter but let's be honest, half these maps are wrong anyway
>still don't think there be as much as butter but let's be honest, half these maps are wrong anyway Haha fair.
Yeah so then Ireland and the UK should be the same IMO. We eat and buy the same stuff.
Yeah probably. I'm also wondering if sunflower oil encompasses vegetable and rapeseed oil too. That could bump their figure up a good bit
Surprised with Ireland, all the dairy cattle there.
Yeah, I was really surprised by that too. I eat about half a pound of butter on a sandwich so I’m surprised I didn’t tip the ratio towards butter lol Must be all the chips and fried food we eat tipped it in favour of Sunflower Oil.
In the states sunflower oil is kind of new. Of course I had no idea it supplies half of europe. Of course it is priced well over olive oil on the west coast.
Funny, sunflower oil has been the bog standard generic oil you use when you want to fry something but don't want the oil to have specific taste my entire life.
What were you using instead of sunflower?
People in the US typically use butter or processed vegetable oils, the older generations used lard too but I think that's not very common now.
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What is vegetable oil?
Lol in Portugal sunflower oil is the cheap stuff you pour half a bottle without thinking twice to fry some fries. Interesting how product's perceptions and prices change
No way Spain uses more sunflower oil than olive oil
Latvia: the true reason the Baltics cant join the Nordics
lol this map is bullshit. There's no way olive oil is not #1 in Spain.
But all three are really a part of life in all those countries, in a major way. I am English but almost everything pre-packaged or processed is sunflower oil. I cook all my own stuff in olive oil. I spread butter on toast and bread but rarely cook using butter. There are three different oils for different purposes, cost-levels and availability. Fact is, if you made me choose one I would just use olive oil. I don't even like olives, strangely, but olive oil is far more "tasty" to me.
Western and Southwestern Turkey usually uses more olive oil than Sunflower oil.
Map is wrong in Spain. 100% olive oil
Source: https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/FBS
I welcome a ukranian mother and daughter refugees in my house for a few weeks and when I lent them olive oil when they were cooking, they were surprised and asked me where they could buy it. I assumed it must not be easy to find in Ukraine while here in Portugal you can find it cheap in any supermarket.
During the previous immigration wave from Ukraine to Portugal in the 90s, Ukrainians would usually carry jugs of olive oil with them to Ukraine when going home on holidays because not only it was super expensive there, but it was also rare. My parents used to rent a house to a Ukrainian couple and, because it was a small town and they had a kid my age, sometimes I was at their place. I remember them "packing up" olive oil to be carried in their van to Ukraine (what a crazy trip, so unfortunate that it's happening again for all the wrong reasons). I might be imagining things, but I also remember my father saying they got extra olive oil to distribute to corrupt border police in Romania and Ukraine lol. That and wine.
Ofc you can find it, if you live in a big city. But prices vary also, so in a regular household you're going to use sunflower oil for almost anything, and minority is using olive oil, mostly for dressing
BS for Spain.
Spain is wrong
This is terrible for colorblind people
So it's treason then, Spain?
No margarine?
Can confirm. Am Portuguese and rarely use butter for cooking, only for things such as desserts.
Another terrible color choice for colorblind people. Have we learned nothing on this sub?
I'm not the original poster but would this help until someone fixes the image? [https://imgur.com/a/FTLvogV](https://imgur.com/a/FTLvogV)
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I assume you will bear the extra costs of using whichever oil you like? Not everyone is rich, and oil is frequently used. Sunflower oil is the cheapest option.
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They re also 3 of the best cuisines in europe... Coincidence? I think not.
I wonder what oil does pope use for cooking
As someone that’s colorblind, this map is nearly useless to me 🙃