Olive Oil vs Sunflower Oil: What’s the Best for You?

Typically, when we talk about vegetable oil to use for meal cooking, it’s olive oil, isn’t it? Yet, Europe offers the greatest alternative to it, our ‘liquid gold’, sunflower seed oil. Why is it better than olive oil and can it be the greatest substitute for it? Let’s consider this in detail in our Ukoil blog.

Considering the Price

The first and foremost reason to try sunflower seed oil instead of olive oil is its price. Typically, sunflower oil pricing is lower while olive oil is quite a costly product.

What About Usefulness?

Olive oil is often called the secret component of the iconic Mediterranean diet. Yet, what about its ingredients and their usefulness? Let’s compare olive oil vs sunflower oil. The most useful fatty acids are polyunsaturated fatty acids. They help improve blood circulation, and tissue nutrition and serve as atherosclerosis prevention. The main and most important for humans are omega-3 (linolenic) and omega-6 (linoleic). They are not synthesized in the body, so they must be obtained from food.

According to experts, the level of omega-3 in olive and sunflower oils is quite low. However, sunflower oil contains up to 74% omega-6, and olive oil contains only 4% to 20%, depending on the type of olives, their degree of maturity and the conditions in which they were grown.

Also, sunflower oil contains 40–60 mg of vitamin E per 100 g. Olive oil contains significantly less of this vitamin – only 12 mg per 100 g.

Where Can You Use Them?

Both olive and sunflower oils are popular in cosmetics production. Yet, when it comes to meal cooking, sunflower oil is more multi-purpose. You can use sunflower oil for frying, baking, simmering, broiling, and seasoning your salads with it. Olive oil loses the battle in terms of multi-purpose use.

That’s why you can try Ukoil’s sunflower oil and evaluate all its benefits compared to olive oil. The results will amaze you, we are sure!