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I figured the cheapest oil ( vegetable, canola, etc ) would be the most widely used cooking oil as well. I've never even heard of soybean oil let alone know any

• Broken_Hippo 5y ago
  In some places, generic "vegetable oil" is all or mostly soybean oil, even some of the cheap brands. The midwest US has lots of corn and soybeans, and it is pretty natural that soybean oil would be fairly common. And honestly, a lot of oils seem obscure. I use grapeseed oil, but hadn't heard of it 10 years ago. I don't know anyone else that does either. They sell it in one of the grocery store chains here, though, and I decided to try it. Something similar must be the case for soybean oil: Some stores in Norway sell a bottle labeled 'soybean oil', so someone must be buying it.
• jccooper 5y ago
  "Vegetable oil" is likely to be partially or mostly soy, as it's the cheapest vegetable oil.