soybean oil

noun

plural soybean oils

: a pale yellow drying or semidrying oil that is obtained from soybeans and is used chiefly as a food, in paints, varnishes, linoleum, printing ink, and soap, and as a source of phospholipids, fatty acids, and sterols

Examples of soybean oil in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

For once, that’s an easy diet to swallow: One menu item might be salmon seared in soybean oil, Morrison suggests. —Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2025

Adding them into every meal—or even preparing your food in soybean oil—adds the nutrient to dishes. —Alessandra Signorelli, Vogue, 11 Mar. 2025

Olive, canola and soybean oils had the most beneficial impact on health outcomes in the study, according to Zhang, which comes from their high levels of anti-inflammatory omega-3 fatty acids. —Julianna Bragg, CNN, 6 Mar. 2025

Taken together, these studies show that when saturated fats such as beef tallow are replaced with seed oils that have lower omega-6 to omega-3 ratios, such as soybean oil, the risk of heart attacks and death from heart disease falls. —Mary J. Scourboutakos, The Conversation, 7 Feb. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1904, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for soybean oil

• aerofoil
• cinquefoil
• hydrofoil
• quatrefoil
• airfoil
• benzoyl
• despoil
• embroil
• etoile
• gargoyle
• recoil
• subsoil

Medical Definition

soybean oil

noun

variants also soya-bean oil

: a pale yellow drying or semidrying oil that is obtained from soybeans and is used chiefly as a food, in paints, varnishes, linoleum, printing ink, and soap, and as a source of phospholipids, fatty acids, and sterols