Rapeseed oil is once again the most popular cooking oil

This is followed by sunflower oil and olive oil. Inflation and prices determined the purchasing behavior of Germans in 2023

23-May-2024

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Rapeseed oil will remain the most popular cooking oil among Germans in 2023. Private households consumed around 78 million liters of rapeseed oil last year. This means that around one in three bottles of cooking oil sold contained rapeseed oil. "With its mild taste and diverse, very healthy fatty acid spectrum, rapeseed oil has once again won the hearts of consumers," says OVID President Jaana Kleinschmit von Lengefeld.

It was followed by sunflower oil with 60 million liters and olive oil with 34 million liters. Coconut oil and other edible oils hardly played a role, each accounting for less than two percent of total consumption in 2023. In total, Germans bought around 199 million liters of cooking oil last year, around eleven percent less than in the previous year.

Inflation and prices for edible oils determined the purchasing behavior of Germans last year. The initially high prices for sunflower and rapeseed oil due to the war in Ukraine fell over the course of the year. In contrast, olive oil became more expensive in the retail sector. This was due to a slump in production in Spain, Italy and Portugal. Consumer prices for cold-pressed olive oil from conventional production were around 50% higher at the end of the year than in December 2022.

The new nutritional recommendations of the German Nutrition Society also confirm consumers in their choice. The experts recommend consuming ten grams of vegetable oils a day, for example rapeseed oil and margarine made from it. This is because rapeseed oil in particular has an optimal composition of saturated, monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids.

The figures are based on an analysis by Agrarmarkt Informations-Gesellschaft (AMI) and the GfK household panel.

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