This plant oil packs 884 kcal per 100 g — a tablespoon is ~120. In 30 cohorts of 2.71 million people (Ke et al., Food & Function 2024), olive oil at 10 g/day lowered all-cause mortality by 8%. Swapping dense animal fats for a plant oil is the cleanest upgrade published.
How should I track Oil, teaseed?
With calorie-dense foods like Oil, teaseed, a kitchen scale is your best friend. Research shows that portion estimation errors reach 50–200% for fats and oils (Almiron-Roig et al., Appetite 2013) — even a tablespoon off can mean 40–120 extra calories. Weigh on a scale rather than eyeballing — this applies to both liquid oils and solid fats like butter. If you use cooking sprays, note that "0 calorie" labels are per fraction-of-a-second spray — a realistic burst is closer to 5–10 calories, and multiple sprays add up.