Vegetable oil is a cheap alternative to olive oil. Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Canola (Rapeseed) Oil. There are two main types of rapeseed oil: industrial and culinary.

The US Food and Drug Administration proposed a ban on brominated vegetable oil — an ingredient in some sodas — that has toxic effects on the thyroid, animal studies showed.

Brominated vegetable oil is a food additive primarily used in fruit-flavored sports drinks and sodas to keep ingredients from separating. It contains bromine, an element found in flame retardants.