oleo

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The key is oleo saccharum, which sounds like an ingredient from a laboratory, but is really just a process that pulls essential oils from citrus using sugar.

From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2020

But that hope might be oleo, a poor substitute.

From Time • May 13, 2013

In 1906, vegetable oils were first substituted for the oleo oils, to lower the price and improve the product.

From Time Magazine Archive

As the House debated repeal of federal oleo taxes last week, party lines snapped like serpentin in a gale; the sulphurous debate grew reminiscent of argument in a waterfront saloon.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was slightly better food—at midday, a bowl of real soup, perhaps a slice of vegetable, and at the end of the night shift, bread with oleo.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson