Vanaspati Ghee Plant

Before throwing light on the vanaspati ghee or the vegetable fat, lets discuss vanapati. In Sanskrit, vanaspati refers to the entire plant kingdom including herbs, flowers, seeds, etc. However, in ancient texts like Charaka Samhitā, Sushruta Samhita and the Vaisesikas, it is limited to plants that bear fruits but no evident flowers. But now, it includes everything about plants. Vanaspati ghee or vegetable fat is obtained by controlled hydrogenation of edible liquid oils soft oils, so that its hardness, consistency and rainy appearance resembles natural ghee (clarified butter). The oil is derived from plants and are composed of triglycerides, a glyceride in which the glycerol is esterified with three fatty acids.