What Is the pH of Vegetable Oil?

Vegetable oil, like this olive oil, does not have a pH value.
Vegetable oil, like this olive oil, does not have a pH value. Neither does any other pure oil or other liquid that does not contain water. Lemone, Creative Commons License
by Anne Marie Helmenstine, Ph.D.
Updated March 06, 2017

Question: What Is the pH of Vegetable Oil?

Answer: Actually, you can't measure the pH of vegetable oil because it doesn't have one! pH is a measure of the hydrogen ion concentration in an aqueous solution (water). Because there is no water in vegetable oil, there is no pH value.

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