Calories in Peanut Oil

Peanut oil is a resonalbly healthy cooking oil.  Even though it is healthy too much of a good thing will still make you gain weight.  An average of 1 tablespoon a day when trying to lose weight should be enough.  If you are getting fats and oils from other sources you will not need this much.

To summarize:
1 tablespoon of peanut oil has 119 calories (1.25 in calorie cash™)
1 teaspoon has peanut oil has 40 calories (0.50 in calorie cash™)
1 cup of peanut oil has 1909 calories (19.00 in calorie cash™)  

For many people this (1 cups worth) is a whole days worth of calories!

Calories in Peanut oil
			tbsp	cup	tsp
		100.0g	13.5g	216g	4.5g
Water	g	0	0	0	0
Energy	kcal	884	119	1909	40
Protein	g	0	0	0	0
Total lipid (fat)	g	100	13.5	216	4.5
Carbohydrate, by difference	g	0	0	0	0
Fiber, total dietary	g	0	0	0	0
Sugars, total	g	0	0	0	0
Minerals
Calcium, Ca	mg	0	0	0	0
Iron, Fe	mg	0.03	0	0.06	0
Magnesium, Mg	mg	0	0	0	0
Phosphorus, P	mg	0	0	0	0
Potassium, K	mg	0	0	0	0
Sodium, Na	mg	0	0	0	0
Zinc, Zn	mg	0.01	0	0.02	0
Vitamins
Vitamin C, total ascorbic acid	mg	0	0	0	0
Thiamin	mg	0	0	0	0
Riboflavin	mg	0	0	0	0
Niacin	mg	0	0	0	0
Vitamin B-6	mg	0	0	0	0
Folate, DFE	mcg_DFE	0	0	0	0
Vitamin B-12	µg	0	0	0	0
Vitamin A, RAE	mcg_RAE	0	0	0	0
Vitamin A, IU	IU	0	0	0	0
Vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol)	mg	15.69	2.12	33.89	0.71
Vitamin D (D2 + D3)	µg	0	0	0	0
Vitamin D	IU	0	0	0	0
Vitamin K (phylloquinone)	µg	0.7	0.1	1.5	0
Lipids
Fatty acids, total saturated	g	16.9	2.282	36.504	0.76
Fatty acids, total monounsaturated	g	46.2	6.237	99.792	2.079
Fatty acids, total polyunsaturated	g	32	4.32	69.12	1.44
Cholesterol	mg	0	0	0	0
Other
Caffeine	mg	0	0	0	0

One thing you will notice about this chart is that there are little vitamins and minerals left after processing the oil. Why not eat peanuts and get some oil that way. The peanuts will have more nutrition.  Be careful though; I know that peanuts will put the weight on me.