Is sesame oil the only oil widely used for a flavor component?

The ones I can think of are mostly nut oils, not including flavored oils like truffle and garlic oil. Walnut oil has a warm walnut-like flavor, hazelnut is similar but tastes more like hazelnut and less like walnut, pumpkin seed oil has a nutty flavor and a crazy neon green color. If you can get pumpkin seed oil I'd highly recommend it in green lentil/chickpea and buckwheat based cold salads. Then there's flax seed oil, which can have a bitter intense flavor and little goes a long way, it's often used for wood finishing.

A good extra virgin olive oil is probably my favorite, they have such an amazing spectrum of flavors, colors, smells, aftertastes etc. but unfortunately I can't recommend any brands because I get mine from cousins or buy from local farmers in Italy.

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