How much saturated fat is in olive oil?

100 g of Olive oil contains 13.8 g of saturated fat, which is 69% of the Daily Value.

What this means for you

A tablespoon of olive oil carries about 1.9 g of saturated fat out of roughly 13.5 g of total fat. The great majority of it is unsaturated, mostly monounsaturated.

Olive oil is often described as though it contained none at all, and that is not right either. Every fat is a mixture. The honest version is that olive oil is one of the better-composed ones and that a tablespoon is around 120 calories, which is the number people underestimate when they pour by eye.

Measuring it once or twice is a useful exercise. Most of us pour considerably more than we think, and in a pan the difference between a measured tablespoon and a free-hand pour is often double.

None of this is an argument for cooking without fat. Fat carries flavour, makes vegetables worth eating and helps you absorb the fat-soluble vitamins in them. It is an argument for knowing roughly what leaves the bottle.

Written from the evidence cards and the data on this page, then checked back against the sources. Bioma Learn has no human medical reviewer at this time and we say so rather than invent one. Information, not medical advice. How we verify.

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Data: USDA FoodData Central, FDC ID 171413. % Daily Value against FDA. Checked 2026-09-15.