The linters are used for items such as film, currency and cellulose used in foods like ice cream, syrup and gum. Even the hulls surrounding the kernel are used for roughage in the diet of cattle and as an organic mulch for gardening. The cotton plant produces twice as much seed as it does fiber. The seed from one bale of cotton will produce enough oil to cook almost 6000 snack bags of potato chips. Many products such as Crisco, Wesson Oil, Ivory Soap and others were originally developed using cottonseed oil.
Cottonseed oil contains no cholesterol and plays a large role in reducing fat intake.