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With the increasing attention of consumers for clean-label foods, the food industry has been in search of natural ingredients as alternatives to synthetic ones. The main factor limiting the shelf life of edible oils is lipid oxidation, and antioxidants are added to foods to prevent this. The resistance of foods to lipid oxidation determines their oxidative stability, which can be measured by accelerated methods at elevated temperatures. In this study, the oxidative stability of widely consumed vegetable edible oils (sunflower, soybean and hazelnut) and the effect of green tea extract as a natural antioxidant were discussed, using exploration of data to ambient temperature by kinetic methods. As a result, the induction period was higher, and the reaction rate constant and Q10 values were lower in the samples with green tea extract (GTE). Moreover, the activation energies of vegetable oils with added GTE were higher.