Short answer: yes — groundnut oil is one of the better everyday cooking oils for Indian kitchens, which is exactly why it's been the daily oil across western India for generations. Here's the practical reasoning, without the health hype.
Why it works as a daily oil
It's mild. Groundnut oil has only a faint nuttiness, so it doesn't impose a flavour on everything you cook. A daily oil needs to disappear into the dish, and this one does.
It takes heat well. With a smoke point around 225–230 °C (Wikipedia), it's comfortable with the tadka, sabzi and shallow-frying that fill an Indian week — no smoking, no fuss.
It's versatile. Tempering, frying, sautéing, even some baking — one oil covers most of what a home kitchen does daily.
Its fat profile leans favourable. Groundnut oil is naturally richer in monounsaturated fat (MUFA) than many refined oils — and high-oleic varieties more so. We'll leave health conclusions to your doctor and to guidance like the ICMR-NIN Dietary Guidelines; what we can say is that a MUFA-rich oil is also a more stable everyday oil.
The sensible caveats
No oil is a free pass. For daily cooking, the universal good habits apply: use oil in moderation, don't overheat it to smoking, and don't reuse frying oil repeatedly (India's FSSAI RUCO programme exists to discourage that). A good daily oil used carelessly isn't doing you any favours.
Quality matters as much as the oil type
"Groundnut oil" on a cheap tin and a well-made single-origin one aren't the same. For something you'll use every day, it's worth choosing one with a named source, a clear pressing method, a manufacturing date and batch testing. (More in The Complete Guide to Groundnut Oil.)
Where Beej fits
If groundnut oil is going to be your daily oil, Mt. Girnar Reserve Groundnut Oil is the version worth using: single-origin high-oleic groundnuts from Junagadh, vagai wood-pressed and single-pressed, lab-tested batch by batch, and 75%+ MUFA — a fat profile comparable to extra-virgin olive oil, with the heat tolerance daily Indian cooking needs. Light, clean, and made for everyday use.
An everyday oil worth using daily: Buy Mt. Girnar Reserve Groundnut Oil →