Canola oil used to be called RAPESEED oil but the
name was changed for marketing reasons.
Olive oil comes from olive, grapeseed
oil comes from grape seeds, peanut oil
comes from peanuts and canola oil comes
from… rapeseed. The plant known as
“rape,” from a Latin word for “turnip,” is a
domesticated crop in the widely cultivated
Brassicaceae family (also known as the
mustard family, the cabbage family, or the
cruciferous vegetables). Although the word
has disturbing connotations today, during
World War II people thought nothing
of referring to “rapeseed,” and the oil
from those seeds was used for industrial
purposes.
The real problem with the name “rapeseed
oil” is that the oil was so toxic that the
FDA banned it for human consumption in 1956. So when Canadian growers bred a new
variety of rapeseed in the 1970s with a lower content of the toxic erucic acid, they decided
they needed a new name for it. The term canola was coined from “Canadian oil, low acid” to
convince consumers that this oil was safe to eat. And while “canola” was originally a registered
trademark, the term became so widely known that the trademark was eventually abandoned,
and “canola” became the default term in many countries for any low-erucic rapeseed oil.
Canola oil used to be called RAPESEED oil but the
name was changed for marketing reasons.
Olive oil comes from olive, grapeseed
oil comes from grape seeds, peanut oil
comes from peanuts and canola oil comes
from… rapeseed. The plant known as
“rape,” from a Latin word for “turnip,” is a
domesticated crop in the widely cultivated
Brassicaceae family (also known as the
mustard family, the cabbage family, or the
cruciferous vegetables). Although the word
has disturbing connotations today, during
World War II people thought nothing
of referring to “rapeseed,” and the oil
from those seeds was used for industrial
purposes.
The real problem with the name “rapeseed
oil” is that the oil was so toxic that the
FDA banned it for human consumption in 1956. So when Canadian growers bred a new
variety of rapeseed in the 1970s with a lower content of the toxic erucic acid, they decided
they needed a new name for it. The term canola was coined from “Canadian oil, low acid” to
convince consumers that this oil was safe to eat. And while “canola” was originally a registered
trademark, the term became so widely known that the trademark was eventually abandoned,
and “canola” became the default term in many countries for any low-erucic rapeseed oil.
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