Beware of Canola Oil

[Dagger]

"Canola oil comes from the rape seed, which is part of the mustard family of plants. Rape is the most toxic of all food-oil plants. Like soy, rape is a weed. Insects will not eat it; it is deadly poisonous! The oil from the rape seed is a hundred times more toxic than soy oil."John Thomas

Oh god another thing to kill us. Anyone ever hear of this?

http://www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com/canola.htm

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blcanola.htm

[phatch]

There's lots of varieties of rapeseed. Go see the movie Lorenzo's Oil to learn about a medical version of rapeseed oil.

The type used for cooking has been carefully bred for safety. BE sure and read pages 2 and 3 of the urban legends link. They explain the origin of the claims and some important facts.

Phil

[chrose]

Am I dead yet?

[Hannibal]

My cuisine won't suffer through lack of canola/rapeseed oil. Why would you want to use that stuff, anyway? It tastes pretty awful, IMHO. Clarified butter, light olive oil, peanut oil, what more do you need?

[liv4fud]

the book that I recently read, an old one (review in book reviews) The Good Fat, Fran Mccollough talks a lot about all the oils that have snuck in our diets thanx to lobbyists without any scientific studies.

rapeseed oil is one of them

[Pete]

I sorry, but I really don't understand this preoccupation with things that are supposedly killing us. If I were to follow the recommendations of half these articles that come out, I'd have been dead of starvation years ago. Don't believe the hype!!!! Virtually everything is slowly killing us. I figure it will take most things 70-90 years before it does me in. Besides, living forever has it's drawbacks also.

[phatch]

Originally Posted by liv4fud

the book that I recently read, an old one (review in book reviews) The Good Fat, Fran Mccollough talks a lot about all the oils that have snuck in our diets thanx to lobbyists without any scientific studies.

rapeseed oil is one of them

There is no longstanding food that would pass our current scientific requirements for food. Brocolli, wheat are full of carcinogens. And on and on. The requirements for new foods and even "frankenfood" can't be met by classic organic foods or standard industrial food either.

FWIW, rapeseed has a LONG history of use in Asia.

Phil

[Kerryclan]

Just about everything we ingest has some low levels of things that if taken in large enough doses and under the right conditions, could be harmful, even foods we consider natural and healthful. These alarmist articles and theories are generally nonsense and are usually proven so.

[deltadoc]

Don't get me wrong here, I am NOT condoning rapeseed oil. From what I've read in the past, it requires heavy industrial processing to be edible. It used (and may still be for all I know) to be used as a transformer insulator or something....BUT...even Olive Oil needs to sit and have it's water soluble toxic component float to the surface before it can be used, right?

doc