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the only crop named by a marketing committee, not nature.
means A bright-yellow-flowering crop and the edible oil pressed from its seeds, bred to be low in the bitter, unhealthy compounds of its rapeseed ancestor.
from A blend of "Canadian oil, low acid" — coined in Canada in the late 20th century to rebrand rapeseed that had been bred down to low levels of erucic acid and glucosinolates. "Rapeseed" (where "rape" comes from Latin "rapum," turnip, a cousin of the plant) sounded unappetizing on a grocery shelf, so the cleaned-up version got a cleaner-sounding name.
- name origin
- Canada + ola, coined in 1978
- old identity
- bred down from toxic rapeseed plant
- low acid
- the o-l-a means low-acid oil
- yellow seas
- its blooms turn fields neon gold
- engine fuel
- runs diesel trucks as biodiesel
canola oil — canada's largest edible oil crop, representing ~20% of global vegetable oil production
canada's canola council — trade association founded 1974, saskatchewan-based, represents 40,000+ canadian canola farmers