Re: Canola oil
- To: t*@email.msn.com
- Subject: Re: Canola oil
- From: B* S*
- Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 15:42:55 -0700
Canola oil is one of the healthful ones--high in monosaturates like olive
oil. You can get organically grown canola oils. One is produced by Spectrum
Naturals.
Barbara
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> Canola oil: Can anyone tell me what this is? I wonder if
>it's something quite common, such as rape-seed oil or flax-oil or
>soya oil.... (?) It is marketed from Canada & apparently edible!
>Thanks. Chevrel Traher egpeyzaj@domi.net.tr Istanbul
>"Apparently" edible, is correct. Canola was one of the
>first GE/GM crops - but I don't know if the Canadian product is one of
>the altered ones. While it is "apparently" edible, there has
>been some controversy on another e-mail list about its effects on
>people who are sensitive to pollution - why that should be,
>neither the persons involved nor I have any idea. I am
>sorry, but I do not recall on which of several e-mail lists that it
>came up for discussion - but another aspect was how it was
>processed. There are apparently two methods, one of which involves
>some type of heat, and the "sensitized" person said that the
>non-heat method was preferable even though she could not use the
>product. Toni Seattle tonihawr@email.msn.com
