RE: Canola oil
- To: medit-plants
- Subject: RE: Canola oil
- From: R* R*
- Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 12:55:14 +0800
CANOLA is a widely used commercial name for
oil produced from rape seed
species is Brassica napus
ROd
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> From: Toni Hawryluk
> Reply To: tonihawr@email.msn.com
> Sent: 22 January 2000 4:01 PM
> To: egpeyzaj@domi.net.tr; medit-plants
> Subject: Re: Canola oil
>
> 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
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