Canola is slight different from rapeseed, and was created at the University of Manitoba. The name ‘canola’ is a portmanteau of Canada and the initialism of ‘Oil Low Acid’.
All rapeseed farmed today is 0- or 00-rapeseed (free from erucic acid). But not all is canola. Canola is a summer rape. After that breakthrough they created a 0-winter-rape in Gießen and Göttingen (Germany) called “Lesira”.
Other brand names are ‘Liglandor’, ‘Lindora’, ‘Liropa’ and ‘Elena’.
Canola is slight different from rapeseed, and was created at the University of Manitoba. The name ‘canola’ is a portmanteau of Canada and the initialism of ‘Oil Low Acid’.
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Is there very much rapeseed farmed today that is not canola?
Just read it on Wikipedia:
All rapeseed farmed today is 0- or 00-rapeseed (free from erucic acid). But not all is canola. Canola is a summer rape. After that breakthrough they created a 0-winter-rape in Gießen and Göttingen (Germany) called “Lesira”.
Other brand names are ‘Liglandor’, ‘Lindora’, ‘Liropa’ and ‘Elena’.