• nyan@lemmy.cafe
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    9 hours ago

    Well, part of the reason. “Canola” is really only the edible variant, which is now a bit more than fifty years old. Older cultivars contained large amounts of erucic acid, which apparently is neither tasty nor very good for you.

    I don’t know whether anyone still grows the non-canola rapeseed cultivars as a cash crop.