Olive
oil comes from olive, grapeseed oil comes from grape seeds, peanut oil comes
from peanuts and canola oil comes from... rapeseed. The plant known as "rape,"
from a Latin word for "turnip," is a domesticated crop in the widely cultivated
Brassicaceae family (also known as the mustard family, the cabbage
family, or the cruciferous vegetables). Although the word has disturbing
connotations today, during World War II people thought nothing of referring to
"rapeseed," and the oil from those seeds was used for industrial
purposes.
The real problem with the name "rapeseed oil" is that the oil
was so toxic that
the FDA banned it for human consumption in 1956. So
when Canadian growers bred a new variety of rapeseed in the 1970s with a lower
content of the toxic
erucic acid, they decided they needed a new name for
it.
The term canola was coined from "Canadian oil, low acid" to convince
consumers that this oil was safe to eat. And while "canola" was originally a
registered trademark, the term became so widely known that the trademark was
eventually abandoned, and "canola" became the default term in many countries for
any low-erucic rapeseed oil.
Canola oil is a very effective
insecticide, and it is the primary ingredient in many "organic"
(non-chemical) pesticide control products sprayed on vegetables to kill bugs. I
covered this in my "canola oil pesticide" video:
http://naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=AEE77E1636E97778AB05E6F31D6B1C27
Source:
25 Amazing Facts About Food, authored by Mike Adams and David Guiterrez.
This report reveals surprising things about where your food comes from and
what's really in it!
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you'll learn 24 more amazing but true facts about foods, beverages and food
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Additional Sources:http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rapehttp://www.ers.usda.gov/Briefing/SoybeansOilcrops/Canola.htmhttp://www.canola-council.org/chapter2.aspxhttp://www.foodista.com/food/KLDGDS5L/canola-oil 
