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Article Evidence of health benefits of canola oil

Dear Arvind,

Many thanks for your kind reply.

Pedro

Over the last 30 years, clinical studies involving thousands of healthy volunteers have been conducted. These studies examined the role of canola oil in lowering blood cholesterol levels and reducing the risk of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and high blood pressure. Studies have confirmed that when it is part of a balanced diet, canola oil reduces blood cholesterol levels and has a beneficial effect on clot formation, reducing the risk of heart disease and stroke. Canola oil contains only 7% saturated fat compared to 15% for olive oil, 19% for peanut oil and 12% for sunflower oil. Before being approved for food use, canola oil had to undergo rigorous animal feed testing to ensure that it was edible. Many studies have demonstrated the benefits of incorporating canola oil into human diets.

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Dear Bachir,

Many thanks for your positive comments.

Pedro.

Yes, because of toxicity of rapeseeds.

It seems that the proper canola oil comes from cultivars seeds having a low erucic acid content, and no toxicity.

Canola is a hydrid/modified variety of rapeseed. Initially, rapeseed had a very high amount of erucic acid and glucosinolates. Erucic acid has been shown adverse effects such as cardiac injury, fatty deposits in heart muscles and adrenals in rodents along with impaired growth in animals. Another major problem with rapeseed was the presence of goitrogenic glucosinolates (sulphur containing glucosides) in rapeseed meal (used as animal feed) which interferes with the absorption of iodine by thyroid gland and affects normal growth and development.

Due to all these problems, rapeseed was modified into canola through advanced breeding techniques. Canola has no or minimal amount of erucic acid and glucosinolates.

Therefore, now, canola oil and meal is totally safe. In fact, canola oil has several health benefits over other vegetable oils due to its higher content of omega-3 fatty acids.

Dear Ankit,

Many thanks for your comments. Pedro.

I am a Canadian and avoid canola at all costs. Simply it is a man-made crop and I only like God-made crops. Humans are after money, not quality and health. Not to mention that canola needs frequent air spraying with toxic chemicals that go into the air, we breath and die with cancer.

Dear Michael,

Thanks for your sensible approach. Pedro.