Canola oil is a vegetable-based oil found in countless foods. Many people have cut canola oil out of their diet due to concerns over its health effects and production methods. However, you may still wonder whether it’s best to use or avoid canola oil.
Canola oil was created in a Canadian university lab by Dr. Baldur Steffanson. Dr. Steffanson, after getting his newly created version of Rapeseed to meet FDA guidelines (with less toxic eurcic acid) he went on to work for Calgene.
How is Canola Oil Made
According to the Canola Council of Canada, this process involves the following steps (3):
- Seed cleaning. Canola seeds are separated and cleaned to remove impurities such as plant stalks and dirt.
- Seed conditioning and flaking: Seeds are pre-heated to about 95℉ (35℃), then “flaked” by roller mills to rupture the cell wall of the seed.
- Seed cooking. The seed flakes are cooked by a series of steam-heated cookers. Typically, this heating process lasts 15–20 minutes at 176–221℉ (80°–105°C).
- Pressing. Next, the cooked canola seed flakes are pressed in a series of screw presses or expellers. This action removes 50–60% of the oil from the flakes, leaving the rest to be extracted by other means.
- Solvent extraction. The remaining seed flakes, containing 18–20% oil, are further broken down using a chemical called hexane to obtain the remainder of the oil.
Rapeseed oil is the most widely consumed “food stuff” toxin in the world
When it comes to cooking oils and preservatives, canola is the most widely consumed food toxin in the world, and nobody seems to know it. A new study published online by researchers from the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, and published in Scientific Reports, associated canola consumption with weight gain, restricted learning ability and worsened memory. That’s some cheap brain damage. We’re talking about early onset dementia here. Want some?
Canola oil linked to worsened memory and learning ability in Alzheimer’s
Now, a new study published online December 7 in the journal Scientific Reports by researchers at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University (LKSOM) associates the consumption of canola oil in the diet with worsened memory, worsened learning ability and weight gain in mice which model Alzheimer’s disease. The study is the first to suggest that canola oil is more harmful than healthful for the brain.
“Canola oil is appealing because it is less expensive than other vegetable oils, and it is advertised as being healthy,” explained Domenico Praticò, MD, Professor in the Departments of Pharmacology and Microbiology and Director of the Alzheimer’s Center at LKSOM, as well as senior investigator on the study. “Very few studies, however, have examined that claim, especially in terms of the brain.”
Looking at the findings, Dr. Practico stated, “Even though canola oil is a vegetable oil, we need to be careful before we say that it is healthy. Based on the evidence from this study, canola oil should not be thought of as being equivalent to oils with proven health benefits.”
References:
https://www.ars.usda.gov/ARSUserFiles/80400525/Articles/JADA106_867-880.pdf
https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/childrens-health/the-scandal-of-infant-formula/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29920087
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/genetically-modified-food_b_2039455
What’s the best oil to use in cooking and baking?
Coconut oil, avocado oil or grass fed butter!
Coconut oil is actually bad to cook with. It rehardens when consumed becoming bad for your insides. Avocado oil is great
I have tried to enquire from you but I never received an answer.
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Have you tried vitamin E supplements, and added Zinc? good luck!
Preach it sister! I also notice how the cooking shows promote canola oil too! Shameful!
What evidence do you have for writing any of this? Sorry, that may not be something you can answer.
Just so you know if you do a search for CANOLA + MACULAR DEGENERATION it will come
up that it ruins your eyes as well. It does come from a toxic weed that grows alongside the highways
in Canada, hence the name, CAN = Canada + OIL = *C A N O L A. They put it in dried spices (YES read pls.)
and even DOG food and just about everything because it is cheap! Used for industrial processing, then
they discovered the side effects wouldn’t show up for years and no one would likely trace it back to “Can-ola”
oil, (*rapeseed oil is it’s other name). The other thing is when you see a bag of chips or other food product,
and it says, (“made from one or more of the 3 following oils, Safflower, Canola, Olive, etc.”) you can bet
your bottom dollar it is CANOLA because it is the cheapest to use and it profits them to use it.
Please read labels, please do research. We never had macular degeneration before the introduction of
these oils in the 80s. Now almost everyone uses glasses! Another important thing, those “oil blends” that
are so popular that say, “Olive Oil Blended” – if you read the ingredients it is most likely 90% canola and 10%
olive oil but as long as they tell you up front that it is “blended” then people buy it, thinking it’s really Olive Oil. NOT.
The only oils that are healthy are the ones God made, OLIVE OIL (pure!), BUTTER, LARD and COCONUT OILs
which we were media blitzed with propaganda that said “hydrogenated oils are bad”, well, my Grandma had a can of bacon grease on her stove for cooking and NO ONE WORE GLASSES. NO ONE. READ, GET INFORMED, IT’S YOUR HEALTH. OUR NURSING HOMES ARE FULL FOR A REASON. GOD BLESS EVERYONE.
penny! well said! thank you for sharing!
THANK YOU PENNY!!!! WOW who knew and what’s sad is we’ve been brainwashed into thinking we were giving our families a healthy oil. And your right, canola oil is in EVERYTHING. I don’t understand why it’s still allowed to be sold and used in food preparation. Thanks again Penny for the other info you provided.
Canola Oil : a toxic weed that grows alongside the highways in Canada, hence the name, “CAN + OIL” = CANADA OIL.
Used in industrial processing. Cheap. Search online for “CANOLA OIL + MACULAR DEGENERATION” – ruins your eyes. Because it is cheap and hard to trace back it’s side effects (they don’t show up till later), they put it in EVERYTHING. Why? Because it’s cheap. It is in DRIED SPICES (read ingredients!) and in DOG FOOD! and in bags of chips that say, “made with one or more of the following oils, Canola, etc.” Why? Because it is CHEAP and gives profits. Also you develop vision problems, etc. which feeds big Pharma. Do your research! It is not natural nor is it food for the body.
No one wore glasses before the 1980s when trans fats were introduced. My grandma had a can of bacon grease
she had on the stove she used for cooking, no one wore glasses then! All saturated fats are GOOD. You pick and choose but at least your eyes won’t deteriorate (or your doggie’s eyes!). COCONUT OIL, REAL OLIVE OIL (NO BLENDS WITH CANOLA!!!!), REAL BUTTER (NO FAKE MARGARINES!) AND DON’T FALL FOR “ORGANIC” NON-GMO CANOLA OIL ADVERTISING. Wake up, do your research, read labels. Our nursing homes are full for a reasons!!!!!
God bless everyone!
FYI – A person can wear glasses and not have macular degeneration. And yes, when your grandma used bacon grease, they had glasses even then. I agree with you but your correlation between glasses and canola oil doesn’t work.
Canola oil is made at a processing facility by slightly heating and then crushing the seed. Almost all commercial canola oil is then extracted using hexane solvent which is recovered at the end of processing. … Canola vegetable oils certified as organic are required to be from non-GMO rapeseed.
Canola oil contains virtually no erucic acid. Canola is a good choice for cooking and baking because it’s low in artery-clogging saturated fat (lower than olive oil) and high in heart-healthy mono- and polyunsaturated fats.
Canola oil comes from the crushed seeds of the canola plant. Canola is part of the Brassicaceae family. Cabbages, broccoli and cauliflower are also part of this same botanical family. Each canola plant grows from 3 to 6 feet (1 m -2 m) tall and produces beautiful yellow flowers.
what about olive oil
Olive oil is great! Just make sure not to use high heat as it oxidizes as well.
Thank you for writing this! I am severely allergic to canola oil & its hidden in EVERYTHING! I really appreciate someone trying to bring this issue into the light.
My husband grows canola which is an oilseed crop. It was originally called “rape” but because of political correctness had to have its name changed. Maybe you should truthfully investigate this crop with qualified people before spreading “your version” of the truth!!
I I Many people are using Canola oil thinking It,s the best oil I to use for frying We use both the the canola and Oliver oil sold in dark geen bottle .IhascaptionExtra Virgie Olive Oil Hopewe are not mistaken to use this ..
Good informatioto …
I noticed you didn’t post any sources or evidence to back up your statements. Not that I am not believing this could not be the case, I am just curious why you would not cite where you received this information so that your audience can read and make informative decisions rather than blindly believing what’s posted online to be true.
The sources are on the bottom and inside the article. You have to click on them
So if you used canola oil in the deep fryer what is the better oil to use?
I would use Avocado oil or coconut oil. They can stand the heat well and don’t oxidize.
Here is a canola plant