rapeseed

And for anyone who's not familiar, rapeseed oil is sold as canola oil in the US and Canada.

Refined and extra-light grades of olive oil have a higher smoke point than canola (rapeseed) oil, actually.

They do mention rapeseed oil, and it's one of the best along with olive oil.

Secondly, for Americans at least, they don't mention canola/rapeseed oil at all, and that's by far the most commonly used here.

Here in Sweden, however, it's easy to find and buy organic cold pressed rapeseed oil.

Wasn't there a huge scandal (with lots of deaths) in the eighties about rapeseed oil, that turned out to be something else?

Radishes, however, are just in the same family, while rapeseed shares the same genus.

I was speaking of canola/rapeseed oil when I said the evidence that it is healthy have all but evaporated.

Those articles don't seem to talk about canola/rapeseed oil, at all.

You posted a link to a 30-year-old event, and for which there was an hypothesis that it could be linked to the genetic modifications of a rapeseed.

Canadian-grown rapeseed oil was only called Canola in the 1970s, and (at least according to wiki) cultivation of rapeseed for oil only began in the 19th century - a far cry from the 17th century mentioned in the article!

I was of the impression that rapeseed oil was unhealthy compared to e.g.

As a personal anecdote along these lines and since discovering my own sensitivities to canola (and rapeseed oils in general), I've learned that simply calling it a "sensitivity" doesn't always convey the need to avoid certain ingredients.

I'm pretty sure canola is not the most common used in America, soy (sold as "vegetable oil") is; and, as others have noted, they do address canola by its other name, rapeseed.

Obviously all the oil underground came from plants initially, you can skip a lot of trouble and harvest your sunflower seeds and rapeseed seeds right on the surface and skip all that "bury it for a few million years then tunnel down and dig it up"

I learned recently that "Canola" is actually a portmanteau of "Canada" and "oil", named such as calling your product "rapeseed" was seen as a liability.

Rapeseed, as far as I know, is always unhealthy, no matter how you process it.

Canola is actually a specific cultivar of Rapeseed.