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Once considered a specialty crop in Canada, canola has evolved into a major North American cash crop. Canada and the United States produce between 7 and 10 million metric tons (tonnes) of canola seed per year. Annual Canadian exports total 3 to 4 million metric tons of the seed, 700,000 metric tons of canola oil and 1 million metric tons of canola meal. The United States is a net consumer of canola oil. The major customers of canola seed are Japan, Mexico, China and Pakistan, while the bulk of canola oil and meal goes to the United States, with smaller amounts shipped to Mexico, China and Europe.<\/p>\n

Canola was developed through conventional plant breeding from rapeseed, an oilseed plant with roots in ancient civilization. The word “rape” in\u00a0rapeseed comes from the Latin word “rapum<\/i>,” meaning turnip.\u00a0Turnip,\u00a0rutabaga,cabbage, Brussels sprouts,\u00a0mustard and many other vegetables are related to the two canola species commonly grown:\u00a0Brassica napus<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Brassica rapa<\/i>. The negative associations with the word “rape” in North America resulted in the more marketing-friendly name “Canola”.<\/p>\n

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Bottle of Canola Oil from Canada<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Canola field in\u00a0Temora, New South Wales<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Hundreds of years ago, Asians and Europeans used rapeseed oil in lamps. As time progressed, people employed it as a cooking oil and added it to foods. Its use was limited until the development of steam power, when machinists found rapeseed oil clung to water- and steam-washed metal surfaces better than other lubricants.\u00a0World War II\u00a0saw high demand for the oil as a lubricant for the rapidly increasing number of steam engines in naval and merchant ships. When the war blocked European and Asian sources of rapeseed oil, a critical shortage developed and Canada began to expand its limited rapeseed production.<\/p>\n

After the war, demand declined sharply and farmers began to look for other uses for the plant and its products. Edible rapeseed oil extracts were first put on the market in 1956-1957, but these suffered from several unacceptable characteristics. Rapeseed oil had a distinctive taste and a disagreeable greenish colour due to the presence of\u00a0chlorophyll. It also contained a high concentration of\u00a0erucic acid, suspected of causing cancer if ingested in large amounts. Feed meal from the rapeseed plant was not particularly appealing to livestock, due to high levels of sharp-tasting compounds called\u00a0glucosinolates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once considered a specialty crop in Canada, canola has evolved into a major North American cash crop. Canada and the United States produce between 7 and 10 million metric tons (tonnes) of canola seed per year. Annual Canadian exports total 3 to 4 million metric tons of the seed, 700,000 metric tons of canola oil […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5536,"template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[119],"product_tag":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngagrofarmltd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/5506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngagrofarmltd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngagrofarmltd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngagrofarmltd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngagrofarmltd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngagrofarmltd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=5506"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngagrofarmltd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=5506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}