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[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 month ago (3 children)

One of the worse named plants of all time, thanks Latin.

And that's why we renamed it "Canada oil" aka Canola

[–] bubblewrap@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago

Canada Oil Low Acid, to be precise.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 7 points 1 month ago

Well, part of the reason. "Canola" is really only the edible variant, which is now a bit more than fifty years old. Older cultivars contained large amounts of erucic acid, which apparently is neither tasty nor very good for you.

I don't know whether anyone still grows the non-canola rapeseed cultivars as a cash crop.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Thanks, I could not understand what they were talking about 😂

spoilerI thought this was about Loblaws "raping" their consumer's wallets rather than getting it "raped" by Amazon or something.