Rapeseed field in the mountains on a gray day

Rocketpoweredgorilla, 27 days ago

Aka Canola.

There’s a town here in Canada that used to call themselves “The Land of Rape and Honey” but changed their slogan… for reasons. theguardian.com/…/canadian-town-tisdale-land-of-r…

Albbi, 27 days ago

Canola is slight different from rapeseed, and was created at the University of Manitoba. The name ‘canola’ is a portmanteau of Canada and the initialism of ‘Oil Low Acid’.

aeronmelon, 27 days ago

TIL.

Cort, 25 days ago

Is there very much rapeseed farmed today that is not canola?

wieson, 21 days ago (edited 21 days ago)

Just read it on Wikipedia:

All rapeseed farmed today is 0- or 00-rapeseed (free from erucic acid). But not all is canola. Canola is a summer rape. After that breakthrough they created a 0-winter-rape in Gießen and Göttingen (Germany) called “Lesira”.

Other brand names are ‘Liglandor’, ‘Lindora’, ‘Liropa’ and ‘Elena’.