The canola plant is a *variety* of rapeseed. http://www.northerncanola.com/canolainfo/history.asp
or this from the FDA: http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/ANSWERS/ANS00198.html "FDA is proposing to allow an edible oil extracted from rapeseed to be called canola oil. The proposal, published in the Federal Register on Sept.16, (1988) would recognize canola oil as an alternate common or usual name for low erucic acid rapeseed oil... <snip> ...The proposal to permit it to be called canola oil responds to a petition from the Canola Council of Canada. Virtually all the LEAR oil used in the United States is imported from Canada, the world's leading producer of rapeseed. " Not quite as different as corn oil is from olive oil... at all. And, ahem, pretty obvious why they changed the name, despite your mockery. I'm always distrustful when someone doesn't sign their posts. Just curious--k5farms-- are you a canola grower? This list isn't much for tolerating misleading information. Someone will always correct you. This time it was me. Peace, Quinn ----- Original Message ----- From: k5farms To: biofuel@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 12:45 AM Subject: [biofuel] Re: oil crop yields --- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, Hakan Falk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/nexus/Brassica_rapeseed_nex.html > > Canola and rapeseed is the same, Q: Olive oil comes from olives, peanut oil from peanuts, sunflower oil from sunflowers, but where does canola oil come from--is canola oil rapeseed oil? A: No. Canola oil comes from canola seed. Canola is the name given to a very healthy oil that was developed from rapeseed. But it is not rapeseed oil and has vastly different fatty acid and other properties than rapeseed oil. Canola was developed using traditional plant breeding methods to remove undesirable qualities in rapeseed. In terms of their properties, canola oil is as different from rapeseed oil as olive oil is as different from corn oil. www.canola.org And their yields do vary, as do their oil content, but close enough for who its for, eh? the Americans did not like the name association. > > Hakan > Wheres the link for that? What Americans? The Canadian Americans, Mexican Americans, Latin Americans, Southern Americans. Come now, whom exactly are you trying to defer? Another reason for Canola, it was a good marketing move, something your going to see a lot more of. Its Canadian Oil, Canola. something positive for their farmers and using a Nationalist name to to also show they're proud of their country. Oil content has more to do with precipitation,weather, seed variety, land/soil structure, time of year planted, weed interaction, etc. best to check with seed producers for best optimization in ones own neck of the woods, to get a more specific oil/yield idea. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at MyInks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US & Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/mOAaAA/3exGAA/qnsNAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
