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The name has an interesting history. The oil extracted from the seed is Canola. The plant is LEAR: Low Eurisic (sp?) Acid Rape. (All food oils are made up from fatty acids, eurisic acid is one of them.) LEAR is a hybrid form of common rape developed in Canada for the specific purpose of having a very low eurisic acid content. Rape is well suited for the soil and climate of Canada's enormous expanse of flat land but it was believed that rape's high eurisic acid content was harmful to human health. A fortune was spent on hybridization of rape and promotion of LEAR. It turns out eurisic acid is not harmful. In fact it can be used medicinally for some diseases. Since the development of LEAR was a Canadian project, the oil was named Canola - Canadian Oil.
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