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Canola Oil; EEEKKK!
Topic Started: Aug 25 2007, 09:56 PM (118 Views)
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Canola Oil
It's amazing to me...The more research I do, the more I see a relationship between the food we eat and fatal diseases. Canola oil is no exception. Now comes information that Canola Oil is the suspected causative agent for Scrapie, a viral disease transmitted to cattle who were fed rendered sheep infected with Scrapie. Both Scrapie and Mad Cow Disease destroy the brain's ability to function. They literally eat the brain away, causing blindness, loss of mind and erratic behaviour.
Canola oil's real name is "LEAR" oil (Low Erucic Acid Rape). it is more commonly known as "rape oil," a semi-drying oil that is used as a lubricant, fuel, soap and synthetic rubber base, and as an illuminant to give color pages in magazines their slick look. In short it is an industrial oil that does not belong in the human body. It is typically referred to in light industry as a penetrating oil. Back in the 1980's, rape oil was widely used in animal feeds in England and throughout Europe. It was banned in 1991. Since then, Scrapie in sheep has totally disappeared. While that's good for Europeans, it is bad for Americans because the problem is now ours.
Rape seed oil (Canola oil) is widely used in thousands of processed foods...with the blessings of our own government. Canola oil was first developed in Canada. It's proponents claim that due to genetic engineering and irradiation, it is no longer rape oil, but "canola" (Canadian oil). They also claim it is completely safe, pointing to it's unsaturated structure and digestibility. Although, I could not verify it, it is claimed the Canadian government paid the FDA the sum of $50 million dollars to have canola oil placed on the GRAS list (Generally Recognized As Safe). However it was done, a new industry was created.
The truth is, however, that rape is the most toxic of all food oil plants. Not even insects will eat it. No wonder farmers like growing it. It turns out that rape is a member of the mustard family of plants, and is the source for the chemical agent, mustard gas, which causes blistering on skin and lungs when inhaled. Mustard Gas was banned after WWI for this very reason.
Studies of canola oil done on rats indicate many problems. Rats developed fatty degeneration of heart, kidney, adrenals and thyroid gland. When the canola oil was withdrawn from their diet, the deposits dissolved, but scar tissue remained on the organs. Why were no studies done on humans before the FDA placed it on the GRAS list? Consumed in food, Canola oil depresses the immune system, causing it to "go to sleep."
Canola oil is high in glycosides which cause health problems by blocking (inhibiting) enzyme function. It's effects are accumulative, taking years to show up. One possible effect of long term use is the destruction of the protective coating surrounding nerves called the mylin sheath. When this protective sheath is gone, our nerves short-circuit causing erratic, uncontrollable movements.
To test the industrial penetrating strength of canola oil, soak a towel in both canola oil and regular vegetable oil. Pre-treat and wash the towel in your clothes washer and compare the area the two oils occupied...you will notice an oil stain remains on the area soaked in canola oil. It is so durable, it could take several washings to completely remove. Now if this is how canola oil penetrates the fabric of a towel, what damage can it do in our body?
Because canola oil is so cheap, it is now widely used in the food industry. If you are curious, just read a few food labels the next time you are in the grocery store. A good example can be found with commercially prepared peanut butter. In order to give peanut butter it's spreadability, Jiffy, Peter Pan and Skippy brands remove ALL of the natural peanut oil and replace it with canola oil. Natural peanut butter should only have peanuts and salt listed in the ingredients. If you want to use natural peanut butter, it's available in most stores next to the canola peanut butter. Stir the contents to mix the oil and peanuts together then store in the refrigerator. The cold temperature will prevent the peanut oil from separating. Best of all, you will have eliminated at least one source of a potential food hazard. Food consumers have headaches enough, without worrying about a toxic plant oil being added to their food. The problem is you will find canola oil in bread, margarines, and all manner of processed foods. But the consumer is king. Be informed and make it a practice to read what goes into your food. Avoid using canola as a cooking oil and salad oil. It is not a healthy oil.

[The information is based on 'Mansfeld's Encyclopedia of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops' (P. Hanelt & IPK (eds.) 2001, Springer). © of the electronic version: IPK Gatersleben.]

Family: Cruciferae Juss., Gen. Pl.: 237, nom. cons. (= Brassicaceae) APN
Accepted name: Brassica napus subsp. napus
Synonyms:

= Brassica napus L., Sp. Pl. (1753) 666, p.p. APN TL2
= Brassica oleifera Moench, Methodus (1794) 253 APN
= Brassica praecox Waldst. & Kit. apud Schult., Obs. bot. (1809) 131
= Brassica napus var. oleifera (Moench) Delile, Mém. Bot. Descr. Egypte 4 (1813) 19
= Brassica campestris var. pabularia DC., Syst. 2 (1821) 589 APN
= Napus oleifera (Moench) Schimp. & Spenn. in Spenn., Fl. Frib. 3 (1829) 940
= Brassica napus var. pabularia (DC.) Rchb. in Mössler, Handb. Gewächskde. ed. 3, 2 (1833) 1220
= Brassica rapa subsp. napus (L.) Schübl. & Mart., Fl. Würtbg. (1834) 438
= Brassica campestris var. napus (L.) Babingt., Man. Brit. Bot. ed. 8 (1881) 31
= Brassica rapa subsp. napus (L.) Briq., Prodr. Fl. Cors. 2, 1 (1913) 74
= Brassica napus var. arvensis (Duc. in Lam.) Thell. f. annua (Schübl. & Mart.) Thell. in Hegi 4, 1 (1918)
= Brassica napus var. arvensis (Duc. in Lam.) Thell. f. biennis (Schübl. & Mart.) Thell. in Hegi 4, 1 (1918)
= Brassica napus subsp. oleifera Metzg. apud Sinskaya in Bull. appl. bot., genet. selekc. 19, 3 (1928)245
= Brassica napus subsp. pabularia (DC.) Janchen, Kl. Fl. Nied.-Österr. (1953) 54


Common names:

Chin. xi yang you cai
Du. koolzaad
E. Argentine canola (Canada)
E. colza
E. Hanover salad
E. Leaf rape
E. rape
E. rape seed
E. Siberian kale
Fin. rapsi [source: Kress 2001]
Fr. chou à faucher
Fr. colza
Fr. navette
G. Raps
G. Schnittkohl
It. colza
Russ. кольза [kol'za]
Russ. рапс [raps]
Swed. kohlraps
Swed. raps


Wild distribution: Rape is known only as cultivated plant, which sometimes escapes from cultivation and occurs as weed.

Full text information:

Rape is a valuable oil crop with rapidly increasing importance. The oil is either used directly for nutrition, but mostly for margarine production. Sometimes it is used for technical purposes or processed to methylic esters, which substitute benzin. Modern breeding reduced the content of glucosinolates, which makes the protein-rich oilcake more suitable as feed for ruminants. The composition of the fatty acids is also subject to recent breeding work. Important aims for breeding are cultivars with low content of erucic acid and high content of oleic acid, but recently varieties have been selected with high content of erucic acid for technical purposes. Formerly rape was frequently used as fodder crop, and sometimes the young sprouts are used as a vegetable. In older literature the subsp. napus is sometimes confused with B. rapa, and reports on its widespread cultivation in India seem doubtful. Leaf rape is a distinct variety (B. napus L. var. pabularia (DC.) Rchb. in Mössler, Handb. Gewächskde. ed. 3, 2 (1833) 1220) of subsp. napus, which has a very leafy shoot. Formerly it was used more often as an winter-annual vegetable (Leaf rape, Siberian kale, Hanover salad; G. Schnittkohl; Fr. chou à faucher; Chin. xi yang you cai).
The first reliable reports of subsp. napus date to the herbals of the 16th and 17th cent. The subspecies may have originated in the western Mediterranean area, where the diploid progenitors B. oleracea and B. rapa s.l. have an overlapping distribution. Recently there have been produced experimental allopolyploids, which have been used in breeding programmes for oilseed rape, but also for the selection of new vegetable cultivars.


Scientific Name: Brassica kaber (DC.) L.C. Wheeler- TSN: 509696
Taxonomy and Nomenclature
Kingdom: Plantae
Rank: Species Accepted name :Sinapis arvensis


Vernacular name(s): canola [English]
charlock mustard [English]
kaber mustard [English]
rapeseed [English]
wild mustard [English]


Taxonomic Status:
Current Standing: not accepted - synonym

Data Quality Indicators:

Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met


References
Expert(s):John Kartesz: Biota of North America Project (BONAP), University of North Carolina



Other sources: Source: The PLANTS Database database (version 4.0.4); (National Plant Data Center, NRCS, USDA. Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA. http://plants.usda.gov)
Source: The PLANTS Database database (version 5.1.1); (National Plant Data Center, NRCS, USDA. Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA. http://plants.usda.gov)



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Improved production of biosurfactant by a Pseudomonas aeruginosa mutant using vegetable oil refinery wastes.

Raza ZA, Rehman A, Khan MS, Khalid ZM.

Polymer Chemistry Laboratory, National Centre of Excellence in Physical Chemistry, University of Peshawar, 25210, Peshawar, Pakistan.

Biosurfactant production by Pseudomonas aeruginosa EBN-8 mutant was studied in shake flasks on separate wastes from canola, soybean and corn oil refineries. Of the substrates tested, canola oil refinery waste (COD=20 g l(-1)) supplemented with sodium nitrate (at COD/N=20) showed the best microbial growth (4.50 g l(-1)) and rhamnolipid production (8.50 g l(-1)), at 10 d of incubation with the specific growth rate of 0.316 h(-1) and specific product yield of 0.597 g g(-1) h. Its cell-free supernatant showed the critical micelle dilution (CMD) of 150 and surface tension (ST) of 28.5 mN m(-1).

PMID: 16491304 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]


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Napins, 2S albumins, are major allergens in oilseed rape and turnip rape.

Puumalainen TJ, Poikonen S, Kotovuori A, Vaali K, Kalkkinen N, Reunala T, Turjanmaa K, Palosuo T.

From the National Public Health Institute, Helsinki.

BACKGROUND: Children with IgE-mediated allergy to foods frequently react to seeds of oilseed rape (Brassica napus ssp. oleifera) and turnip rape (Brassica rapa ssp. oleifera) in skin prick tests (SPTs). Sensitization pathways are not known. OBJECTIVE: We identified possible major allergens in oilseed rape and turnip rape using sera from 72 atopic children (mean age, 3.3 years) with positive SPT responses to oilseed rape and turnip rape. METHODS: Allergens from oilseed rape and turnip rape seed extracts were purified by using gel filtration and cation exchange chromatography and characterized by means of reversed-phase chromatography, N-terminal amino acid sequencing, and matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry. IgE binding of sera from 72 children with positive SPT reactions to oilseed rape and turnip rape and 72 age- and sex-matched atopic control subjects with negative SPT responses were analyzed by means of IgE ELISA and immunoblotting. In vivo reactivity of the purified allergens was tested with SPTs in 6 children. RESULTS: In IgE immunoblotting and IgE ELISA major reactivity was to a group of homologous, approximately 9.5- to 14.5-kd proteins. These allergens were identified as 2S albumins, also known as napins, by means of N-terminal amino acid sequencing. In ELISA approximately 80% of the patients had IgE to purified napins from both plants. In SPTs purified napins caused positive reactions in all 6 children tested. CONCLUSIONS: This study shows that 2S albumins in oilseed rape and turnip rape are new potential food allergens. Further studies are needed to clarify the routes of exposure and mechanisms of sensitization.

PMID: 16461144 [PubMed - in process]


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Codon-modifications and an endoplasmic reticulum-targeting sequence additively enhance expression of an Aspergillus phytase gene in transgenic canola.

Peng RH, Yao QH, Xiong AS, Cheng ZM, Li Y.

Shanghai Key Laboratory of Agricultural Genetics and Breeding, Agro-Biotechnology Research Center, Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 2901 Beidi Rd, Shanghai, People's Republic China, yaoquanhong@yahoo.com.

Transgenic plants offer advantages for biomolecule production because plants can be grown on a large scale and the recombinant macromolecules can be easily harvested and extracted. We introduced an Aspergillus phytase gene into canola (Brassica napus) (line 9412 with low erucic acid and low glucosinolates) by Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. Phytase expression in transgenic plant was enhanced with a synthetic phytase gene according to the Brassica codon usage and an endoplasmic reticulum (ER) retention signal KDEL that confers an ER accumulation of the recombinant phytase. Secretion of the phytase to the extracellular fluid was also established by the use of the tobacco PR-S signal peptide. Phytase accumulation in mature seed accounted for 2.6% of the total soluble proteins. The enzyme can be glycosylated in the seeds of transgenic plants and retain a high stability during storage. These results suggest a commercial feasibility of producing a stable recombinant phytase in canola at a high level for animal feed supplement and for reducing phosphorus eutrophication problems.

PMID: 16249870 [PubMed - in process]
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