Contraindications
The oil food use of rapeseed - unlike olive oil, from the many nutritional properties - has always been a hotly debated topic and this probably also because of his past in street lighting and also to its European use as "green" fuel in the 60s. Nevertheless, the rapeseed oil is considered edible by the mid-nineteenth century, while not agreed the results of studies conducted on the matter.
To be put on trial - as with regard also palm oil, from the many contraindications - are the erucic acid: this toxic lipid seems, saturated fatty acids and, especially, in fact, that has negative effects on growth , in addition to representing a dangerous risk factor for the cardiovascular tract health and for that of the liver. Some scholars have, however, been able to develop a type of rapeseed oil low in erucic acid content of: this new variety takes the name of "canola oil" but - also in this case - it is an oil refined considered of low level and, therefore, potentially harmful to health. Moreover, as if this were not enough, canola oil comes mainly from the much-discussed GMO productions, which are apparently also dangerously causing the death of bees.
Where is it
Although canola oil is a food subject to the restrictions, you should be careful to avoid consuming it without meaning: it can in fact be found in margarine, soups, various sweets, biscuits, pies, croissants, bread sticks, products frozen, canned fish and vegetables and, more generally, in fried foods, in packaged foods and by poor quality baked goods. Finally, eye to spending made in discount stores and at meals in bars, restaurants, pubs and the like, which could use it.
