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Old Sat, May-30-15, 00:48
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Default rapeseed seeds (not rapeseed oil / canola)

I know that rapeseed oil / Canola has a bad press. But I recently bought a seed mix in an organic food shop that contains rapeseed seeds.

Does anyone know if the rapeseed seeds should be good to eat, even if the oil is not? My understanding was that Canola needs an industrial production process because the seeds contain toxins. But then why are the seeds on sale in an edible seed mix
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The main toxin in rapeseed was erucic acid, but that has mostly been bred out in the seeds used for human consumption.

http://www.westonaprice.org/health-...-great-con-ola/

This has more in it than I really want to know about canola.

Personally, I wouldn't worry about the seeds. I wouldn't consider them a selling point, though. A lot of people probably see "canola seeds" and see that same healthy sheen that people see when they read chia, flax, or hemp seed.
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The main toxin in rapeseed was erucic acid, but that has mostly been bred out in the seeds used for human consumption.

http://www.westonaprice.org/health-...-great-con-ola/

This has more in it than I really want to know about canola.

Personally, I wouldn't worry about the seeds. I wouldn't consider them a selling point, though. A lot of people probably see "canola seeds" and see that same healthy sheen that people see when they read chia, flax, or hemp seed.


Thanks, good info.

I agree having read it that the seeds are probably nothing much to worry about, but I probably would not go out of my way to buy that mix again either.
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I once read that to have them edible for human consumption they created GMO rapeseeds.
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I once read that to have them edible for human consumption they created GMO rapeseeds.
Canola had the erucic acid bred out of it the old-fashioned way, mendelian cross-breeding, to make it edible. No GM canola is grown in Europe, but in North America, non-organic canola has been GM so that herbicides won't kill it, for the last 20 years.

Rapeseed is in the mustard family, and both are allergens for some.
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