Canola Oil: From Ship to Table.
Canola Oil: From Ship to Table.
Among the most widely traded and consumed modern foods in the world is canola or rapeseed oil. Thousands of tons are sold annually, with Canada being the main producer.
Rapeseed is a seed from which oil is extracted and was formerly widely used in Europe and Asia. Although its use was not for food but for industrial purposes, it was used as a lubricant for machinery and ships.
During World War II, large-scale production began in Canada and it enjoyed good demand for several years, but after the machinery was replaced by diesel engines, demand began to decline.
Having large reserves of this product and being well-positioned in the market, Canada and other producers had a surplus that they couldn't move. Considering a food use for rapeseed oil was very ingenious from a commercial point of view.
Rapeseed oil was not at all desirable for consumption due to its high content of erucic acid and eicosenoic acid, both harmful to health; the sulfur content of the seeds didn't help either. Studies conducted on mice showed that it caused heart failure.
And in due time, science worked its miracle. Canadian scientists developed a variety of seeds with desirable characteristics for consumption and good flavor, as well as a low level of acids. This is how, in the 1970s, Canola oil emerged, "Canadian Oil, Low Acid," or low-acid Canadian oil.
Today, this oil is consumed in thousands of food products worldwide, such as frozen pizzas and cookies. This is how human ingenuity provided a solution for a product stalled by a change in market conditions.
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•Reference Links:
*Rapeseed oil: the story of a lubricant that dreamed of becoming food
*How Canada invented rapeseed oil
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Aceite de Canola. Del barco a la mesa.
Entre los alimentos modernos más comercializados y consumidos del mundo se encuentra el aceite de canola o colza. Anualmente se venden miles de toneladas del mismo teniendo como principal productor a Canadá.
La colza es una semilla de la que se extrae aceite y antiguamente era muy utilizada en Europa y Asia. Aunque su uso no era alimenticio sino industrial, se empleaba como lubricante de las maquinas y barcos.
Durante la segunda guerra mundial se comienza a producir en Canadá a gran escala y tuvo buena demanda por varios años , pero tras ser reemplazadas las maquinarias por motores diesel la demanda comenzó a bajar.
Al tener grandes reservas de este producto y estar bien posicionado en el mercado, Canadá y otros productores tenian un excedente que no podían mover. Considerar una salida alimentaria para el aceite de colza fue muy ingenioso desde un punto de vista comercial.
El aceite de colza no era para nada deseable para el consumo por su alto contenido de ácido erúcico y ácido eicosenoico ambos nocivos para la salud, el contenido de azufre de las semillas tampoco ayudaba. En estudios realizados en ratones provocaba fallo cardiaco.
Y en su momento la ciencia hizo el milagro.Cientificos canadienses desarrollaron una variedad de semillas con características deseables para el consumo y buen sabor, asi como un bajo nivel de ácidos. Fue asi como en los años 70 surge el Aceite de Canola «Canadian Oil, Low Acid» o aceite canadiense bajo en ácidos.
Hoy se consume este aceite en miles de productos alimenticios por todo el mundo como pizzas congeladas y galletas . Así fue como el ingenio humano dio salida a un producto estancado por un cambio en las condiciones de mercado.
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•Enlaces de Consulta:
*Aceite de colza:historia de un lubricante que soñó con ser alimento
*Así inventó Canadá el aceite de colza
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