Word: canola
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...extra-virgin olive oil as a main cooking oil. If you want a neutral-tasting oil, use expeller-pressed organic canola oil. High-oleic versions of sunflower and safflower oil are also acceptable...
...diners want such stomach-turning information. But Beall, 55, the son of a nuclear engineer and himself a college dropout and restaurant-industry lifer, is giving it to them--and more. In November, Ruby Tuesday became the nation's largest casual-dining chain to start frying foods in canola oil, which is free of trans fats. The company posts nutrition tips on every table. After just a few months of testing, Beall this spring unveiled an expanded "smart eating" menu featuring fish, fresh vegetables and lean proteins such as turkey. He has ambitious plans to turn the website into...
According to Kang, it is difficult to consume the right amounts of healthy fat because practically all vegetable oil—except canola and olive oil—contains high amounts of omega 6 fatty acid...
...Iowa’s wheat fields were contaminated. North of the border, in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, organic farmers were so affected that they are in the process of filing a class-action lawsuit against Monsanto for making it impossible for them to grow GM-free organic canola on their land. Canadian wheat farmers are also threatening a similar suit...
...problem is not simply caused by weak regulation in North America: the British government has also acknowledged the danger. In December last year the National Institute for Agricultural Botany declared that no GM canola could be grown in England without contaminating the entire British crop, including the fields producing organic or non-GM produce. In addition, the British government asserted that natural canola could not be grown for at least a year on a field where engineered canola had been grown previously due to the contamination from residual genetically engineered canola seeds...