Canola oil is a quazi Canadian success story. We took a garbage product (canola seed) and we pressed it into oil and sold it to the world as canola oil. It's such a garbage oil that people don't even have a clue. It's just not a product that people have been using for a long time but do because well, it's cheap.
Countries with proud oil cultures and products know this without a doubt, this isn't a RFK conspiracy thing. Countries like Ukraine produce world class, high quality sunflower oil for the world. That is an oil that is 1000 times better for you and still much lower cost than something like extra virgin olive oil.
When I try to explain canola oil and how we use it in a restaurant sense here in Canada/USA to my friends and family in Europe, they have a mortified look and a genuine concern for our health. "We have a deep fryer where we cook 10 billion chicken wings, fish and chips, fries, nachos, calamari, dry ribs, breaded shrimp and everything else we can come up with in this oil. This oil may be changed once a week, in a quality restaurant, maybe 2-3 times a month in a lot of others"
Canola oil is bad enough and it's in way too much food, sauces, dressings and a lot more, even more so now with the cost of EVOO going through the roof. It's brutal on it's own but heating it up and altering it to the point where it's been used to cook everything described above is beyond absurd.
Things like this is not a conspiracy. It's common sense to people from literally the beginning of civilization of humans on earth and we have a long enough track record for it.
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