Can Anyone Shed Light On Rapeseed Oil?

[MattA777]

Can anyone shed light on Rapeseed Oil which the Body stores as fat? Apparently it is not recognised and therefore stored as fat! -Sorry I don’t have the source of this which I came across about a year ago....

[alavahalf]

Have a glance at this... https://nutrifix.co/healthy-eating-blog/is-rapeseed-oil-healthy/

[Buenchico]

Your post suggests that you've seen one of the reports (as in the Daily Mirror, for example) that classes rapeseed oil as a 'fake food'. It seems most likely that such ideas are a load of total balls:
https://www.nhs.uk/news/food-and-diet/report-attacks-official-guidance-on-low-fat-diets/

The NHS guidance is that rapeseed is a source both of monounsaturated fats (which "help protect your heart by maintaining levels of "good" HDL cholesterol while reducing levels of "bad" LDL cholesterol in your blood") and Omega-6 fats (which, along with Omega3-fats, can "help lower the level of "bad" LDL cholesterol in your blood"):
https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/different-fats-nutrition/

So, in general, rapeseed oil is good for your health.

[Tilly2]

The cold-pressed one is best.

[LadyCG]

It has a higher smoke point so is safer to cook with than, say, olive oil.

[royfromaus]

Is that why you switched, LadyCG ...save the smoke alarm going off as often?

[mallyh]

mr mally knows dinner is ready when alarm goes off lol x

[DTCwordfan]

the trouble is, roy, she sprinkles it on......

[diddlydo]

Rapeseed oil has just about zero taste compared to the fruitiness of extra virgin olive oils. What's worse is that fields of oilseed rape are an extreme irritant - they make me cough and splutter when driving past and I'm not even asthmatic.

[Peter Pedant]

I googled is rape seed digestible
which is the point of your question - not recognised as fat

and not surprisingly the answer is yes it is digestible

https://academic.oup.com/jn/article/137/3/594/4664656

no one has made the point about erucic acid - the stuff that cured Lorenzo in Lorenso's oil - crap of course - Lorenzo died in real life
and that for the rest of us should be LOW -

and if rapeseed fat is not recognised where does it go?
I didnt bother with that one - as it is recognised

There was a fad ( geddit?) twenty years ago about non digestible fat which didnt catch on because - - - you got in exchange fatty diarrhoea ( so THAT is where it ended up!)- steatorrhoea and everyone found that MUCH worse

so in chort- - - is it OK to eat fat because I have labelled it non-fat?
n o it is not OK

[MattA777]

Thanks all for your input.
I’m thinking- did it get a bad press because Canola is part of the same family?
I tended to condemn ‘spreadable’ butters for adding rapeseed to make it so. But now it seems my poor source was wrong!

[Togo]

All rapeseed crops are from genetically modified seed. It is poisonous for humans in it's original form and was made safe by Canadian scientists in the late 1940s.

[woofgang]

yes, PP and there was also a fad for a diet supplement made IIRC from crabshells that prevented fat being digested by the body...in fact what it was was a MASSIVE incentive to go on a low fat diet because the alternative was to live in the loo. Kind of like slimmers antabuse. No I didn't try it but I did do the due diligence.

[Jackdaw33]

It got a very bad press a few years back, in Spain I think it was, where many people became ill, disfigured, and in some cases died from using the oil from a contaminated crop.