5 ms·

What products contain soybean oil? I use canola or olive oil, but not sure I've ever bought soybean oil. Is there any reason to think canola would be better?

whalesalad 5y ago
No. Virtually all seed oils are terrible for you.
politician 5y ago
Someone above said that it's usually marketed as "vegatable oil".
zach_garwood 5y ago
"Vegetable oil" seems to usually be all or mostly soy bean oil. I believe margarine is also made largely from soy, as well.
09bjb 5y ago
Canola is a branding name to distract you from the fact that the oil is technically from the nearly un-marketable "rapeseed".
- cameronh90 5y ago
  In the UK, we call it rapeseed oil.
- SquareWheel 5y ago
  Canola is a genetic evolution of rapeseed. They are not the same thing.
  - undersuit 5y ago
    Meh, it's all just Rapeseed. No one considers Granny Smith apples to be a different species from Red Delicious cultivars.
    - deleted 5y ago
      [deleted]
    - Klonoar 5y ago
      ...I mean, we do though? There's definitely differences in the products and you wouldn't necessarily sub them 1:1 in some things.
      - undersuit 5y ago
        But we don't. Canola is a trademark for a seed oil with low erucic acid, but it's still rapeseed oil, just like Cosmic Crisp is still just an apple.
        unbalancedevh 5y ago
        Being low in erucic acid is a significant difference, making it more marketable. It isn't "just" rapeseed oil. And Granny Smith apples are green. I don't think anyone would ever mistake one for a Red Delicious apple.
        undersuit 5y ago
        But it's all just apples and rapeseed oil, it's not like apples and oranges.
    - undersuit 5y ago
      I'm wrong. I disagree with the government decision that led to this but I'm still technically wrong. >In 1985, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recognized rapeseed and canola as two different species, based on their content and uses. Biology by Bureaucracy.
  - exhilaration 5y ago
    Can you provide some links about this? I always assumed that canola and rapeseed were synonymous.
    - SquareWheel 5y ago
      It looks to be covered in the opening paragraph of the Wikipedia article. > Canola are a group of rapeseed cultivars which were bred to have very low levels of erucic acid and are especially prized for use as human and animal food. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapeseed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapeseed They are of course very similar products, but it's not a mere branding difference as the parent comment suggested.
- undersuit 5y ago
  >In 1985, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recognized rapeseed and canola as two different species, based on their content and uses.

whalesalad 5y ago

No. Virtually all seed oils are terrible for you.

politician 5y ago

Someone above said that it's usually marketed as "vegatable oil".

zach_garwood 5y ago

"Vegetable oil" seems to usually be all or mostly soy bean oil. I believe margarine is also made largely from soy, as well.

09bjb 5y ago

Canola is a branding name to distract you from the fact that the oil is technically from the nearly un-marketable "rapeseed".

cameronh90 5y ago
In the UK, we call it rapeseed oil.
SquareWheel 5y ago
Canola is a genetic evolution of rapeseed. They are not the same thing.
- undersuit 5y ago
  Meh, it's all just Rapeseed. No one considers Granny Smith apples to be a different species from Red Delicious cultivars.
  - deleted 5y ago
    [deleted]
  - Klonoar 5y ago
    ...I mean, we do though? There's definitely differences in the products and you wouldn't necessarily sub them 1:1 in some things.
    - undersuit 5y ago
      But we don't. Canola is a trademark for a seed oil with low erucic acid, but it's still rapeseed oil, just like Cosmic Crisp is still just an apple.
      - unbalancedevh 5y ago
        Being low in erucic acid is a significant difference, making it more marketable. It isn't "just" rapeseed oil. And Granny Smith apples are green. I don't think anyone would ever mistake one for a Red Delicious apple.
        undersuit 5y ago
        But it's all just apples and rapeseed oil, it's not like apples and oranges.
  - undersuit 5y ago
    I'm wrong. I disagree with the government decision that led to this but I'm still technically wrong. >In 1985, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recognized rapeseed and canola as two different species, based on their content and uses. Biology by Bureaucracy.
- exhilaration 5y ago
  Can you provide some links about this? I always assumed that canola and rapeseed were synonymous.
  - SquareWheel 5y ago
    It looks to be covered in the opening paragraph of the Wikipedia article. > Canola are a group of rapeseed cultivars which were bred to have very low levels of erucic acid and are especially prized for use as human and animal food. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapeseed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapeseed They are of course very similar products, but it's not a mere branding difference as the parent comment suggested.
undersuit 5y ago
>In 1985, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recognized rapeseed and canola as two different species, based on their content and uses.