Question by thom t: Is it fair to replace peanut oil with canola oil in peanut butter?
THe labels on peanut butter say "Vegetable oil". I read that this canola, and the peanut oil is taken out and sold at a high price. Also, is canola unhealthy? See:
""Beware of Canola ...
Question by thom t: Is it fair to replace peanut oil with canola oil in peanut butter?
THe labels on peanut butter say “Vegetable oil”. I read that this canola, and the peanut oil is taken out and sold at a high price. Also, is canola unhealthy? See:
“”Beware of Canola Oil, Canola Oil is an Industrial Oil, Not Fit For Human Consumption. … Some typical and possible side effects include loss of vision, …”
www.karinya.com/canola.htm – 15k
Best answer:
Answer by Academy& Clockworthy
Then it’d be ‘Canola Butter’
Everything can kill you nowadays. If it’s not fit for human consumption, why is it everywhere?
What do you think? Answer below!
There’s nothing inherently terrible about canola oil (although it’s not exactly all that healthy for you either), and it had been used in peanut butter for years. Even if you make your own peanut butter, most recipes still call for at least some canola oil – although peanut oil isn’t exactly expensive to buy, and doesn’t really taste much like peanuts anyway. I use it a lot for stir-fry, since it has a fairly high smoke point.
The article you refer to is terribly biased. To even suggest that mustard gas comes from rape oil is absurd. It’s actually from a totally different chemical, although still from the mustard plant. The chemical composition is C4 H8 Cl2 S. Have you tasted any sulphur in your peanut butter lately? Or any chlorine? As for it coming from a poisonous plant, so does rhubarb – it’s part of the Deadly Nightshade family. Tasty, though. As for it being “derived from the mustard family and is considered a toxic and poisonous weed…” – it can’t be a weed. Weeds, by definition, are simply any plant that isn’t cultivated or wanted. Dandelions aren’t weeds if you are growing them deliberately – say, to make dandelion wine. As for it being from a poisonous plant (as if it makes any real difference), that also includes all of the mustard family – seen anyone keel over from eating a hotdog with mustard lately?
As for the claim that it soaks into cloth readily and is hard to clean supposedluy meaning that it is bad for you – olive oil does the same thing. Does this mean that olive oil is now bad for our health? I think not! It’s an oil. Oils can be used for lubricants. That doesn’t mean that they’re necessarily all that bad for your health. 2300 years ago, the Romans used, beef fat as an axle lubricant, and the Greeks often used olive oil for gears and pulleys. Just because it lubricates doesn’t mean that it has no other uses.
And the problem with Mad Cow Disease wasn’t anything to do with oil, it was because of basically feeding cows (an herbivore) the byproducts of other, slaughtered cows. Cannibalism, and eating any meat at all, is not something their digestive and immune systems are capable of handling.
This is only a small synopsis of the article, but it seems more than enough to me to be able to discount almost all that it stated. I have found no citations that I can research, just the odd name with nothing to indicate what their expertise might be. I have real difficulty trusting in people who use sensationalism to put forth such a message. I wonder if it’s because just using the facts won’t help their cause?
Good luck!