Canola Oil

[Blondie888]

I've heard some pretty mixed reviews on canola oil. I like it because it's a mildly flavored oil with a half-way decent fat profile. Is it considered paleo? And if you don't use it, what do you use instead?

[CVH]

Is it considered paleo? And if you don't use it, what do you use instead?

1-I have no Idea, none of my Paleolithic relatives are alive and none of them left me evidence of their dietary habits :D.

However, An educated guess would be no, because it is very ineffecient, energy wise and I doubt Paleowomen would use oil from a plant called RAPEseed :D (I wonder who comes up with these names.......)

I never use vegetable oils, the ones I really miss are Sesame oil and olive oil on pasta...mm.....

I use butter to fry pork chops and dip them in it, about 1/2lb when I do but I always make sure I get most of my fat from animal flesh.

[perfectfit]

I've heard some pretty mixed reviews on canola oil. I like it because it's a mildly flavored oil with a half-way decent fat profile. Is it considered paleo? And if you don't use it, what do you use instead?

I don't use it often but I keep a bottle of it on hand for times when I've run out of butter and don't feel like walking to the store to get more....especially at 5 am when I want some scrambled eggs.

[Bat Spit]

Canola has to be very heavily processed to be edible. Its bleached and deodorized because its normally rancid before it makes it out of processing. So no, not paleo.

In my kitchen I have organic sesame oil, olive oil, macadamia nut oil, coconut oil, and organic non-hydrogenated lard. (and butter, I admit) I have jars of palm oil and ghee that I keep forgetting to learn to use.

[Wolflady]

I dont know how you think about W.A.Price, but in his book 'Nourishing Traditions', there is info about all kinds of oil and also canola-oil.
He writes that there are transfattyacids in it and it creates a lack of vitamin E. (among other things, you need this vitamin for your cadio-vascular-system)

[ProteusOne]

I use it when I don't want an oil to interfere with what I'm cooking or making. But this is almost none at all.

[waywardsis]

Nut oils are better, and very mild.

[frankly]

The Canola wikipedia entry is a good source of info (click here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canola) ). It can't really be considered paleo, it wouldn't have been practical to extract and refine it in paleolithic times. I don't use it in cooking, I prefer to stick to animal fats.

[Hybrid]

I avoid canola.

[Allymich]

I don't use Canola oil (rapeseed oil )myself... I;ve heard bad things about it and the fact that I see it in low cost, poor quality products in the supermarket makes me even more suspicious but I'm probably imagining things....

here is a link in something I found:
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/c/canolaoil.htm

[perfectfit]

The Canola wikipedia entry is a good source of info (click here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canola) ). It can't really be considered paleo, it wouldn't have been practical to extract and refine it in paleolithic times. I don't use it in cooking, I prefer to stick to animal fats.

Thank you for the link frankly. I have a half a bottle of canola oil left and I am going to dump it down the drain.
I never knew it could affect thyroid levels and hypothyroidism runs rampant in my family.
I think I will stick with butter and lard from now on.