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Rapeseed field in the mountains on a gray day (lemmy.zip)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/japanpics

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Aka Canola.

There's a town here in Canada that used to call themselves "The Land of Rape and Honey" but changed their slogan.. for reasons. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/22/canadian-town-tisdale-land-of-rape-and-honey-slogan

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Canola is slight different from rapeseed, and was created at the University of Manitoba. The name 'canola' is a portmanteau of Canada and the initialism of 'Oil Low Acid'.

[–] aeronmelon 6 points 6 months ago

TIL.

[–] Cort 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Is there very much rapeseed farmed today that is not canola?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Just read it on Wikipedia:

All rapeseed farmed today is 0- or 00-rapeseed (free from erucic acid). But not all is canola. Canola is a summer rape. After that breakthrough they created a 0-winter-rape in Gießen and Göttingen (Germany) called "Lesira".

Other brand names are 'Liglandor’, ‘Lindora’, ‘Liropa’ and ‘Elena'.