What is canola oil?
Canola oil is oil from oilseed plants (mustard family).
BAD!
Go coconut!
It was developed in Canada (hence the CAN part of the word) from oil (or rapeseed).
It’s rapeseed oil. Rape grows well in Canada. The natural variety of rape was slightly poisonous and did not yield an edible oil, but Canadian scientists developed a hybrid that eliminated the poison.
Since rape and rapeseed are rather unpleasant sounding, and unlikely to be the first choice of shoppers, they called it canola, CANadian Oil Low Acid since the poison in natural rapeseed is an acid.
Rapeseed oil. Heavily GMO... not a real good substitute for soybean squeezins. Cook in tallow or lard, olive or coconut oil, butter.... all better, and real foods.