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How It's Made - Canola Oil

Panos Egglezos · 4.5M views · 2012-03-11 · 5:01

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Overview

A short 'How It's Made' television segment showing the industrial process of turning canola seed into cooking oil. It walks through pressing, solvent extraction and refining steps.

On Hacker News

Mostly used by seed-oil skeptics in nutrition threads as a visual argument that canola oil is heavily processed.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2021–2023

Topics

Manufacturing & industrial processesCooking & foodNutrition & diet science
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how it's madecanola oilseed oilsfood processingrefining

What people said

hammock · 2023-07 · Criticism

“Refined oil” has a specific documented definition, and to be clear I’m talking about chemical refinement. See here: [VIDEO] The distinction you are making is irrelevant and trollsome

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gruez · 2023-07 · Reference

> “Refined oil” has a specific documented definition Care to link it? > and to be clear I’m talking about chemical refinement. See here: [VIDEO] What makes it "chemical"? Does the refinement process chemically alter the molecular structure of the lipid molecules?

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docandrew · 2022-11 · Criticism

[VIDEO] “How Its Made - Canola Oil” This was all I needed to see to know I don’t want to consume it ever again.

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