Canbra oils

Canbra oils are rapeseed oils derived from a Canadian variety of rapeseeds which contain very low, less than 2 percent, amounts of erucic acid, and are also low in glucosinolates. These quality traits were a breakthrough: removing erucic acid made the oil safe and palatable for human consumption, while low glucosinolates made the residual meal suitable for animal feed. The Canbra variety formed part of the foundation of modern canola-type rapeseed breeding, which transformed rapeseed from an industrial oil into one of the world’s major edible oils.