Rapeseed oil is extracted from the seeds of the rape plant, a flowering plant that belongs to the Brassica family that includes produce favorites such as broccoli, cauliflower, and cabbage.

Our grannies may have reached for the butter or lard but, since the 1970s, cooking with oil has become the norm. Olive oil became the staple in our kitchen cupboards as we became more aware of the ...

Vast fields of yellow spreading through eastern North Carolina have been drawing attention, from rubbernecking motorists to wedding parties. It’s a crop that produces a seed made into an oil used to ...

This afternoon I picked up this weird story about a little town in Saskatchewan that is considering changing it’s town slogan from “The Land of Rape and Honey.” As I noted in the post, “rape” in this ...

I spent a fair portion of my last vacation driving around England and, in mid- to late April, the countryside's distinguishing characteristic was field upon rolling field of blindingly bright yellow ...

Soy protein dominates the plant-based space. Ninety-five percent of all plant-based proteins, with the exception of wheat, come from this legume – which originally hails from East Asia. Soy protein ...

Rapeseed doesn't just contain oil but high-quality protein, too. However, protein extracts from rapeseed have an intense, bitter off-taste. A team led by food chemist Thomas Hofmann has now identified ...

In June 2022, at a time when swathes of fertile land in southern Ukraine had recently fallen under Russian military occupation, Belarus's pro-Moscow leader, Alyaksandr Lukashenko, boasted of growing ...

PARKSLEY, Va.- Just a stone's throw from the ocean and bay in Parksley, Virginia, is another sea: a sea of yellow that seems almost heavenly. Stretching for hundreds of acres, it is a beautiful flower ...

Scientists have pinpointed the compound in rapeseed responsible for its bitter taste, marking an encouraging step towards the creation of palatable rapeseed by-products for human consumption. Rapeseed ...

Hybrid seed production is vital for enhancing crop yield and quality, yet conventional methods in rapeseed are limited by inefficiency and high costs. Researchers have developed a streamlined two-line ...