FOOD NEWS
The Country Responsible For The Most Canola Oil Production
BY MATTHEW SPINA
According to World Population Review, Canada produces 20 million metric tons of canola oil every year, which beats China for first place by almost 5 million tons.
During World War II, the oil demand for Allied forces was through the roof, but a blockade was preventing the oil from being shipped, and Canada stepped up to the plate.
Canola oil comes from the rapeseed plant, which doesn't tolerate high temperatures well (even in the summer), and the Canadian prairie provinces have extremely fertile soil.
By the1960s, the now-large Canadian rapeseed industry began to develop variants that were more suitable for cooking oil. They called it "canola," shortened from Canadian oil.