Erucic

Word ERUCIC
Character 6
Hyphenation e ru cic
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Formation of trans fatty acids and cyclic fatty acid monomers was investigated during refining of low erucic acid rapeseed oil. ❋ Unknown (2006)

In much of the West, the sale of mustard oil for food use is illegal, for two reasons: it contains large quantities of an unusual fatty acid, erucic acid; and it contains irritating isothiocyanates. ❋ Harold McGee (2004)

The expansion of the cultivation of oilseed rape in recent years in both western Europe and Canada is the result of plant breeding, which has culminated in the production of 'double zero' seed varieties in which erucic acid and glucosinolates are virtually eliminated. ❋ Unknown (1995)

The traditional rapeseed crops of the Indian subcontinent are characterized by the presence of high amounts of erucic acid and a group of anti-nutritional, sulphur-containing compounds called glucosinolates. ❋ Unknown (1995)

However, high-erucic rapeseed oil is still in demand for industrial purposes. ❋ Unknown (1995)

In the past, oil produced from the higher yielding varieties contained high levels of erucic acid, which constitutes a health risk for human consumption. ❋ Unknown (1989)

The fatty acid composition is: palmitic 1.3 per cent; stearic 1.4 per cent; arachidic 3 per cent; behenic 3.4 per cent; erucic 22 per cent; oleic 60.8 per cent; linoleic ❋ Unknown (1987)

One company in West Germany already makes a jojoba-like liquid wax out of high-erucic rapeseed oil and sells about two tons of it a week. ❋ Unknown (1985)

One of the potential hazards of using jojoba oil in foods is that about 13 percent of its fatty acids are close to erucic acid in composition. ❋ Unknown (1985)

In 1988, for instance, low erucic acid rapeseed oil became much more popular after it was renamed "canola oil." ❋ Unknown (2011)

The Company produces biodiesel, a renewable, clean-burning and biodegradable fuel and a raw material used to produce chemical products, primarily from vegetable oil offal and used cooking oil, and by-products from biodiesel production, including glycerine, plant asphalt, erucic acid and erucic amide. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The breeders eliminated the erucic acid and called the new variety Canola, used only as a cooking oil. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Rapeseed oil contains very high levels of erucic acid, a compound that in large amounts can be toxic to humans. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Canola plants have very low levels of erucic acid. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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