Canada growers pitching canola oil as health food
Posted on: Thursday, 16 March 2006, 12:17 CST
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Canola Council of Canada is holding its 39th annual meeting in New York City to spur interest in canola oil as a healthy food which can help trim the risk of heart disease, an industry official said Thursday.
Herb Schafer, the chairman of the council and North American vice president for Bunge Ltd., told Reuters that canola oil is one of the healthiest vegetable oils due to its "very low" level of saturated fats, which is a factor that can cut the risk of heart disease.
Canola oil can become a replacement for other oils "as people understand the importance of low-saturate products in (their) diet," said Schafer.
The American Medical Association has said that saturated fats and trans fatty acids found in meat, poultry skin and hard vegetable oils such as stick margarine "are associated with an increase in cardiac events and should be avoided."
Good fats which help reduce cholesterol are found in olive oil, canola oil, peanut oil, nuts and seeds, the group said. (http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/11004.html)
Heart disease and stroke are the leading causes of death in developed countries. Coronary artery disease is the leading killer in the United States.
"A big sector of (canola) oil is in the North American market," said Schafer. "It is extremely important that canola will become a premier product for the health of our population."
Source: REUTERS
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