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Brassica Campestris Seed Oil
Brassica Campestris Seed Oil
Low concern
Brassica campestris seed oil is a vegetable oil similar to canola. Like other vegetable oils, it is a source of fat in the diet; high-erucic-acid varieties are restricted in food but modern cultivars are low-erucic.
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What it is
Oil pressed from the seeds of Brassica campestris (turnip rape/field mustard), a relative of canola.
Edible cooking oil and ingredient in processed foods; also used in cosmetics.
Why it's flagged
- high in calories from fat
- potential erucic acid in unrefined high-erucic varieties
What regulators actually say
"Low erucic acid rapeseed oil... is generally recognized as safe as a direct human food ingredient."
Regulatory status
United States — FDA
Low-erucic-acid rapeseed oil GRAS under 21 CFR 184.1555
European Union — EFSA
Permitted; erucic acid limits set in EU regulation
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