FRC: Does canola oil taste fishy?

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curious1

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A few months ago, my favorite potato chip, Cape Cod 40% REduced Fat changed their frying oil to 100% canola oil. Ever since, I notice a sort of fishy taste to the chips at times but not every time. A friend told me she didn't use canola oil because she detected that taste in her home cooking. I googled and found that we are not the only ones to note this flavor in canola oil and it is indeed discribed as a fishy taste. I use canola oil whenever I need a vegetable oil and have never noticed the taste in my home-cooked food. I buy the expeller pressed Spectrum or Hains brand and keep it refrigerated, which may be a factor in the lack of fishy taste here at home. Also, I don't deep-fry.

I'm wondering if this is one of those funny taste things like people who think cilantro tastes soapy or broccoli is bitter, or if it's more common than that. So I'm asking, does anyone here taste the fishy taste in products cooked in canola oil?

 
Y E S It does. I never use canola, I use olive oil mostly even for baking, BUT NEVER CANOLA!!smileys/frown.gif

 
Me either. I only use Canola and EVOO. I wonder if you are right about

different tastes. DH thinks cilantro tastes like soap too. Funny, huh?

 
Yes, that seems to be the case. If you google canola oil fishy taste, there are a

lot of comments about it. Better yet, just canola oil fishy. I definitely started noticing it when Cape Cod switched the frying fat exclusively to canola oil. It just took me awhile to figure out what it was. There was a definite change in texture, also. We had two bags, one before the change and one after and did a taste test. My husband agreed they were quite different.

 
Dianne, we seem to be in the minority, since I only taste it in some of the bags of chips, I'm

thinking that it has to do with the temperature or overuse of the oil.

 
Just a guess, but they often use the same machines to process different oils/foods. I 'm thinking

this because you often see on the labels, processed on equipment used to process peanuts. (they do that because many people are deathly allergic to peanuts.) My two cents....

 
It does taste FISHY, when I used it in the past, cookies, cakes, and any dessert was ruined I will

NEVER EVER EVER USE CANOLOA OIL, and most of my friends and family agree, it turns all foods to a fishy or harsh after taste.

 
Canola oil comes from rapeseed which is a form of mustard. Maybe it twinges the same taste buds

as fish does for you?

I'm reading "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" by Barbara Kingsolver. I've been really, REALLY suprised to find out that soy bean oil and high fructose sugar are in the food packaging!

 
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