Canola Ink
January 1, 2010
In This Issue
CanolaInfo Cookbook Featured in #1 U.S. Newspaper
California Starts New Year with Trans
Fat Ban
New Year’s Resolution: Be Good to
Your Body and Heart
From Classic to Cold-Pressed, Canola
Oil Equals Success
Millions "Discover Canola
Oil" with CanolaInfo News Release
HAPPY
NEW YEAR!
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CanolaInfo Cookbook Featured in
#1 U.S. Newspaper
USA
Today included
"The Heart-Smart Diabetes Kitchen: Fresh, Fast, and Flavorful Recipes Made
with Canola Oil" in a round-up of the top five diabetes cookbooks in its
print (1.9 million+ circulation) and online (13 million+ impressions) issues
Dec. 22. A person with diabetes tested the Panko-Parmesan Chicken with Capers
recipe and said it "was easy to make and ... good," while the author
called the recipes fresh and easy. The cookbook cover was included in the
article and on the front page of the life section as a teaser.
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California Starts New Year with Trans
Fat Ban
Jan. 1, 2010, marks California’s official status as the first
state to ban artificial trans
fat in restaurants. Though the mandate was passed in 2008, restaurants were
given a one-year grace period to get partially hydrogenated oils and other
sources of trans
fat out of their foods. Two eateries in Martinez, Calif., say they’ve always
used canola oil to keep trans
fat at bay. Also this week, legislators in Broome County, N.Y., voted to sweep trans fat out of the
county’s 700 or so restaurants with no known objections from the food service
community.
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New Year’s Resolution: Be Good to Your Body
and Heart
Adopting
healthy eating habits in 2010 may help prevent chronic diseases such as heart
disease and diabetes, and good fats like canola oil play an integral role. A
nutrition expert in Australia notes that recent research of people with or at
risk of developing type 2 diabetes may improve their cholesterol, triglycerides
and fasting insulin levels by consuming polyunsaturated fats found in canola
oil, oily fish and walnuts.
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From Classic to Cold-Pressed, Canola Oil
Equals Success
Canola oil is Canada’s claim to fame and the introduction of
artisanal cold-pressed canola oil gives it a new culinary twist. An article
from The Reader’s Digest
in Montreal digs into the history of canola oil and discusses its recent
expansion from "stealth oil" – neutral and low in saturated fat,
"the perfect cooking oil for a fat-phobic population" – to gourmet
cold-pressed varieties. Pick up the January 2010 issue of The Reader’s Digest for
the article.
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Millions "Discover Canola Oil" with
CanolaInfo News Release
A
Dec. 30 social media release on "The
Professional Chef Discovers Canola Oil" e-learning module by The Culinary
Institute of America (CIA) and CanolaInfo garnered more than 120 million
impressions due to pick-up by Yahoo!, Yahoo! Canada and Reuters among many
other media outlets. The release highlighted ethnic–inspired recipes, including
Tunisian Spiced Chicken Skewers, Brick-Pressed Cuban-Inspired Sandwiches and
Spicy Beijing Noodles, in keeping with current food trends. Video demos by CIA
chef-instructors make the recipes easy for home chefs.
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