Back then, the oil was extracted from the rapeseed plant, a vibrant yellow crop that produced a compound that was high in two chemicals (called erucic acid and glucosinolate) that made the oil ...

It takes its name from a yellow flower, known in Latin as Brassica napus and in English as the rape, from which we get rapeseed oil. Since "rape" (to most people at least) doesn't have such a ...