What is the difference between canola oil and vegetable oil?

Can I use vegetable oil in place of canola oil in a marinade recipe?What is the difference between canola oil and vegetable oil?
Canola oil comes from a hybrid plant developed in Canada during the late 1960s - 1970s using traditional pedigree hybrid propagation techniques (not genetically modified) involving black mustard, leaf mustard, and turnip rapeseed. The original rapeseed plant was high in erucic acid, which is an unpalatable fatty acid having negative health effects in high concentrations. Canola oil contains less than 1 percent erucic acid. Actually, another name for canola oil is LEAR (Low Erucic Acid Rapeseed) oil.





It is called Canola because you can't exactly call it ';Rapeseed oil';





Vegetable oil is made from any number of vegetable fats and is high is triglycerides.





Yes, feel free to substitute in most recipes, but try to use canola instead of vegetable oil in general.What is the difference between canola oil and vegetable oil?
Yes, you can use canola oil instead of vegetable oil in a recipe. It's just cooking oil.


The difference is that canola is a little better for you:


';Vegetable fats and oils are substances composed of triglycerides, derived from plants';.





';Compared with sunflower, corn, peanut, and many other oils, Canola has a low ratio of saturated to unsaturated fat';.
I would try it, because they're pretty close. Vegetable oil is a mixture of different things, while canola is a special type. Vegetable is pretty similar to canola though, that's why I say try it. Neither one has a really strong flavor to it.
hmmm....let's think long and hard about this question before trying to find an answer. hmmmm...let me see. could the difference be that canola oil is made from canola and the vegetable oil is made from vegetables? that couldn't be, could it?


you can use either in any recipe, marinade, sauce, etc. the nutritional information may be different though, in terms of # of calories and what not.