Rapeseed Oil Producers Make Healthy Cakes

We all like to tuck into a slice of cake every now and then. But let's be honest, healthy cakes don't exactly have a reputation of being the tastiest. That's why we found this news article from rapeseed oil producers, Larchwood Foods, even more interesting.


In the March 2012 issue of BBC's Good Food Magazine they made some healthy tweaks to a classic lemon drizzle cake recipe. One of which was the removal of butter and instead replacing it with rapeseed oil. From this they found that the cake went form having 10.4g of saturated fat to only 1.4g per slice!


The article then goes on to speak about the rapeseed oil producers, Larchwood Foods, doing their own experiments to see how the cakes actually taste. To do this they created 3 variations of the same cake, one with 100% rapeseed oil, one with half rapeseed oil half butter, and a final one using 100% butter. Their verdict? The rapeseed oil cake was a tastier, lighter and moister cake! 


We'll have to try this out ourselves in a future blog post. In the mean time, have you experimented with the use of different fats/oils when creating cakes? Be sure to let us know any of your favourite recipes in the comments below. We look forwarding to reading them and doing a little bit of baking!

If you're interested to give the original article a read, here it is - http://www.mrhughs.co.uk/news/healthy_baking_with_mr_hughs_rapeseed_oil

Rapeseed Oil Suppliers: Demand of Rapeseed Oil to grow

Global canola research director David Charne last week stated that the world is currently producing around 58 million tonnes of oilseed brassicas - including canola, rapeseed and oilseed mustards. However demand is expected to hit 90 million tonnes by the end of the decade - a 50 percent increase. Charne said that around 20 percent of the required growth would come from an increased sowing area, but the rest would have to come from better productivity from rapeseed oil suppliers.

David Charne said "That means the growth in yield needs to be about 3 per cent a year." Rapeseed oil suppliers in Australia are producing the biggest crop ever this season at 2.5 million tonnes. However, Australia is actually a small producer globally, only accounting for roughly 4 percent of the estimated 58.3 million tonnes globally. Europe are one of the largest at 20.8 million tonnes produced, with China and North America following with 14 million tonnes each, and India with 7 million.

That said, is a 50 percent growth in production within the next 9 years achievable or sustainable for rapeseed oil suppliers? Dr Charne has stated that we're producing 70 percent more canola today than we were 10 years ago - an impressive number. However most of this growth has been in the area sown, wheras to reach a 90 million tonne crop by 2020 most of the emphasis for rapeseed oil suppliers would be placed on genetic improvement.

Interested in finding out more about rapeseed oil and rapeseed oil suppliers? Visit - http://www.larchwoodfoods.co.uk