Rapeseed is the worlds number two oil seed crop ranking behind soybeans and a head of cotton seed, peanuts and sunflower seeds. The oil from it has the best fatty acid composition of all vegetable oils.
Canola is genetically improved rapeseed, has low composition of erucic acid and glucosinolates and hence called 'double-low'. In global production rapeseed and canola now rank second with 45 million metric tons produced or 15%of world oil seed production of 286.2 million tons.
The figure below shows routes of rapeseed meal applications.