Relating to or denoting a type of acid found in seeds of plants in the brassica family.
From 'brassica' + the chemical suffix -idic, referring to a specific fatty acid (brassidic acid) discovered in these plants.
Brassidic acid is naturally present in rapeseed oil, but it's so unhealthy for humans that plant breeders spent decades creating 'canola'—a rapeseed variety with minimal brassidic acid—to make the oil safe to eat!
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