Why is Mustard Oil Banned in US & Europe? 

“How to eliminate competition” a classic playbook of North America

There was a pure US propaganda against mustard oil and coconut oil and Ghee.

People living on junk food/fast food are more bothered about consuming Mustard Oil. What an irony 😂😂

We get cold pressed rapeseed oil in UK. Love mustard oil though. They should put "only for external use" on McDonald's.

Mustard is the olive of Indian subcontinent

They place so many additives in our food in general which are actually banned overseas and worry about mustard oil🥴

What a scam. I had never heard of mustard oil (sarson ka tel) until I went to my wife’s farm in Rajasthan and her family was producing it. It’s really delicious in sarson ka saag and gulgule 😋 Foreign countries should really reconsider their ban.

Perfect timing for your video dear sir. Thank you for sharing. I’ve recently been watching a lot of indian cooking vids on here and the cooks have detailed they use mustard oil. A couple of weeks ago I trotted to an indian grocery store (in London, 🇬🇧) to buy some mustard oil and all the brands stated for external use only that I became confused and walked out of the store without the oil. I’ve continued cooking with ghee but now that I’ve seen your helpful video, I’m planning to return to the store and picking up a bottle now that I understand the propaganda. 🙏🏽💟☮️🕉️

Decades ago, in this country, olive oil carried that label - external use only & could only be bought at the pharmacy.

We Bengalis cook 80% of our food using Mustard oil. 🤭 even consumed as raw oil (straight from the bottle) in small quantities for some dishes.

Wow!! A video that isn’t unnecessarily long and explains the subject. Thank you.

Most of the researchers have concluded that mustard oil is healthier compared to olive oil because of its ideal ratio of fatty acids. It has both omega-3 and 6 in sufficient quantity which makes it excellent for better heart health. In olive oil, this ideal proportion is missing besides being expensive.

Kachi ghani ( cold press)Mustard oil and Ghee are the souls of Indian kitchen and cooking can be done in both high n low temperatures in these two.

I always thought there's a canola plant which bore canola seeds😮 thank you so much for this information.

My grandfather and grandmother from past 98 yrs are using this oil they are not having any problem, and we are using oil which are recommended on T. V. Channel suffering a lot with different diseases.

Very useful info. Few weeks ago my wife and I wanted to buy the mustard oil as she recommended it for a dish. Since am a south Indian living in New York, this is the first time trying to find a mustard oil and all the brands were mentioned as "For External Use Only". Finally find the organic version which had no mention of if and bought it with higher price. Lol. Next time I won't look for organic in particular may be. Thanks again.

I recently went to purchase mustard oil at an Indian grocery store in the US. Was confused by the label too. Checked with the store owner, he told me they always come with that warning it people buy for cooking

Thank you sir!! Finally the mystery of the label on mustard oil bottles “ for external use only” in US, UK and Canada is solved. Thanks so much! Now I can share this excellent info with those friends who hesitate to use mustard oils available in Indian stores. All your videos have great info. 👍👍

Thanks for the explanation. I always wondered! 😯

My grandfather lived for 100+ years and he ate mustard oil all his life and so did many of my relatives who lived 80+ and 90+ years.

We Bengalees cook almost every other dish in Mustard oil. But this video definitely bursts the myth about why it has been banned in the US.

Thank you for clarifying that and showing how corporate greed determines narratives!

Thank you so much for the clarification sir.. Now I can stress free use this oil for cooking as I was always confused about its label 'For external use only'

Not sure what the "in Europe" is referring to. In Germany you can buy cold pressed mustard oil for cooking in supermarkets and a lot of small oil mills. It's not even expensive.

Thank you for this gem of a video, much needed for us Indians to dispel many oil myths. Could I please request you to also make an episode on the Great Olive Oil Scam as well? That is, the way Olive oil was advertised as a "healthy oil" in India to boost its sales here, while indigenous oils like Coconut and Mustard were demonised as being bad for the heart.

This is very helpful. In 1982, I was employed by an Australian lab to understand pollination in these plants towards growing breeds low in erucic acid to compete with the new Canadian market. We didn't call them canola back then. They were brassicas and we weren't encouraged to say rape or rapa. Something must have worked as, during a trip to southwestern Australia in 2009 we saw vast fields of canola in bloom.

This information is remarkable. You just got a new sub.

Doesn't rapeseed oil spontaneously combust? I remember seeing a video of a rag doused in some and after a while it caught fire by itself. I wonder if mustard seed oil does this too.

We switched to Mustard oil from rapeseed oil over a year ago not finding anything that was healthier for frying or cooking...It is difficult to get hold of but we do our utmost to pick up a few bottles when we do find it...Our elders all used Mustard oil and Rocket oil in India/Pakistan and had brilliant health...We are lucky to be able to find Edible mustard oil but it's not hard to make the inedible into edible oil just by slow to heating it up for a few mins...Will never regret switching🙏

Thank you for this! I had gone to my Indian grocery store looking for cooking mustard oil but couldn't find any because I thought the label meant there are 2 types of mustard oil-external and internal use.

They have KFCs, Taco Bells and Pizza Huts all over the country but mustard oil is bad for heart

Wow! I literally had a lesson today. Thanks.❤

I live in the UK now and I was initially puzzled by this notice. I went around trying to find if there was edible mustard oil, different from this. I finally concluded there wasn't and started using the same for cooking !

Thank you. This clears a lot of doubt. Short and crisp video.

I have just started using this cold pressed canola oil. Is it healthy?

Thanks for Reporting🧠 Will Share soon.

And I just literally finished cooking Chicken with Mustard Oil 😂😂. I'm originally from Bihar living in US. We mostly use Mustard oil for veg and non-veg cooking.

Eye opener! Plus informative!

So that's why my uncle was packing at least 5 kg of oil before going back to the UK. I still remember how hard it was to make sure that they didn't leak by taping them tightly and his bag became very heavy because of that.

Thank you for this. Always good to find something educational and interesting on RU-vid.

I respect & appreciate your good manners .

I was trying to find cooking mustard oil too and only found external use oil in the US. So I didn't buy it. I never grew up with mustard oil. My grandmother used coconut oil in Sri Lanka.

Just a few days ago I tried ordering brown mustard seeds from amazon but it couldn't be shipped to the U.S. I never knew that brown mustard seed is banned here. It seems I can get yellow mustard seeds but not brown. ? It's silly to me

Your vocal volume is so low I turned up the volume and that banging music at the end just blew my eardrums. Wow so many people can't get the sound right in their editing can't maintain a reasonably constant volume even in such short less than 2 minute long video, astounding!

This must be happening for other “edibles” that have been passed off as safe but are actually NOT safe !

Insightful! I wondered why Indian origin mustard oil shows ‘for external use only’ in the US.

Thank you so much for this information

As a Bengali from Kolkata we still use mustard oil for cooking every day. 💖💖💖

Not surprised. Thank you for the info.

I still use lard for roast potatoes, which gives a crunchy shell.

There are several stores where you can get it in the states where it doesn’t say for external use only and is with the cooking oil. Where is your citation for this, because I double checked just now and found a bottle at Walmart that sure enough even online it’s clear that it’s for consumption

Thanks for educating us.

Nandri. Thank you for this insight. Awesome. I was thinking that it was oil from a seed that was called "canola". I saw a youtube recently saying McD uses canola and 3 others to fry up their fries and this was somewhat bad or damaging and in early days they used "tallow". So what palm oil coz lots of restrictions are imposed on it by eu. Anythg there?.

You sir are awesome!! Always had this question in back of my mind, today you answered it. Thanks!!

Thanks for clearing this up. I was really doubting poor mustard oil at a point of time because of this

canola was bred to be more “body friendly” it use to just be a lubricant.

It is so frustrating that people make this far reaching laws without basing it on good research. My daughter has a soy allergy. Because if a study with a whopping 300-ish people show that soybean oil didn’t cause a reaction in those 300 soy allergic individuals, products with soybean oil don’t have to be labeled as containing an allergen. However, it’s only the highly refined soybean oil that doesn’t cause the reaction for one, and for two, it’s not even accurate. There was a petition with over 300 people who had soy allergies asking for it to be labeled as an allergen as they had reactions to the soybean oil. My daughter also has a reaction to the oil, though less than with soybean protein or lecithin. Meanwhile, trying to find mustard oil here in the states is difficult, but when we live in Bangladesh, I along with millions of other people use it regularly. So silly.

I use sesame oil and groundnut oil as iam from AP, but i saw people buying olive pomace oil in hyderabad, is it good?

This is a cool channel. You are touching aspects of human life worth knowing.

Oh God, I can't believe there are so many unknowns in geopolitics. Thank you for letting us know.

Canola has a much higher percentage of Oleic acid than conventional mustard oil, which is considered good for the heart. Brassica rapa and juncea (conventional mustard) varieties are grown in Raj, MP, UP upto Haryana, Brassica Napus(rapeseed) is climatically more suitable for Punjab, J&K and Himachal.

Parachute coconut oil is marketed as a cooking oil because hair oils are taxed higher. You can also cook with Parachute hair oil.

Does anyone reccomend any specific brands i.e organic / comes in glass bottle, comes from a specific farm? Thanks!

For the last 5 yrs our family uses mustard oil from the mills not even the adulterated packaged oils.

I got out of twitter and miss occasionally engaging with you. Hope this comment finds you. Given the water crisis in most metropolitan cities in India and general trend of climate change, would love to see some insight from you on purchasing practices of seasonal fruit and vegetable that can actually create a positive environmental impact.

Happy To See Such Great Content!

A very informative video. Thank you!

I used to cook with sunflower oil but it always made me feel bloated and the food was also not that tasty. After switching to mustard oil, no bloating and the food also tasted much better

Wow. Who knew, the story behind canola?? I use mustard oil more mixed with other ingredients as a natural remedy for body pain, etc. Didn't know it was safe for consumption!

In Europe also banned and available only with same label "external use only" . Thanks for clarifying this

If only the government agencies really had citizens health at the fore front instead of the BIG AG corporations [donations].

Very informative Sir. Thank you !

Please make video on use of petroleum jelly and moisturiser.

We, the people of Bengal, have been consuming mustard oil for centuries if not millennia... What a ridiculous claim 😂😂

I can buy it at a local Indian market in Austin TX. Erushiol is the component that causes poison ivy reactions. It is also part of the formula for the finish used on Japanese lacquerware. If memory serves, it is also found in the skin of cashews and that’s why they are so hard to safely process and thus so expensive.

Is mustard oil good for deep frying??

With all due respect, Indians are as reliable as Americans when it comes to profit in products

Mustard oil is as good as olive oil. mustard oil has an upper hand when it comes to nutrition. This is because it has the ideal ratio of 1:2 of omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids, as recommended by the WHO

Love mustard seed oil, I purchased it from website that sells Indian legumes and seeds, very happy with it. So fragrant and rich taste . Also, I use it for the body, as a body massage oil in the cold winter days.

Interestingly you can buy caiziyou (roasted rapeseed oil) in the US at Chinese grocery stores. It's not even labeled for external use only and is the same as the unrefined rapeseed oil. This ban will not matter that much for longer as lower erucic acid mustard oils are already on the market and likely once they become cheap, you'll see them for sale everywhere.

It adds a nice bite to any dish.

Still not getting into seed oils if I can help it.

My ancestors in erstwhile east Bengal ate mustard oil for probably all their meals. My grandfather died at 85.Great grandfather at around 90. So, please tell me how it affected their health. My uncle on the other hand always consumed refined oils, sunflower oils and has been suffering from heart problems since his 30s. Had a minor stroke few years ago. So, I don't know what these studies are actually finding out. 😂😂😂😂

So glad to have discovered this channel. I like DATA. You give DATA. Perfect pairing .Liked/subscribed .

This is so interesting and I want to run out and buy a bottle of mustard oil. A couple of questions first. 1. What is the pesticide load on mustard seed oil from India? I do not think that there are any organic brands, at least in the USA 2. What is the shelf-life? That is, does it go rancid as readily as some light oils, like sesame or sunflower do? 3. If it does go rancid, is the rancid smell obvious over the inherent strong smell? Thank you. Fascinating video.

Mustard oil should be allowed to SMOKE before adding ingredients. That how it’s used in India.

Still people dying whatever oil we consume

Our father grandfather m his father always use mustard oil n all of them were super healthy … In India Today also we use mustard oil while making curries specially in North Indian states n southern uses coconut oil both r healthiest ❤️👍

Actually mostly all seed oils are bad but they don't ban the others. Animal fats or real butter is much better or fruit oils like avocado ,olive, or raw coconut oil.

Pakoras and any vegetables cooked in mustard oil tastes great, have been eating eat since the last 60 years, now that Ramzan is here we brought mustard oil to fry everything for use, kala chana fried is delicious. With all the spices garlic and ginger.

Nice and short but straight to point

What's it taste like, for cooking?

I'm from Canada, and I can definitely say Canola is a terrible oil. The modified ratio of Omegas promotes inflammation. Most seed oils are bad though, compared to fruit/nut oil

great content. One intriguing point..why is mustard Oil not famous in south of India?

Additionally it is an cold press oil which makes it less harmful as compared to the processed/refined ones.

And how am I expected to make aloo bhorta without mustard oil?

They are afraid Mustard could catch the taste pallets of European people 😂😂, but i ev bought some 🫒 oil to try in salads .

Please make a video on soya

So what is the summary of this video???

Thank You FDA for keeping our health in the forefront of your priorities. At least we still have the hydrogenated oils, unpronounceable multisyllabic preservatives, colorings, freshness enhancers. I gotta go for a BOTOX treament .