Everything about Tea Seed Oil totally explained
Tea seed oil (also known as
tea oil or
camellia oil) is an edible, pale amber-green
fixed oil with a sweet, herbal
aroma. It is cold-pressed mainly from the
seeds of
Camellia oleifera but also from
Camellia sinensis or
Camellia japonica.
With its high
smoke point (485° F.), tea seed oil is the main
cooking oil in some of the southern provinces of
China, such as
Hunan—roughly one-seventh of the country's population.
In Japan tea seed oil is derived from
Camellia japonica, mainly from
Gotō Islands of
Nagasaki Prefecture and
Izu Islands of
Tokyo Prefecture.
Tea seed oil resembles
olive oil and
grape seed oil in its excellent storage qualities and low content of
saturated fat.
Monounsaturated oleic acid may comprise up to 88% of the
fatty acids. It is high in
vitamin E and other
antioxidants and like all unprocessed vegetable oils, contains no natural
trans fats.
In addition to its use in
salad dressings,
dips,
marinades and
sauces, for
sautéing,
stir frying and
frying and in
margarine production, tea seed oil is used to manufacture
soap, hair oil,
lubricants,
paint and a rustproofing oil as well as in
synthesis of other high
molecular weight compounds. Japanese tea seed oil is used for setting the hair of
Sumo wrestlers and for
tempura.
Tea seed oil shouldn't be confused with
tea tree oil (melaleuca oil), an essential oil extracted from the leaves of the
paperbark Melaleuca alternifolia and used for
medicinal purposes.
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