Talk:Tea seed oil

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Is this the same stuff as "Oil, vegetable, teaseed" in the USDA NDL database? That is listed as having much lower oleic acid content (50%). 4hodmt 18:52, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Removed link to commercial website that adds no encyclopedic information to main article. Myron 17:11, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Re-inserted removed link with more specific deep link to specific information on same site. Next time try to do a little digging. Not all links are spam.
 * Please see my comments on your talk page. It would help if you were to register with Wikipedia, sign your contributions and assume good will. Myron 03:02, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
 * I think the link in question is now acceptable as it links to an information rich page. --SirDecius 06:24, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Use as cooking oil?
Article claims that tea oil is the primary cooking oil in southern China, but I'm from Hong Kong and I never heard of this. Historically, rapeseed and peanut oils seems to be the vegetable oils of choice, while soybean oil is used as a cheaper alternative. Which, if any, would be the specific provinces in question that use tea oil? Kelvinc (talk) 18:32, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Okay it seems to be under the first external link. I'm still skeptical as to whether all of southern China can be covered in that statement, so I refined it a bit.  Kelvinc (talk) 18:37, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

-- use as cooking oil --

yes, absolutely. I have never used it as cooking oil because one cannot find it in US, but my mother-in-law and my parents told me their families used it when they were little while living in Jiangxi and Hunan, China. My mother-in-law said 70 years ago, there were no other cosmetic products, most women used it for hair, face etc. as well.

WChen —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eshens (talk • contribs) 15:12, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

This appears to what is called in Japan "tsubaki abura" or perhaps "aburara". It may be used occasionally for cooking, but it is mostly a hair oil and tool oil. Tsubaki abura http://www.chopsticksny.com/contents/j-shop/2009/03/1578 Hair/skin oil (C japonica): http://www.camelliaoil.com/ http://www.camellia-oil.org/review-of-camellia-oil/ Tool oil http://www.lie-nielsen.com/catalog.php?sku=co Kortoso (talk) 17:16, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Which plant is tea seed oil obtained from? Camellia oleifera or Camellia sinensis? Or both?
This article currently claims that "tea seed oil" is obtained from Camellia sinensis. So what about the oil obtained from Camellia oleifera? Are they different?

If you go to the page of Camellia sinensis, it's mostly about "tea". There's only one sentence (under "Description") about "tea oil". Interestingly, BOTH Camellia sinensis and Camellia oleifera were named in that sentence as the source. It seems to suggest that the "tea oil" obtained from both plants' seeds are the same.

Now, if you go to the page of Camellia oleifera, it's virtually all about this plant being the source of "tea oil". It even states that "tea oil" is also known as "tea seed oil". It's also worth noting that, unlike the article of Camellia sinensis, this article currently has no mentioning of this plant being harvested for "tea". It also has no mentioning of Camellia sinensis. This seems to suggest that Camellia oleifera's main product is "tea oil", not "tea".

After reading all tree articles, I'm really confused about the source of this oil. I also wonder why this article doesn't mention Camellia oleifera at all?

I was also reading about "tea seed oil" on Chinese Baidu's encyclopedia website. The Chinese article (supposedly) about "tea seed oil" (茶油 or 油茶籽油) explicitly claimed that the oil obtained from Camellia oleifera and Camellia sinensis are different. The oil obtained from Camellia oleifera is called 茶油 or 油茶籽油. And the oil obtained from Camellia sinensis is called 茶叶籽油. Both of them have their own individual articles.

Here are the external links to the Chinese articles if you are interested:

- Tea oil: http://baike.baidu.com/view/210921.htm

- Camellia oleifera: http://baike.baidu.com/subview/9812/5369968.htm

- Oil obtained from Camellia sinensis (tea oil?): http://baike.baidu.com/view/2278229.htm

- Camellia sinensis: http://baike.baidu.com/view/132851.htm

I usually consider the information on Wikipedia more accurate and reliable than the information on Chinese sites. In this case, however, I'm really not sure.

I'm certainly not an expert on this topic. I hope someone more knowledgeable can clear up the confusion.

Ben

Benjasmine (talk) 15:20, 2 November 2014 (UTC)

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Where is 'here'?
Under the headline Uses you find the following statement: "The oil has also been used in Chinese traditional medicine - here it has been used as..." Where exactly is "here"? Western world? English speaking part of the world? Hubba (talk) 07:48, 22 March 2021 (UTC)