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Does camellia oil have a shelf life?
Camellia oil has a limited shelf life, so it can't be eaten after expiration, otherwise the quality of camellia oil will change, which may endanger human health. It is best not to continue eating tea oil for more than 3 years, but the expired tea oil can be used for other purposes:

1, the skin of pregnant women is stretched in the later period, which is prone to itching and chapping. Applying camellia oil every morning can prevent and relieve it.

2, used for baby diaper rash, eczema, camellia oil directly applied to the affected area, safe and effective.

3. Tea oil has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and can eliminate redness and swelling, which is especially suitable for traumatic injuries of infants, safe and effective.

Tea oil is also used to treat scalds and burns, as well as skin diseases, such as tinea corporis and chronic eczema.

5. Camellia oil has the functions of moisturizing, moistening, blackening hair and caring skin. It can be used for hair care, preventing hair breakage and alopecia, rubbing the body after bathing, enhancing skin elasticity, and preventing skin itching of the elderly in winter.

6. Apply a little camellia oil around your eyes before going to bed to eliminate bags under your eyes.

7. Camellia oil is the best hand cream and lotion. Apply a small amount of camellia oil to your lips in the morning and evening in winter to prevent chapped lips.

8, lightly apply tea oil to the liver, which can eliminate abdominal flatulence.

Extended data:

Camellia oil (also known as wild camellia oil, camellia seed oil and camellia seed oil) is taken from camellia seed. The production process of camellia oil can be divided into hulling, sun drying, crushing, cooking, oil pressing and filtering. The whole process is physical, so it is really pure natural green edible oil.

Five characteristics of tea oil

1. Edible oil with green food characteristics

Camellia oleifera seed oil, also known as Camellia oleifera seed oil, is produced from wild tree species-Camellia oleifera (tree), which grows in mountainous areas without manual management (such as fertilization and spraying pesticides) and is pollution-free.

2. Easy for human body to digest and absorb

Among the common edible oils, tea oil contains the most high-quality fatty acids (up to 90.4%), and the least saturated fatty acids (commonly known as fat), and does not contain indigestible erucic acid. According to the oil theory, most nutrients in tea oil are easily absorbed and utilized by human tissues. This property is also called "skin-friendliness".

3. Significant hypolipidemic performance

Practical basis: the life practice of not less than tens of millions of people.

Because tea oil can remove harmful blood lipids (saturated fatty acids and cholesterol), it has the functions of cleaning blood, reducing blood viscosity and dredging blood vessels.

4. Strong oxidation resistance

Tea oil is a typical oleic acid/linoleic acid oil, and its strong oxidation resistance is the * * * property of this kind of unsaturated fatty acids; Tea oil is rich in vitamin E and is recognized as a strong antioxidant.

5. Good biofilm fluidity

Because tea oil has remarkable hypolipidemic performance, it can remove the fat and cholesterol attached to the inner wall of blood vessels, dredge capillaries and arterial blood vessels, increase the blood transfusion cross section of blood vessels, soften and moisten blood vessels, restore their elasticity and keep them young.

Shelf life

Camellia oil is suitable for storage in a cool, dry and dark place, and the optimum temperature is 10-25℃. There will be milky white flocculent crystals at low temperature, which is a normal phenomenon and will not affect eating. When the outside temperature is high, it will disappear naturally (note: the best camellia oil will not have this phenomenon after freezing treatment). Because camellia oil contains a lot of antioxidants, the shelf life can be as long as two years at room temperature, which is much longer than that of ordinary edible oil.

The shelf life of purified camellia oil can even reach five years in a cool and dry environment.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-camellia oil