How to consume tea oil (tea seed oil):

1. Cold mix: Ordinary cooking oil cannot be used directly for cold mix without heating until cooked, while camellia seed oil can be directly used for cold mix with various meats and vegetables without heating, and can also be used to make salad dressings, with bright colors and smooth Taste, light, not greasy and other characteristics.

2. Hot frying: Nutrition experts point out that the cooking method of "hot pot and cold oil" can ensure the color, aroma, taste and nutrition of the dishes. Food fried with wild camellia oil is not dark, fresh and delicious, and not greasy.

3. Frying: When frying food, ordinary cooking oil will produce hydrogen peroxide at high temperatures, which is very harmful to the human body. Camellia oil contains antioxidants (vitamin E) and can be fried at 220 degrees for 20 hours without deterioration or production of trans fatty acids, and the quality will not change. It is an ideal and healthier oil for frying.

4. Baking: Apply a layer of tea oil before or during baking to keep food fresh, crispy, smooth and less likely to burn.

5. Soup: When or after making soup, add a spoonful of tea oil to make the soup more fragrant.

Steaming: Add a spoonful of tea oil before or after steaming, such as steamed fish or steamed egg custard.

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Tips for choosing camellia oil:

1. The lower the acid value, the better. Enterprise quality control should be within 0.15, generally within 1.0 (foreign grade 4 oil). If the oil you buy has an open palm rub or smells sour when heated in a pan, it means the oil is of poor quality. Even if high-quality oil is heated to a temperature of over 200 degrees, it is unlikely that it will have a sour taste.

2. Peroxide value: The lower the better; the lower the index, the lower the degree of oxidation.

Color, luster: National demand is not high, and wrong consumption, everyone thinks that the color depth of oil is more real, but in fact it is not, it can be processed into colorless oil raw materials, cosmetics and medicinal oils and high-grade cold Oil, camellia oil, generally dark extract (leach) may be a baker's hair oil.

4. Residual solvent: The residual volume is the oil extracted from the tea cake. There is no doubt that high content of solvent (n-hexane) is undoubtedly harmful to health, so the national regulations are very strict, 10PPM (i.e. 10PPM). , less than 1PPM).

5. Smoke Point: The higher the smoke point, the better the quality of the oil. The smoke point is the temperature at which oil produces smoke during heating. When the oil is put into the pot, the smoke point can be judged, especially when the heating temperature is higher.

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