Tea seed oil (also known as camellia oil, camellia seed oil, teanut oil) is an edible plant oil. It is obtained from the seeds of Camellia oleifera . Camellia sasanqua is also given as a source of ‘tea seed oil.
Where does tea seed oil come from?
With its high smoke point (252°C, 485°F), tea seed oil is the main cooking oil in some of the southern provinces of China, such as Hunan. In Japan tea seed oil is derived from Camellia japonica, mainly from Gotō Islands of Nagasaki prefecture and Izu islands of Tokyo prefecture.
Does tea seed oil regulate de novo fatty acid synthesis?
In vitro study using differentiated bovine mammary epithelial cells (MAC-T) demonstrated that tea seed oil upregulated de novo fatty acid synthesis via the sterol regulatory element-binding protein 1 ( Srebp1) signaling pathway.
What compounds are in tea seed oil?
The main minor compounds present in tea seed oil include the pentacyclic triterpenoids, β-Amyrin and lanosterol, as well as the free and bound phenolic compounds that potentially account for some of the antioxidant activities of this oil ( Wang et al., 2017a, Zeng and Endo, 2019 ).