I used to eat tea seed oil in the countryside. Why can't I see it now?

cooking oil. It is a necessity in our daily life. The most common edible oils in rural areas are peanut oil, soybean oil and sesame oil. The most expensive edible oil in the world should be olive oil, which has the reputation of "liquid gold" in western countries. However, many people may not know that there is an oil in China, which is not inferior to olive oil. This oil is tea seed oil. This kind of oil has a long history than peanut oil, and has the title of "national oil".

so why is tea seed oil once scarce now? Where did the tea seed oil go? Let me share with you: tea seed oil is still strange to many people. Although I was born in a rural area along the coast of Fujian, I really never saw it when I was a child. Which tree people in the village squeeze tea seed oil? Until 23, when I was in Longchuan, Heyuan, Guangdong Province, I heard from the local villagers that there was an oil there, which was called Changshou Oil by the local people and also known as the oil king. This kind of oil is tea seed oil, which is the fruit of wild tea tree and squeezed from it.

I was accompanied by a cousin of mine. He was very interested in this and asked his local friends to try it. As a result, he tasted it and found that the oil was really good, so he asked his local friends where to buy it. Local friends said that this kind of oil can't be bought with money in other places. You can only buy it in the countryside if you want. Later, my cousin followed the man to the countryside to buy 1 Jin of tea seed oil at the price of 1 Jin in 6 yuan, and then sent the tea seed oil back to his hometown.

when my uncle received the tea seed oil, he said it was good and the food he cooked was delicious. But they heard that the oil sold for 6 yuan a catty, and didn't even say it, wondering if my cousin was cheated. You know, in 23, the 8 yuan of peanut oil squeezed by farmers in our village will not exceed one catty. Why is tea seed oil so expensive? My cousin once suspected that he had been cheated by local friends, but he was too old to type online, so let me help him find out whether the value of tea seed oil is worth 6 yuan a catty, and whether it is really the longevity oil that the locals said.

I found that tea seed oil: Tea tree is native to China, which is not cold-resistant and high-temperature-resistant, and is suitable for growing in cold and humid climate. They mainly grow and distribute in the subtropical south of China, such as Jiangxi, Hunan and Zhejiang. The tea seeds of this wild mountain tea tree can extract tea seed oil, which is a treasure endowed by nature to China.

According to Zhao Xuemin, a medical scientist in Qing Dynasty, tea seed oil has the efficacy of "moistening intestines and clearing stomach, killing insects and detoxifying"; In addition, Wang Shixiong's "Life, Taste and Diet Spectrum of Qing Dynasty" records that "tea oil should be used for daily use, steamed things give birth to light, and all oils are the lightest and clearest, so all diseases cannot be avoided". Modern medicine also shows that the composition of tea seed oil is higher than olive oil. As we all know, the price of olive oil has been sold to sky-high prices in the market, and it is not surprising that tea seed oil is sold to 6 yuan for a catty. The more important female parent of tea seed oil, namely tea tree, is distributed in several subtropical areas in the south. Tea trees need to grow in a pollution-free environment, and the production process of tea seed oil is much more complicated than peanut oil: the final camellia oil can be obtained by collecting camellia seeds, removing their shells, drying in the sun, crushing, cooking, squeezing oil and filtering.

let's talk about tea seed oil again. Where did it go? From the above, it can be concluded that tea seed oil is mainly distributed in the south. If there are no tea trees in other places, there will be no tea seed oil. In addition, tea seed oil has strict requirements on the growth environment, too cold and too high temperature, which is not suitable for their growth. Finally, at present, tea trees are mainly wild, and few people plant them artificially, so the annual output will not be too high. Even if farmers in some places collect camellia seeds, the number is not much. After squeezing oil, I mainly keep it for myself to eat, and the amount I can sell will not be too much. Even if someone grows it, these resources are in the hands of those big companies, and the price of tea seed oil is high. The consumers they face are definitely not ordinary rural residents, and the sales focus is mainly on first-tier cities.