Re: Re:Tea seed oil/Camellia Oil

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Desh,

> I haven't used it, but I did wonder how far back traditional usage goes

> (the claim on the site is vague, as is the wiki article). . . . seems

> more work to manufacture than would have logically happened 7,000 years

> ago.

The traditional usage issue keeps coming up in the places I looked

with no verified answer thus far, although I keep reading about the

usage by Chinese royalty going back about 2500 years or so.

On the other hand, the ancient Egyptians were quite adept at making

seed oils and refining flours, being stricken with many of the

degenerative diseases that plaque us today.

> Also, many seed oils get bitter when used to make mayonnaise or

> vinaigrette in a food processor or blender (are there other uses for

> oil?).

Salads, cooking, as a food supplement, cocoa candies, hair and skin

care, smoothies

> The smoke point of tea seed oil is enticing. I have trouble

> filtering my tallow enough to raise the smoke point for occaisional

> frying.

Yes, the smoke point caught my eye as well.

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signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are

not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is

not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers,

the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children…. Under the

cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of

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