WHY WE PREFER CAMELLIA OIL

Camellia oil is renowned for its delicate flavor. What makes Camellia oil so unique is that it can be heated to a much higher temperature than other popular oils, such as olive oil, without changing its delicate flavor or converting its healthy Omega 3 and 6 fatty acids into saturated/complex fats on the introduction of flash heat to seal in flavor. It is the perfect healthy choice for chefs and at-home cooks. Camellia oil’s light subtle citrus flavor also makes it an ideal for salads and as a drizzling oil.

Camellia oil is also used as a beauty aid for centuries and is a key ingredient that brings luster to dry and aging skin and can be used on the most sensitive of skin. It is found in all the top cosmetic lines. Camellia can be used directly on the face, hands and body, and as a perfect hair conditioner for weak, dry hair. Free of any chemical or fragrance additives, it gently soaks into the skin without a heavy residue, leaving the skin a soft dewy touch.

process

Non-Mechanical Handle

ShanCha camellia seeds are hand-collected and natural-dried, maintains camellia’s original nutrition. It is the best of oil.

Physical Extraction

Every drop of ShanCha Camellia Oil is extracted by physical squeeze under low temperature, straightly from camellia seed. This environmental-friendly low-tempreture-pressed technique ensures the original nutrition and various kinds of natural active ingredients of camellia seeds are fully retained. The oil can be preserved for a long time without adding any additives. It is a pure natural organic food.

Sterile Bottling

Filling factory is proceeded with 300,000 Degree Air Purification and the whole bottling process does not contact with the outside air, which ensures the highest product quality.

Nutrition

From the hand picking of the Camellia pods off the tree, to the creation of organic cold-pressed Extra Virgin ShanCha Camellia Oil that is ready to ship to you, we maintain the strictest quality standards. In 2015 ShanCha and Greendew Camellia Oil our sister company in China along with their parent company Lingrui built a cold oil press to allow local farmer to bring all their seeds into oil production and to create oil that is of the absolute highest standards of purity and flavor.

HOW CAMELLIA MEASURES UP TO OTHER OILS

High Linoleic Acid, Linoleic Acid Ratio:

Linolenic acid: linoleic acid ratio of Camellia fruit is 1:4, which is closer with human breast milk than all other edible oil is.

High Unsaturated Fatty Acids Content:

Unsaturated fatty acids of Camellia oil is over 80%, which contributed by the long growth period. The percentage is higher than any other edible oil.

High Smoke Point:

Smoke point of Camellia oil is above 485°F, which is higher than Olive oil’s 325°F smoke point and all edible oil. The cooking process during every kind of cooking methods makes nearly none-smoke so that the foods are kept in fresh and rich of their original nutrients and the cooking process is safer.

High Temperature Resistance – Thermostablity:

Common edible oil will produce peroxide with high temperature fried foods, which is extremely harmful to the human body. The camellia oil contains antioxidants (vitamin E), which can be continuous frying for 20 hours in a high temperature of 220 degrees without degradation or produce trans fatty acid. It is the ideal cooking oil for a healthier fry, deep-fry diet.

Low Temperature Edible – Directly Use:

Common edible oil (Vegetable Oil, Canola Oil, etc.) cannot be directly used for salad without heating. Camellia oil, without the need for heating, can be directly used on meat or vegetable salad. Meanwhile it also can be used as salad dressing for a brighter color, a smoother, fresher, non-greasy taste.

ABOUT US

When Jin Wang moved to New York City from Vancouver in 2009 she missed the oil that she grew up using in her parents’ and grandparents’ kitchens in the Hunan province in China. As a child she would travel into the mountains and her grandmother would take a small sprig of bamboo and make it into a straw to sip sweet Camellia nectar directly from the blossoms of the Camellia tree. She always told Jin about the restorative properties of Camellia nectar.

Fast forward to New York, Jin wondered ‘Why is American cooks are insistent on using Olive oil when Camellia oil is so beautifully flavored, and so practical in the kitchen?’ Its healthy properties are well known among Asian natural food enthusiasts and Asian women apply it directly to their skin.

Jin decided to team up with Lingrui and because she has know its founders and respected their company philosophy since Lingrui’s inception over 20 years ago. She understands their deep commitment to the people of the region having been brought up themselves in the unchanged small villages where the economic life stems from Camellia oil and subsistence vegetable and rice cultivation. Lingrui has focused their business success on the use of all native plants and herbs sourced locally to create natural medicines popular across China for their restorative properties. Lingrui has been so committed to supporting the subsistence farmers they built the first, and likely only for many years to come, state-of-the-art right sized cold press for Camellia oil production to provide a living wage to the individual family-farmers who work across these mountainsides.

 OUR COMMITMENT 

We produce what we believe to be the finest Camellia oil in China. Sourced from an old-growth forest that continuously regenerates its trees, these Camellia seeds are completely organic. The trees have never been sprayed or fertilized and the environment where they flourish is resplendent with clean air and water, providing a perfect habitat for the forest ecosystem. At ShanCha we are committed to providing the highest quality fully organic Camellia oil to our customers and we are committed to protecting these natural forests that provide a habitat for a myriad of rare and distinct local plants and animals. At ShanCha, we feel you can taste the freshness of nature in ShanCha Camellia Oil.

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

Jin Wang and ShanCha are committed to the protection of this 200,000 acre forest that are the source of what we believe is the finest Camellia oil in Asia. Because Camellia seeds are harvested by hand, without intruding on the fertility of the continuously blossoming trees, ShanCha can protect the southern Xinxian forest lands from unwanted intrusion and destruction. The farmers of the surrounding villages have been sustainably harvesting for over 25 generations and share ShanCha’s commitment to the preservation of this land. Using traditional methods of hand grinding the farmers from these villages have made a subsistence living from the forest for over 500 years now.  In order to protect the traditional way of life ShanCha has partnered with Lingrui in the introduction of a local cold-press grinder, to extract oil from seeds in small batches. This single point of mechanization is allowing farmers to increase production sufficient to move their lives from subsistence to a local living wage.