Huaitu Tea Oil

Huaitu Tea Oil

Huaitu Tea Oil is a protected geographical indication product.

　　Huaitu Tea Oil is a traditional specialty agricultural product from Ninghua County, Fujian Province, and a China National Geographical Indication product, named after its origin in Huaitu Township. With a long history, the oil is produced from oil-tea camellia trees grown in purple soil rich in trace elements such as phosphorus and potassium. Coupled with abundant sunlight in Huaitu, the tea fruits have high dry matter content, resulting in tea oil that is rich in unsaturated fatty acids and linoleic acid. It features a golden-yellow color, excellent quality, bright orange-yellow transparency, and a rich aroma. With high levels of unsaturated fatty acids, vitamins, minerals, and various trace elements, it is a healthy and safe green edible oil. In 2011, after review by the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, it was decided to implement national geographical indication product protection for Huaitu Tea Oil.

　　Huaitu Tea Oil is a traditional specialty agricultural product of Ninghua County, where the cultivation and production of tea oil have a history of nearly a thousand years. The oil boasts excellent quality, with a clear yellow transparency, rich aroma, sweet taste without bitterness, and high levels of unsaturated fatty acids, vitamins, and minerals. It also contains various trace elements, making it an outstanding natural plant-based edible oil that combines culinary use, health benefits, and therapeutic properties, offering both high economic and nutritional value.

　　Currently, Huaitu Oil Tea is cultivated across 100,000 mu in Ninghua County, yielding 5,100 tons of tea oil seeds annually, producing 1,500 tons of tea oil, and generating an annual output value of 150 million yuan. Ninghua County has been listed as a national key county for oil tea development.

　　　The geographical indication product protection area for Huaitu Tea Oil covers the administrative regions of eight townships in Ninghua County, Fujian Province: Huaitu Township, Shipi Town, Anyuan Township, Shuiqian Township, Jicun Township, Fangtian Township, Caofang Township, and Zhiping Township.