Objective:To establish a standard method for extraction and determination of tea saponin from camellia products.Methods:tea saponin was extracted fromoil-tea Camellia seed cakeandmeal by heating reflux method.By optimizing the experimental conditions,a spectrophotometric method for the determination of tea saponin with vanillin-concentrated sulfuric acid as chromogenic agent was established.Results:The method had good linear relationship in 0.02~0.18 mg/mL and the linear regression equation was A=4.8536C-0.0031(r=0.9990),the recoveries of tea saponin at high,medium and low levels were 81.5%~10...