Coconut oil is about 50 percent lauric acid, a rare medium-chain fatty acid found in mother’s milk that is now being shown to have anti-fungal, anti-viral, and anti-bacterial health-protecting properties. Some researchers predict that lauric acid will become as well known in health circles as Omega-3 is today. Overall, coconut oil contains 92% saturated fats, and only 1% Omega-6, the fat Americans get way too much of. Use it to boost your intake of the good fats.
How To Use virgin coconut oil
Coconut oil is best used in high heat cooking, or as a spread on bread and veggies, or a more nutritious version of shortening for baking.
We suggest you use coconut oil for cooking, and olive (a heat-sensitive oil with a low smoke point), hemp, and flax oils for cold dressings. This will help increase your levels of healthy Lauric Acid, Omega-3, and GLA fatty acids, while lowering your intake of Omega-6 and junk oils. While we need to consume a 3:1 ratio of Omega-6s to good fats and Omega-3s, the average American diet provides a ratio of 15:1 and often 30:1 !
Advantages of Nutiva Product
The processing of coconut oil is the key to its color, aroma, texture and taste. Within several hours of chopping Nutiva’s coconuts, the unrefined coconut oil is cold-pressed. Most coconut oil is made from dried copra which has been left to dry in the sun for days, then refined and bleached. Ironically, this product is often labeled as “certified organic.”
There is no comparison between Nutiva’s cold-pressed, Organic coconut oil , with its light taste, pleasant aroma, and pure white color, and industrialized coconut oil, with its bland taste, faint aroma, and off-white color. Please note that any tiny brown specks found at the bottom of Nutiva’s Coconut oil are from the coconut fiber and are indigenous to coconut oil .
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