The Facts About Coconut Oil And Essential Fatty Acids

Posted 8 September, 2008 in Nutrition and Fitness Resources

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 essential fatty acids.

How To Use extra-virgin coconut oil

Coconut oil is ideal as a high-heat cooking oil, a “better than butter” replacement on bread and steamed veggies, or a tasty and nutritious substitute for shortening in baking.

We suggest you use virgin 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 essential fatty acids 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 two hours of Nutiva’s coconuts being chopped, the virgin coconut oil is cold-pressed. Contrast this with 99 percent of the coconut oil used today in cooking and body care. First, the coconut is chopped and left to dry in the sun for days. Then the meat is scooped out and sent thousands of miles to giant oil mills where the oxidizing coco meat is refined, bleached, and/or deodorized. Ironically, this product is often labeled as “certified organic.”

There is no comparison between Nutiva’s cold-pressed, Organic virgin 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 virgin coconut oil.

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