Sentences with phrase «including lauric»

Coconut CO2 is packed with beneficial fatty acids to protect, revitalize, and moisturize the skin, including lauric acid, myristic acid, palmitic acid, and carpylic acids.

It also enriches the baby's skin because it is a powerhouse of vitamin E. Both coconut oil and breast milk include lauric acid, which gives it the ability to combat baby acne.

According to a recent book «Becoming raw» (2010) by two experts on vegan nutrition, namely, Davis and Melina, saturated fatty acids differ depending on the length of their carbon chain and include lauric acid, myristic acid, palmitic acid and stearic acid.

Not exact matches

Butter is rich in short and medium chain fatty acids, including even small amounts of lauric acid.

No matter which coconut oil you prefer, both will contain 63 % medium chain triglycerides, including 50 % lauric acid.

The oil contains about half lauric acid, a medium - chain triglyceride that has a number of health - promoting properties, including the ability to improve levels of good HDL cholesterol (The Netherlands).

Dr. Mary Enig suggests the average adult include about 3.5 tablespoons of coconut oil per day in their diet to take in an equivalent amount of lauric acid that a nursing infant would receive from breast milk.

Just like breast milk, coconut oil contains lauric acid, a healthy saturated fat, and with that comes many positive health benefits including better brain function, weight loss, and protection against harmful bacteria, viruses, and fungi.

The saturated medium - chain fatty - acid lauric acid (LA) has been associated to certain health - promoting benefits of coconut oil intake, including the improvement of the quality of life in breast cancer patients during chemotherapy.

It's true that certain saturated fatty acids have been reported to raise LDL cholesterol levels, including palmitic, myristic and lauric acid, which make up a large portion of milk fat (14).

Recent research has shown that mothers who include a source of lauric acid, such as coconut oil, in their diets have lower risk of infecting their nursing infants.

They include caproic acid (C6), caprylic acid (C8), capric acid (C10) and lauric acid (C12).

Coconut oil provides a mix of all the medium - chain fats, including C6, C8, C10 and C12 fats, the latter of which (lauric acid) makes up over 40 percent of the fat in coconut oil.

Once the lauric acid and other long - chain fatty acids are gone, you're still left with a lot of good stuff, including medium chain fatty acids like capric, caprylic, myristic and palmitic, all of which retain their super-moisturizing capabilities.

Remember, coconut oil is predominantly lauric acid, which has many benefits, including antimicrobial.

There are a number of foods feature MCTs, including palm kernel oil and butter from grass - fed animals, but coconuts offer the highest levels of lauric acid hands down The MCT content of coconuts is roughly 44 - to 53 - percent of their total fatty acid content.

Other uses for lauric acid include treatment of bronchitis, gonorrhea, yeast infections, chlamydia, intestinal infections caused by a parasite called Giardia lamblia, and ringworm.»

From WebMD: «Lauric acid is used for treating viral infections including influenza (the flu); swine flu; avian flu; the common cold; fever blisters, cold sores, and genital herpes caused by herpes simplex virus (HSV); genital warts caused by human papillomavirus (HPV); and HIV / AIDS.

It contains about 50 % lauric acid, which helps in preventing various heart problems including high cholesterol levels and high blood pressure.

Triglycerides containing lauric acid can be digested into monolaurin, which has activity against a wide variety of bacteria, fungi, and viruses, including Candida, staph, H. pylori, influenza, Epstein - Barr, measles and HIV.12

This is a potential point of confusion, because if lauric acid is included we would say that coconut oil is 60 percent medium - chain fatty acids, when only 15 percent of its fatty acids would behave similarly to those found in MCT oil.

And while the fat in coconut oil is highly saturated, of that saturated fat much of it is medium chain rather than long chain fatty acids, including a high percentage of the healthy fat Lauric acid.

All the medium chain fatty acids normally found in coconut oil, including caprylic acid (C - 8), capric acid (C - 10), and lauric acid (C - 12) are known to have the advantage of being easily transported into the mitochondria and therefore, more immediately available for caloric energy.

I like to use coconut oil because it's high in helpful fatty acids including medium - chain triglycerides (the structure of this type of saturated fat means that it is metabolised efficiently by the body, boosting energy expenditure) and lauric acid (a type of fatty acid which has been shown to have beneficial effects against pathogens like bacteria, fungi and viruses).

Cocovít Coconut Oil: Rich in antioxidants and healthy acids, including capric, caprylic, myristic, and lauric acid.