Among their sponsors include canola oil, which might help explain why they're more prone to recommend vegetable
oils than coconut oil.
Not exact matches
Virgin
coconut oil has a longer shelf - life
than traditional
oils due to naturally - occurring MCTs.
While I've always loved olive and
coconut oil, I've recently been studying the work of Dr. Greger and Dr. Esselstyn who recommend getting fats from whole foods rather
than oils.
Not just
coconut or MCT
oil - Brain Octane is made with only the best parts of the
coconut, which metabolize more efficiently into ketone energy
than more common
oils.
Coconut oil is as high in calories as are other oils, so if you're looking to lose weight it's best to replace other cooking oils with coconut oil, rather than simply adding more oil into you
Coconut oil is as high in calories as are other
oils, so if you're looking to lose weight it's best to replace other cooking
oils with
coconut oil, rather than simply adding more oil into you
coconut oil, rather
than simply adding more
oil into your diet.
This makes
coconut oil healthier
than other
oils, which can oxidize and produce free - radicals when heated.
~ Super nourishing and luxurious body butter (recipe from Living the Nourished Life) using nothing more
than coconut oil and optional essential
oils!
Coconut oil is said to be a «dry»
oil — it's lighter and less greasy
than other
oils.
They have begun to wake up to the fact that Western advice on dietary
oils, which has led to the demonization of their traditional fats and
oils like
coconut oil, has been primarily political in nature, rather
than scientific.
Yes,
coconut oil is a saturated fat with medium chain triglycerides (MCT), which makes it more digestible to provide energy and healthier
than other
oils.
It's easy to conclude from those two animal studies alone that virgin
coconut oil is a superior dietary
oil for health and is safer to use as a cooking
oil than other popular unsaturated fat cooking
oils.
The only specific foods I don't eat include vegetable
oils (other
than extra virgin olive
oil or
coconut oil) and hydrogenated fats, any non-fermented soy products, refined sugars, or food with artificial colours or flavours.
Sadly, once people in the United States started learning the truth about the health benefits of
coconut oil, many producers of «extra virgin»
coconut oil appeared in the Philippines with products that sold for many times more
than the refined
coconut oils found in all their grocery stores, trying to capitalize on the success of the U.S. market.
However, some studies with virgin
coconut indicate that the special diets containing virgin
coconut oil reduce serum cholesterol levels more
than the special diets containing mainly polyunsaturated
oils.
Refined
coconut oil is still healthier
than other cooking
oils, so I'd go with that first.
Tropical Traditions was the first company to import virgin
coconut oil from the Philippines in 2002, and it remains one of the only premium
coconut oils in the United States that is still produced using traditional methods, rather
than being mass - produced by machine.
It's much cheaper
than other brands but is pure
coconut oil and has all the benefits, (i read a blog from someone who investigated this over other more expensive
oils) just «over» refined so it's lost it's taste, so it's good for regular cooking where you don't want it to be coconutty or if you don't want to use the expensive tasty
oil and «waste» it.
There is a wide body of research now looking at the health benefits of
coconut oil, specifically virgin
coconut oil, which is less refined
than machine - made commercial
coconut oils.
Finally, it should be noted that while this study showed that virgin
coconut oils using the wet - milling process had higher levels of antioxidants
than refined
coconut oils, that this in no way implicates refined
coconut oil as unhealthy.
Refined
coconut oils, or even other «virgin»
coconut oils that are mass produced by machine and do not use the wet - milling process, are still very good
oils, and far better
than the polyunsaturated
oils that are widely used, many of which are genetically modified (this would include canola
oil!)
In the smoke point values presented above at the beginning of this section, we suspect that the
coconut oil and EVOO were less refined
than the safflower
oil and canola
oil, such that the much higher smoke points of the safflower
oil and canola
oil were not due to the plants from which these
oils were obtained, but to the way that they were processed.
Tropical Traditions Virgin
Coconut Oil is traditionally made from fresh organic coconuts, and independent laboratory tests show that it has a higher level of antioxidants than other coconu
Coconut Oil is traditionally made from fresh organic
coconuts, and independent laboratory tests show that it has a higher level of antioxidants
than other
coconutcoconut oils.
Tropical Traditions Gold Label Virgin
Coconut Oil is traditionally made from fresh organic coconuts, and independent laboratory tests show that it has a higher level of antioxidants than other coconu
Coconut Oil is traditionally made from fresh organic
coconuts, and independent laboratory tests show that it has a higher level of antioxidants
than other
coconutcoconut oils.
Laboratory tests done on our Gold Label Virgin
Coconut Oil, for example, have shown that levels of the polyphenol antioxidants are higher than coconut oils that are produced with (supposedly) no heat - in some cases twice a
Coconut Oil, for example, have shown that levels of the polyphenol antioxidants are higher
than coconut oils that are produced with (supposedly) no heat - in some cases twice a
coconut oils that are produced with (supposedly) no heat - in some cases twice as high.
Coconut oil is more nutritious and less processed
than standard vegetable or canola
oils.
Testing done in independent laboratories on
coconut oil antioxidants reveals higher levels of phenolic antioxidants
than other
coconut oils.
If you chose to use more
than the amount of essential
oils that I recommend in the recipe and it causes your mouth to burn, trying swishing some olive or
coconut oil in your mouth to further dilute.
As I'm reading the ingredients to Enfail it reads, «Reduced Minerals Whey, Nonfat Milk, Vegetable
Oil (Palm Olein, Soy,
Coconut, and High Oleic Sunflower
Oils), Lactose,» and continued with «less
than 1 % of the following».
i use
coconut and calendula
oils mixed along with the olive
oil and sometimes almod
oil and i find this home made version much better
than store bought.
Carrington's Liquid
Coconut Cooking
Oil is even useful for frying since it has a higher heat point
than traditional olive
oils.
Fats -
coconut oil (organic, virgin, cold expeller pressed) is healthier
than most other
oils.
«In our mouse experiments, olive
oil produced essentially identical effects as Plenish — more obesity
than coconut oil, although less
than conventional soybean
oil — and very fatty livers, which was surprising as olive
oil is typically considered to be the healthiest of all the vegetable
oils,» said Poonamjot Deol, an assistant project scientist working in Sladek's lab and the co-first author of the research paper.
What the researchers found was that mice fed a diet with either of the soybean
oils had worse fatty liver, glucose intolerance and obesity
than the group that got all their fat from
coconut oil.
Avocado is not a typical allergen and fewer people are allergic to avocado
oil than coconut or nut - based
oils.
As a quick note, the solution to all of these major problems with vegetable
oils is to use healthy
oils like
coconut oil, olive
oil, macadamia
oil, avocado
oil, and grass - fed butter, all of which are MUCH healthier
than vegetable
oils and don't cause any of the problems we've described in this section of the article.
They have begun to wake up to the fact that Western advice on dietary
oils, which has led to the demonization of their traditional fats and
oils like
coconut oil, has been primarily political in nature, rather
than scientific.
Organic butter from pastured cows costs 5 - 10 times as much as margarines and spreads, olive
oil is way more expensive
than canola
oil or the other garbage vegetable
oils, and
coconut oil, lard, and other REAL FOOD fats are not even available in your ordinary grocery store.
I know, I know we have all been brainwashed into believing that these vegetable
oils are better for you
than «artery clogging saturated fat» such as butter,
coconut oil and lard.
Vegetable
oils like soy, corn and even canola would be far worse choices for cooking
than liquid
coconut oil.
Would liquid
coconut oil be a better choice
than vegetable
oils?
If you (or anyone else reading this) can show me a study where they did the same tests as on animal fats etc. on cold pressed virgin
coconut oil and demonstrated that it actually damaged the epithelial cells rather
than just extrapolating from tests on other
oils, I would greatly appreciate it.
If you're new to some of the information I teach here and don't yet understand why
coconut oil is better for you
than soybean and other highly processed polyunsaturated
oils, then this article that I wrote is a must - read:
Coconut oil has a higher smoke point
than most other
oils and doesn't wreck havoc in your body like other
oils used in cooking can after cooking.
It is a wholefoods diet consisting of beans, grains, fresh vegetables, very little fruit, no potatoes, no pasta, no fried foods, no
oils other
than extra virgin
coconut oil, ghee, olive
oil, and cold pressed sesame.
Scientific research shows that
coconut oil is metabolized differently
than most other
oils.
For example, instead of using
coconut oil which is going to plug up your arteries, instead Eat The Coconut itself, whole foods are always better than processed foods, and all oils are processed
coconut oil which is going to plug up your arteries, instead Eat The
Coconut itself, whole foods are always better than processed foods, and all oils are processed
Coconut itself, whole foods are always better
than processed foods, and all
oils are processed foods!
Foods other
than oils can contribute as much or more saturated fat, e.g. adding a can of
coconut milk to a recipe adds as much saturated fat as about 1.5 cups of olive
oil; 1 avocado has more saturated fat
than 2 tbsp of olive
oil, and an oz of several types of nuts and seeds have the almost the same amount as 1 tbsp
oil.
You can store
coconut oil much longer
than other
oils because it does not go rancid easily.
Coconut oil is an excellent
oil to use for cooking since it is far less likely to be damaged through heating, it can take a much higher temperature
than most other
oils without being damaged and thereby causing you health concerns.
CORRECTION: An earlier version stated incorrectly that
coconut oil has a higher smoking point
than other
oils.