Coconut Oil

Get it warmer than room temperature? :P

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I have been reading about the benefits of taking coconut oil. Three
teaspoons a day is recommended but how do you take an oil that is solid at
room temperature?

Thanks

Buy a can of coconut milk and make a curry. :-)

Seriously, coconut milk is very low carb, and delicious. It can be mixed
with just about anything to make a nice creamy soup or drink. Or dessert.

Skinny
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Philip Wade said:

I have been reading about the benefits of taking coconut oil. Three
teaspoons a day is recommended but how do you take an oil that is solid

at

Quoted message said:

room temperature?

In article <[email hidden]>,
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Quoted message said:

I have been reading about the benefits of taking coconut oil. Three
teaspoons a day is recommended but how do you take an oil that is solid at
room temperature?

Thanks

Warm it slightly and add it to whatever other oil you use for salad
dressing.
My favorite way is to just melt it and take a tablespoon about a half
hour before working out. MCT rocks.
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It's also a great oil for frying because it has a high smoke point and
doesn't break down to transfat as easily as other oils.

Kevin Martin (Homebrewer) said:

Warm it slightly and add it to whatever other oil you use for salad
dressing.
My favorite way is to just melt it and take a tablespoon about a half
hour before working out. MCT rocks.

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Bev

Ignoramus32597 said:

I have not seen it in stores...

Look for it in a health food store. It should be in solid form.

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i

In article said:

It's also a great oil for frying because it has a high smoke point and
doesn't break down to transfat as easily as other oils.

Kevin Martin (Homebrewer) said:

Warm it slightly and add it to whatever other oil you use for salad
dressing.
My favorite way is to just melt it and take a tablespoon about a half
hour before working out. MCT rocks.

Bev

I get it from my natural foods grocery store. It's in plastic bottles.

Ignoramus32597 said:

I have not seen it in stores...

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Bev

Ignoramus32597 said:

I have not seen it in stores...

I have seen it in the health food section of my grocery. Very cheap. But
it's in a very weird shaped bottle for a fat that is not "pourable". It
has such a slim neck one would think it was salad dressing. So when I want
coconut I just buy coconut milk and cook stuff in that. Coconut is good
for people who are hypothyroid, apparently.

Ignoramus32597 said:

Thanks CM and others. Just what is coconut milk, what is it composed
of? I know that it comes from the interior of a coconut and I drank it
before, but I do not know what it is, is it mainly water or mainly
fat?

It's been quite a while since I've used/purchased any, but I think the
"milk" is simply a very high-fat liquid. When I buy coconut milk in a can
(usually found in the "drink mixer" section of a grocery store) and I open
it without shaking, there is an awful lot of solid cream by proportion in
it.

That's my best guess. Hopefully someone with more knowledge about it can
post.

In Ignoramus32597 said:

In article said:

Ignoramus32597 said:

I have not seen it in stores...

I have seen it in the health food section of my grocery. Very cheap.
But it's in a very weird shaped bottle for a fat that is not
"pourable". It has such a slim neck one would think it was salad
dressing. So when I want coconut I just buy coconut milk and cook
stuff in that. Coconut is good for people who are hypothyroid,
apparently.

Thanks CM and others. Just what is coconut milk, what is it composed
of? I know that it comes from the interior of a coconut and I drank it
before, but I do not know what it is, is it mainly water or mainly
fat?

i

If you drank the liquid in the center of the coconut, that is coconut
water...tasty, but mostly sugar and really no fat. coconut milk is from
the solid part of the coconut..it's been grated and processed with hot
water to get the coconut milk..that has a lot of fat. 🙂

Crafting Mom said:

Ignoramus32597 said:

Thanks CM and others. Just what is coconut milk, what is it composed
of? I know that it comes from the interior of a coconut and I drank it
before, but I do not know what it is, is it mainly water or mainly
fat?

It's been quite a while since I've used/purchased any, but I think the
"milk" is simply a very high-fat liquid. When I buy coconut milk in a can
(usually found in the "drink mixer" section of a grocery store) and I open
it without shaking, there is an awful lot of solid cream by proportion in
it.

The stuff that you get from the inside of a coconut is mainly water,
and isn't particularly fattening (or carby). However, when you buy
commercial coconut milk, that's made by grating coconuts, pressing it
out, and mixing the expressed stuff with water. (If you don't mix it
with water, you get coconut cream.) Coconut milk is very high in fat,
but low in carbohydrate.

I was just posting about coconut milk elsewhere. I use it a lot, and it's a
staple in Asian cooking. They use it kind of like some USians use condensed
milk or cream: as a base for sauces, soups, drinks, desserts.... Rich rice
dishes can be made by cooking the rice in coconut milk instead of in water
(all or part), and it might make the rice carbs a little slower to absorb.

I get Chaokoh (fewer additives) in the supermarket on the oriental foods
shelf, along with water chestnuts, soy sauce, etc. It's cheaper in an Asian
import food store if you have one handy. Or various other brands in the
Asian store.

Sometimes I use Thai Kitchen (check the label) from the organic produce
store -- oddly more additives. It tends to be thinner than the other
brands: more of the 'coconut water' and less of the 'fat/oil.'

They both separate in the can if kept in a cool cupboard or in fridge, so
you can use either part you want or mix to taste. (Thai Kitchen separates
more cleanly.) I love the cool crust of the 'fat' as a treat, it reminds me
of some very expensive after dinner thin candy sort of thing, tastes like
slightly sweetened whipped cream.... (But then I'm wierd, I eat cold butter
the same way.)

Dunno how the actual oil content compares with a refined oil marketed as a
supplement, or if the supplement is trying to leave out some of the stuff
that's in the fat. That said, if I wanted a measured amount, I'd take off
some crust, warm it till it was liquid and measure the right amount, then
cool it again and eat it as 'candy'. Or let it get a bit thicker and use it
like whipped cream, on fruit or something.

mimsy said:

In Ignoramus32597 said:

In article said:

Ignoramus32597 wrote:

> I have not seen it in stores...

I have seen it in the health food section of my grocery. Very cheap.
But it's in a very weird shaped bottle for a fat that is not
"pourable". It has such a slim neck one would think it was salad
dressing. So when I want coconut I just buy coconut milk and cook
stuff in that.

Me too.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Coconut is good for people who are hypothyroid,
apparently.

Dunno about that, but Indian curries are said to be comparatively 'low
glycemic' (ie slow carbs) considering their ingredients. Might be from
their spices. There was a good thread on that at alt.support.diabetes a
while ago.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Thanks CM and others. Just what is coconut milk, what is it composed
of? I know that it comes from the interior of a coconut and I drank it
before, but I do not know what it is, is it mainly water or mainly
fat?

i

If you drank the liquid in the center of the coconut, that is coconut
water...tasty, but mostly sugar and really no fat. coconut milk is from
the solid part of the coconut..it's been grated and processed with hot
water to get the coconut milk..that has a lot of fat. 🙂

My impression is that the cans of 'coconut milk' I buy have some of both.
I've drunk the liquid straight out of a fresh coconut, and it is like the
liquid that separates in the bottom of the can. According to the label the
'sugar' content of the whole can isn't much, and to me the fat tastes as
sweet as the liquid.

Skinny

I see nothing good about coconut oil. It is recommended by the
people selling coconut oil and by quacks.

Here is an unbiased study on coconut oil:

A Malaysian study (Ng et al., 1991) was conducted to compare the
effects of diets containing palm oil (olein), corn oil and coconut oil
on serum cholesterol. Coconut oil raised serum total cholesterol by >
10% whereas both corn and palm oil diet reduced the total cholesterol;
corn oil diet reduced the total cholesterol by 36% and palm oil diet
by 19%.

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Philip Wade said:

I have been reading about the benefits of taking coconut oil. Three
teaspoons a day is recommended but how do you take an oil that is solid at
room temperature?

Thanks

And:

A Netherlands study was conducted on rabbits to test the effect of
palm oil on atherosclerosis (Hornstra, 1988). After feeding the
rabbits for 11/2 years, palm oil and sunflower oil diets caused the
lowest degree of atherosclerosis in comparison with fish oil, linseed
oil and olive oil.

Similarly Kurfeld et al. (1990) in the United States, also using the
rabbit model, compared the effects of palm oil with hydrogenated
coconut oil, cottonseed oil, hydrogenated cottonseed oil, and an
American fat blend containing a mixture of butterfat, tallow, lard,
shortening, salad oil, peanut oil and corn oil. At the end of the
14-month feeding period, coconut oil fed rabbits had the most
atherosclerotic lesions, while in palm oil-fed rabbits the number of
lesions was no different from that with the other oils.
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I recommend you avoid coconut oil. It is proved by unbiased studies
to be hazardous to your health.

PJx said:

I see nothing good about coconut oil. It is recommended by the
people selling coconut oil and by quacks.

Here is an unbiased study on coconut oil:

A Malaysian study (Ng et al., 1991) was conducted to compare the
effects of diets containing palm oil (olein), corn oil and coconut oil
on serum cholesterol. Coconut oil raised serum total cholesterol by >
10% whereas both corn and palm oil diet reduced the total cholesterol;
corn oil diet reduced the total cholesterol by 36% and palm oil diet
by 19%.

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Philip Wade said:

I have been reading about the benefits of taking coconut oil. Three
teaspoons a day is recommended but how do you take an oil that is solid at
room temperature?

Thanks

Quoted message said:

Similarly Kurfeld et al. (1990) in the United States, also using the
rabbit model, compared the effects of palm oil with hydrogenated
coconut oil,

Why hydrogenated? It's a well known fact that hydrogenated oils are bad. What
about UNprocessed coconut oil? Any of your "unbiased" studies on that?

Philip Wade said:

I have been reading about the benefits of taking coconut oil. Three
teaspoons a day is recommended but how do you take an oil that is solid at
room temperature?

I probably take that much butter each day and it's solid at room
temperature. Coconut oil is softer than butter, so you could use
it sort of like those spreadible-margarine deals. Squeeze it on
something and spread it with a knife.

It also works fine for frying, rather like butter or lard.

Either way it will seem strange at first and take some getting
used to it, then in a month or so you will notice that once you
are used to it you like it. Think of it as a learning curve.

Doug Freyburger said:

Philip Wade said:

I have been reading about the benefits of taking coconut oil. Three
teaspoons a day is recommended but how do you take an oil that is solid at
room temperature?

I probably take that much butter each day and it's solid at room
temperature. Coconut oil is softer than butter, so you could use
it sort of like those spreadible-margarine deals. Squeeze it on
something and spread it with a knife.

It also works fine for frying, rather like butter or lard.

Either way it will seem strange at first and take some getting
used to it, then in a month or so you will notice that once you
are used to it you like it. Think of it as a learning curve.

It is the best oil for making omlettes. I was very dissappointed that
my Trader Joe's stopped carrying it, apparently I was the only one
buying it. They sold it in a jar and I noticed that it liquifies at
about 80 degrees. When it was cooler than that in my house it would be
a white solid - easier to measure that way actually. I'm hoping they
bring it back, sometimes they do.

brigdi

Ignoramus32597 said:

In article said:

And:

A Netherlands study was conducted on rabbits to test the effect of
palm oil on atherosclerosis (Hornstra, 1988). After feeding the
rabbits for 11/2 years, palm oil and sunflower oil diets caused the
lowest degree of atherosclerosis in comparison with fish oil, linseed
oil and olive oil.

I have nothing to say about benefits or dangers of coconut oil, but I
want to point out that people are not rabbits and we have completely
different digestive systems. Feeding rabbits with meat has terrible
effect on them, whereas feeding people meat does not. Rabbits are not
omnivores like us.

i

In 1988, they probably used partially hydrogenated oils.

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