Experts are coming to realize the tremendous health benefits of consuming coconut oil daily. Supermodels, athletes, celebrities, and more are blending coconut oil into their diet for healthy young skin. As well as aiding in weight loss, refined coconut oil can be blended with other essential oils for lavish perfumes, soaps, lotions, and more. Natural plant-based saturated fats can be a very good thing.
Our oil is refined, contains no trans fats, and contains the vital essences of the coconut fruit for your health and beauty needs. Coconut oil is an edible oil extracted from the kernel or meat of matured coconut harvested from the coconut palm (Cocos nucifera). Throughout the tropical world it has provided the primary source of fat in the diets of millions of people for generations. Both refined and unrefined coconut oils have the same nutritional benefits.
It has various applications in food, medicine, and industry.
Coconut oil is very heat stable so is suited to methods of cooking at high temperatures like frying. Because of its stability it is slow to oxidize and thus resistant to rancidity, lasting up to two years due to high saturated fat content. Refined coconut oil comes from dried coconut meat that is steam refined (no chemicals are used in the process). Refined coconut oil has a neutral flavor, meaning you can use it as a substitute for butter without making the recipe taste like coconut.
Some benefits include:
- Helps with food digestion and eliminates toxic bacteria in the gut
- Increases levels of “good” HDL cholesterol and decreases levels of “bad” LDL cholesterol
- Provides burn relief and treats wounds
- Protects against UV rays, making it a natural sunblock (don’t use it instead of sunscreen, though—look for a sunscreen with coconut oil.
- Boosts brain health
- Increases energy and endurance
*** Refined Coconut Oil solidifies at 76 degrees Fahrenheit, it will liquefy quickly at any temperature higher than 76F without loss of oil properties (unless exposed to extremely high temperatures such as cooking). Oil may arrive hardened due to shipping. ***
