How virgin coconut oil is processed is the key to optimizing its taste,
texture, color, and aroma. Within two hours of 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 cold-pressed, Organic extra-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 the
Coconut oil are from the coconut fiber and are indigenous to extra-virgin
coconut oil.
Coconut oil is about 50 percent lauric acid, a rare medium-chain fatty acid
found in mother’s milk that supports healthy metabolism and is now being studied
for its anti-fungal, anti-viral, and anti-bacterial health-protecting
properties. Overall, coconut oil contains 92% saturated fats, and only 1%
Omega-6, the fat Americans get way too much of.
The FDA started requiring the labeling of "trans fats" in 2006, and as a
result, the entire fat category is undergoing a review of its traditions and
assumptions. Hemp and coconut oil products deliver the nourishing "good fats",
which can play a vital role in our health. Millions of Americans are questioning
the outmoded assumptions regarding "zero fat is good", "tropical fats are bad",
and "lots of vegetable oils are beneficial".
The traditional Pacific Islander diet included large quantities of coconut
meat and oil, and those who still follow this diet have a low incidence of heart
disease or weight issues. When a Western-style diet including vegetable oils
replaces their traditional, all of the fat-related diseases common in the
developed nations, such as coronary heart disease begins to appear, their immune
systems get weaker and serum cholesterol levels go up.
Besides its nutritional value, pure coconut oil also makes a luscious and
soothing massage and body oil for dry and/or damaged skin
Organic Extra Virgin Coconut Oil
Size: 15oz
