The Health Benefits of real Coconut oil

My ancestors used coconut oil and my ancestor's ancestors used it, coconut oil is a part of our long history and its benefits to our health.

Coconut in itself is very healthy for the body inside and out.

Back in History, the old folks knew how to extract the oil from the coconut without machinery or compromising the quality of the oil extracted nor does it have any additives.

Coconut oil, or copra oil, provides the oil that is good for consumption, it is extracted from the kernel or meat of mature coconuts harvested from the coconut palm (Cocos nucifera).

Coconut oil can be extracted two ways, through dry or wet processing.

Coconut oil has a high saturated fat content, it is slow to oxidize and, thus, resistant to rancidification, lasting up to six months at 24 °C (75 °F) without spoiling.

Because of its high levels of saturated fat, the World Health Organization, the United States Department of Health and Human Services, United States Food and Drug Administration, American Heart Association, American Dietetic Association, British National Health Service, British Nutrition Foundation, and Dietitians of Canada advise that coconut oil consumption should be limited or avoided.

The natural saturated fats increase the healthy cholesterol (known as HDL cholesterol) in your body, but also help convert the LDL “bad” cholesterol into good cholesterols thus increasing the HDL in the body, which promotes heart health and lowers the risk of heart disease.

For the dry process, the meat is taken from the shell of the coconut, then pressed or dissolved with solvents, producing the coconut oil and a high-protein, high-fiber mash.

The mashed meat is becoming unclean for human consumption as there is no process to extract protein from the mash. In the wet process, the protein in the coconut creates an emulsion of oil and water, the meat is boiled for a long period of time then other processes for breaking down into eatable oil include cold, heat, acids, salts, enzymes, electrolysis, shock waves, steam distillation and other pretreatments methods.

In this day and age, conventional methods are able to remove certain free fatty acids to reduce susceptibility to rancidification, due to coconut oil processors that now uses hexane as a solvent to extract up to 10% more oil than produced with just rotary mills and expellers.

The oil of the coconut is also good for those on a diet because of its effects on metabolism, due to the combination of fatty acids found in the oil As reference amount, in a 100 gram of coconut oil, supplies 890 Calories, which has half of the saturated fat content of coconut oil is lauric acid.

Coconut oil is used for baking, cooking, making products, hair nails, and skin treatment.

It is also used in soaps for the whole body and moisturizer. Acids that are harvested from coconut oil can be used as herbicides. Coconut oil comes refined and unrefined and unrefined, organic and non-organic.