Was wondering if any folks here use coconut oil for cooking. The girlfriend does, it’s healthy I hear but I don’t know much about it
Anyone here cook with coconut oil?
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I have made soap out of coconut oil...
Yeah, there’s a soap I see at Giant eagle called Kirks that’s made with it
Use it and avocado oil. It is very good and light. I also use it to bake with as well a lot better tasting than vegetable oils and I have thyroid problems and vegetable oils (soybean oil) is very bad for my thyroid.
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Use it all the time.
The data says that it is questionable as to whether coconut oil is healthy to use or not. Some studies suggest that it is not a healthy choice.
It's recent surge in popularity really has more to do with trendy social media, where there have been a lot of unfounded claims of health benefits. So for now, I use it very sparingly. I will say, coconut oil makes chocolate chip cookies taste wonderful!
It's recent surge in popularity really has more to do with trendy social media, where there have been a lot of unfounded claims of health benefits. So for now, I use it very sparingly. I will say, coconut oil makes chocolate chip cookies taste wonderful!
It's awesome as shortening in chocolate coconut macaroon cookies. The coconut flavor is noticeable in chocolate chip cookies, too.
i use MCT oil from coconut with grass fed butter in my morning coffee aka bullet proof coffee + a few supplements. coconut oil along with other saturated fats like real butter, pig fat + tallow beef fat are stable HEALTHY fats unlike processed seed oils aka hydrogenated vegetable oils that are more like plastic!! depends who you believe big food looking for high profits or real nutritional health orientated Drs, EZE choice IMO!!
My cardiologist said oil/fat that is solid at room temperature isn't healthy (for me).
I'm too lazy to do proper researches and just listened and stopped using it. Wasn't a big fan of the taste anyway
I'm too lazy to do proper researches and just listened and stopped using it. Wasn't a big fan of the taste anyway
I read up on it last year when I decided I was going to use it. They're no longer touting it as 'healthy' due to its impact on your cholesterol levels. But, I'll use it before I use Canola.
A couple of years ago I experimented with coconut oil. In a stainless steel pan or pot (without a non-stick coating), food tried to stick to the bottom much more than with olive or most other oils. It didn't impress me as a general substitute.
Coconut and palm oils are satured and are solid at room temperature. What Popsy said his cardiologist told him makes sense. You don't want a lot of saturated fats in your bloodstream. I've heard horror stories of blood vessels having to be cleaned of congealed oils and fats during surgery. That's a physical process...
Coconut and palm oils are satured and are solid at room temperature. What Popsy said his cardiologist told him makes sense. You don't want a lot of saturated fats in your bloodstream. I've heard horror stories of blood vessels having to be cleaned of congealed oils and fats during surgery. That's a physical process...
I've used lots of coconut oil for the last 20 years and I'm 70 now. I eat 3-4 eggs a day too, and the choline in eggs helps to process lipids in the body, and I have good markers for blood lipids. Then my DO told me to eat eggs freely, and I do. 3 months of eating 3-4 eggs a day made my cholesterol go from 248 to under 200.
I feel good on saturated fats, from personal experience. I get interested in various diets, until they start preaching about the "dangers of saturated fats" and then they lose me. I do coconut oil, butter, and EVOO. No other food oils.
I feel good on saturated fats, from personal experience. I get interested in various diets, until they start preaching about the "dangers of saturated fats" and then they lose me. I do coconut oil, butter, and EVOO. No other food oils.
We have been Keto for four years, we use it all the time for baking. Saturated fats are good when your body depends on fats for energy instead of sugars.
Fear of fats and oils is a real thing that makes people fat.
No you shouldn't eat straight fat or drink oil, but for crying out loud, simple carbs and added sugar is what kills people. This is 2021. WAKE UP!
No you shouldn't eat straight fat or drink oil, but for crying out loud, simple carbs and added sugar is what kills people. This is 2021. WAKE UP!
Let me tell a little story that might make you think.
I used to give blood plasma for money years ago. Nurses at the plasma center warned donors to avoid fatty foods, in particular pork, the night before donating (if the appointment was in the morning) or during the day if donating later that day.
The plasma machines are entirely automated after you're hooked up. Normally the process would take about 45 minutes and your blood would look red and nearly clear in the tubing going to the machine. If I had eaten anything fatty, however, my blood would look yellowish and cloudy. The machine took longer to process, and the time could run nearly 2 hours. I quickly learned to avoid fatty foods before giving plasma.
This was long before coconut oil was in wide use. It would be interesting to try plasma donation now after using coconut oil to cook. Due to meds I'm on, however, I am indefinitely deferred from that now.
Seeing the results in my bloodstream myself made me wonder: the plasma machine took a lot longer, so how is my heart coping with pumping that kind of fat in the bloodstream? Suppose I made a steady diet of lots of fat? Some do, you know.
Fats and oils are not bad, and I'm not going to knock them. But too much of anything is never a good thing. Moderation is usually best for anything, including coconut oil.
I used to give blood plasma for money years ago. Nurses at the plasma center warned donors to avoid fatty foods, in particular pork, the night before donating (if the appointment was in the morning) or during the day if donating later that day.
The plasma machines are entirely automated after you're hooked up. Normally the process would take about 45 minutes and your blood would look red and nearly clear in the tubing going to the machine. If I had eaten anything fatty, however, my blood would look yellowish and cloudy. The machine took longer to process, and the time could run nearly 2 hours. I quickly learned to avoid fatty foods before giving plasma.
This was long before coconut oil was in wide use. It would be interesting to try plasma donation now after using coconut oil to cook. Due to meds I'm on, however, I am indefinitely deferred from that now.
Seeing the results in my bloodstream myself made me wonder: the plasma machine took a lot longer, so how is my heart coping with pumping that kind of fat in the bloodstream? Suppose I made a steady diet of lots of fat? Some do, you know.
Fats and oils are not bad, and I'm not going to knock them. But too much of anything is never a good thing. Moderation is usually best for anything, including coconut oil.
no luck with coconut as it sticks but use MCT oil + real butter in my morning joe thats my breakfast! real butter pig fat-bacon fat my fav + beef fat all saturated + SAFE. just seen on DR Davis wheat belly author how cholesterol is measured + only VLDL from an advanced test means anything, tryglycerides essentially VLDL is important + as noted its the carbs-sugars that are slowly killing people today!!
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