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Do You Know Coconut Oil Is One Of The Healthiest Foods On The Planet .
Coconut oil is a staple food in many parts of the world. You can travel to Thailand, the Caribbean, parts of Brazil, countries in Africa, and the vast southern half of India and find this oil on center stage when it comes to delicious and healthy cuisine. The popularity of this oil is partly due to its stability, ease of use in cooking, and taste.
From a nutritional standpoint, coconut oil is very unusual. It contains very little polyunsaturated fat (about 2%) and also very little monounsaturated fat (about 6%). The vast majority of the fatty acids contained in coconut oil is saturated fatty acids, and they account for about 85% of all the fat in coconut oil. When fats contain so many saturated fatty acids, they are often solid instead of liquid, and so it is unusual for a liquid oil to contain this high proportion of them. The type of saturated fatty acids contained in coconut oil is also unusual. Saturated fatty acids in foods are usually broken down into three groups: short chain (very short in length), medium chain (intermediate in length), and long chain (long in length). Unlike the long-chain saturated fatty acids (for example, palmitic acid) found in many animal fats, the saturated fatty acids contained in coconut oil are mostly medium length. In fact, about half of all the saturated fat in coconut oil comes from lauric acid, a medium-length saturated fatty acid.
We have had too many years of saturating ourselves with this saturated fat and it continues to bless our lives, our health and our waistlines.