Wed, Dec-28-05, 16:24
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Kitchen Experimenter
Posts: 3,260
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Plan: General LC Maintenance
Stats: 230/160/165
BF:way less now
Progress: 108%
Location: Pittsburgh
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an email from Drs Mike & Mary Eades or Staff
Dear Kevin,
Thanks so much for your letter and for your kind words about the show. Although we use coconut milk and coconut itself, we have not used coconut flour specifically in any of this season's shows. Indeed, coconut flour can serve as a replacement for a part of the flour in baked goods and other foods in which the taste of coconut is welcome. Coconut flour is more than half fiber and as such can lend bulk without a lot of carbs to many recipes. In baking, for instance, you could replace about one-fifth of the flour in a recipe without affecting the outcome much. In our baking recipes, if you were to use it, we'd probably suggest dropping the recommended almond meal by the amount of coconut flour you used.
Coconut oil has a wonderful fatty acid profile that offers many health benefits, particularly the immune boost of lauric acid.
Cordially,
The Drs. Eades
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