Fri, Apr-15-05, 04:58
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Plan: Raw Foodhist & Daoist
Stats: 170/160/145
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Progress: 40%
Location: NY
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Methods for Coconut Oil Extraction
“Virgin” is meaningless when it comes to coconut oil, there is no first pressing and second pressing – its just pressed.
RBD- Refined, Bleached & Deodorized; Chemical extraction.
Cold pressed –using an expeller, but it’s implied that they keep an eye on the temperature of the mix, but “Cold pressed” is an almost meaningless word. All of the oils below MAY BE marked cold pressed when high temperatures are used:
Expeller pressed – may be heated at high temperatures, may also use chemical extraction if it not labeled that it doesn’t use chemical extraction.
Centrifuged – spun about a central axis to separate the oil from the coconut meat.
NOTE: all coconut oils that are not marked that “no chemical extraction” probably used chemical extraction; all the good oils make sure they label that they did not use chemical extraction!
There is also a whole method of what they use to get the coconut oil from, live “meat” or dried copra and that’s a whole other story in itself. I prefer coconut oil made from live meat. It tastes a lot better and is higher quality. If it’s made from copra, its allowed to ferment for 48 to who knows how long.
I emailed the companies I got coconut oil from to find out the details of their methods. The less it’s heated, the more “alive” is it. If you are using if for cooking, this is not that important.
Overall, I have tried them all, and I prefer centrifuged from live meat that has not been heated much. It’s expensive! If you truly want the best coconut oil, you can’t get the cheap kind.
I noticed the first time I used the good coconut oil, that I was breathing much deeper and my temperature seemed to get a bit higher. Over the last few months, I used around a gallon of it and I lost a few inches of belly fat (they say it targets belly fat). Before that, I used it sparingly because I could only find small 16 oz containers of it, and it didn’t seem to do much. But I was hardly using any. Now I use it like mad; I take around 1 Fluid OZ with breakfast everyday and use it for baking and frying.
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