Coconut Oil and Sally Fallon

"Dr. Mercola's website claims that 2/3 of the saturated fat in coconut oil is medium chain triglycerides. I believe Dr. Mary Enig and Sally Fallon's book states the same thing"

I just went to www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/Data/ our governments web analysis tool and analyzed plain coconut oil for you guys and added up the numbers including the fractions so it would be exact. 100 grams of coconut oil contains 86.5 percent (grams) of saturated fat. It contains 14.1 (percent) grams of 6-10 chain (medium chain) saturated fats and 5.8 grams of monounsaturated fat. So it is most accurate to call it about 14 percent or those less harmfull MCT saturated fats (a relatively small amount) that these greasy coconut oil sales people hype up as the magic wonder part. Of course don't forget, even though I have said this hundreds of times here already--> the extracted oil contain less than one tenth of nature's valuable nutrients than the same amount of calories obtained from the whole food (coconut). When you eat more of the whole food and less oil, you increase the nutrient density of your diet. When you substitute oil for the nut, you dilute the nutrient density of your diet. I mix whole raw nuts into dressing recipes where others might use oil and the taste is even better and you gain nutritional benefits in the process.

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  1. Anonymous25 April 2010 at 08:49

    Actually the correct definition of MCT is between 6 and 12 carbon atoms in their structure.

    The below Fatty acid profile of coconut oil
    bears out the claim that 2/3 of the saturated fat in coconut oil is in fact made up of medium chain triglycerides as opposed most other saturated fats (animal fats) being made up of LCT's (Long Chain Trigs)

    Fatty acid

    Saturation Carbons Percent
    Lauric Saturated 12 47.5
    Myristic Saturated 14 18.1
    Palmitic Saturated 16 8.8
    Caprylic Saturated 8 7.8
    Capric Saturated 10 6.7
    Stearic Saturated 18 2.6
    Caproic Saturated 6 0.5
    Arachidic Saturated 20 0.1
    Oleic Monounsaturated 18 6.2
    Linoleic Polyunsaturated 18 1.6

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  2. Ed Terry3 July 2010 at 19:45

    The virgin coconut oil has a lauric acid percentage of 54.6%. Lauric acid does have a powerful effect on raising HDL and LDL. However, it raised HDL much more than LDL.

    I'm not sure of which nutrients you're referring to than are removed when the oil is separated. Could you provide more information?

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