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Fact About Coconut Oil Most universal Food among society of Polinesia and Asia is tubers of palem taro and rice and also coconut fruit. Tuber of taro and rice is the source of rich carbohydrate and fibre and also represent staple food for many islander, like grist and rice in part of other world. However in the case of nutrisi, this food fail to be compared to grist and rice because vitamin content and mineral per its slimmer volume.
Single other food which eaten by universal in that area is coconut. Coconut used as by food punch line by most of all people of Polinesia, Melanisia and asian. Coconut used as by flavour and food, isand also processed to become beverage. Its price become costly because rich coconut of content of oil, which can used by for all cookery. Coconut oil have long reputation and very respected by many culture in all the world, do not only as food, but also as efficacious drug. In India coconut oil represent important materials from some of ingredient medicinize Ayurweda. In Panama, Middle America, people drink coconut oil to assist to to overcome to feel pain in bone. In Jamaika, coconut oil considered to be health tonik which good to heart. Among people of Polinesia, coconut oil very valuable exceed all other crop in the case of merit and their health. healing merit by coconut have recognized old. passed to public. Coconut oil of moppet and baby which cannot digest other type fat. And palm oil represent especial materials in this part of milk of formula baby. Do not like other fat, palm oil protect us to heart sickness, cancer, diabetes and disease of other degeneratif. |
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Coconut oil is a triglyceride containing 86.5% saturated fatty acids, 5.8% monounsaturated fatty acids, and 1.8% polyunsaturated fatty acids. Of its saturated fatty acids, coconut oil is primarily 44.6% lauric acid,
16.8% myristic acid and 8.2% palmitic acid, though it contains seven different saturated fatty acids in total.
Its only monounsaturated fatty acid is oleic acid while its only polyunsaturated fatty acid is linoleic acid.
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The Philippines is studying the possibility of using virgin coconut oil to fight Sars, Department of Health (DOH) officials said. Virgin coconut oil comes from the flesh of freshly-harvested coconuts unlike the traditional coconut oil which comes from processed coconut flesh.
Health Secretary Manuel Dayrit said virgin coconut oil is high in lauric acid which has been found to be effective against lipid-coated viruses, like the one causing Sars.
Dayrit said his pharmacologist father had suggested the oil may be an effective tool against lipid-coated micro-organisms. (www.philippinenews.com) |
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