What's The Deal With Liquid Coconut Oil?

[kyle]

Is it safe? Still have good metabolic properties? Have you any experience with it?

 

[Lizb]

The only time I've seen liquid coconut oil, it has other oils (pufa) in with it.

 

[Tenacity]

The only time I've seen liquid coconut oil, it has other oils (pufa) in with it.

Or it's just really hot...

 

[OceanSpray]

78° F

 

[Cirion]

r.i.p. OP because he had liquid coconut oil (sarcastic if it wasn't obvious)

in all seriousness, coconut oil quickly becomes liquid because your body is hotter than ambient air, so you always ingest coconut oil as a liquid ultimately.

 

[Pompadour]

Consumerlab talks about liquid coconut oil as refined. On the graph they show , refined coconut oil has more mct and less lauric and other fatty acides

 

[TripleOG]

Yea OP isn't talking about melted coconut oil.

There are "fractionated coconut oil" products that stay liquid at low temps, where normal coconut oil would be solidified. I don't know why they don't just label these "MCT oil" to minimize the confusion.

 

[Pompadour]

I don't know why they don't just label these "MCT oil" to minimize the confusion.

Because they still have quite a lot of lauric acid .

 

[TripleOG]

Because they still have quite a lot of lauric acid .

I wouldn't call ~10% "quite a lot," but I see what you're saying. Enough to barely differentiate itself from "MCT oil."

 

[milkboi]

So yeah, MCTs are beneficial

 

[tallglass13]

The Nutiva liquid Coconut that I have been using for frying has 0g Pufa according to the bottle. 14g total fat, 14g Sat fat.