✨***Coconut facts***✨
🥥 Coconuts are used for their water, o..
🕑 Added 2022-04-13 22:05:25 +0000 UTC
✨***Coconut facts***✨
🥥 Coconuts are used for their water, oil, milk & delicious meat
🥥They contain protein, several important minerals like manganese, iron & copper, and small amounts of B vitamins
🥥Coconuts are a high fat fruit deriving from coconut palm
🥥Coconut palms originated in Southeast Asia & are found all over the globe
🥥Much of the fat in coconut is in the form of medium-chain triglycerides - (Your body metabolizes MCTs differently than other types of fats, absorbing them directly from your small intestine and rapidly using them for energy ( I recommend doing your own research to look further into this and also the studies being developed about people with obesity obtaining fat from MCT’s rather than alternative fat sources ))
🥥they contain powerful antioxidants:
gallic acid
caffeic acid
salicylic acid
p-coumaric acid
🥥They have antibacterial properties, & moisturizing properties to help prevent skin oxidation, and thus are used for lotion and as mouthwash even! (Look up oil-pulling)
🥥Flaked, shaved, raw meat, milked or in cream form, coconut is very easy to add to the diet!
(Photos taken in Guanacaste, Costa Rica)