COCONUT OIL WARNING

Are you actually purchasing partially fractionated coconut oil which is being sold as "extra virgin" coconut oil? 

There are several reasons why we seldom visit other web sites which offer coconut oil:

• since Coconut Oil Supreme™ is unlike any other oil in the marketplace there is really no point in checking to see what prices other sites are charging. Since the product is not the same there is nothing to compare.
• we never try to compete on price. Our goal is always to provide the best oil available at any price and to do it at the best possible price.

That having been said, our curiosity caused us to check a web site which we heard was offering coconut oil containing 57% lauric acid. Since there are no coconuts which have a lauric acid content of 57% we wondered what sort of product they were offering.

The site describes this oil as "extra virgin, certified organic, centrifuge extracted."

The description of the oil includes a paragraph about lauric acid, one of the fatty acids which make up coconut oil and the site says: "Our special centrifuged oil, unlike all the others, contains a whopping 57% lauric acid!! In addition, this coconut oil is higher in medium chain fatty acids than any other coconut oil we have seen,..." They mention that the coconut milk emulsion is separated into pure oil and a "skim" coconut milk.

This all sounds good until you look a little closer. The term "virgin" is used to describe coconut oil which is unrefined, unmodified and pure. Many companies have chosen to use the term "extra virgin" (from the olive oil industry) to describe their oil, implying that it is somehow better than "virgin" oil. In fact the oil above should not really even be described as "virgin" since it is actually a partially fractionated coconut oil.

Coconut oil is made up of a combination of fatty acids (fractions), including lauric acid. The total of all of these fractions equals 100%. If the lauric acid content is 57%  compared to a natural range of 44-49% then some of the other fatty acids must be reduced since the total cannot be more than 100. This is important since lauric acid is not the only important fatty acid in natural coconut oil. For example, caprylic acid is a shorter chain fatty acid which is normally present in a concentration of about 7.5%. A doctor friend of mine suggested that one of the reasons that coconut oil is so beneficial for people fighting yeast infections is that the amount normally consumed (2-3 tablespoons per day) would contain a therapeutic dose of caprylic acid which is commonly prescribed as a natural treatment for yeast.

Since a complete fatty acid profile is not provided we don't know how the caprylic acid content has been affected.

Not only is this not an  "extra virgin coconut oil," it is actually  a coconut oil which doesn't have the normal fatty acid make-up of natural coconut oil and from which a portions of other important components have been removed.  

Whatever "centrifuge" process is being used to produce this oil, it is not the same process which is used to produce Coconut Oil Supreme™. Coconut Oil Supreme™ is a natural as coconut oil gets and contains all of its important fractions in the most natural balance available in a virgin coconut oil. .