Pete, Thai resturaunts use coconut oil in a lot of their cooking. Local sources are Aisian grocery stores,Aisian sections of large supermarkets, and health food stores.
I get mine mail order from http://www.wildernessfamilynaturals.com/ as I want raw, unheated for the enzyme value, but your milage may vary. Chuck "Houston, we're venting some sort of gas out into space... no wait, it's just me. On 6/2/2005 9:24:44 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Is coconut oil suitable for cooking as olive oil? If so, where does one > purchase it locally? Pete > > >>Next time you are doing a bit of searching on the net, why not also > enter in > "coconut" along with > your cholesterol and oil search words. Virgin coconut oil, fresh from > the > nut, not the stuff made from copra and bleached and refined and > deodorised > and hydrogenated etc. In Australia, look at Kokonut > in Canberra www.kokonutpacific.com.au. And elsewhere people are highly > praising some of the oils > available out there. It seems to be "fair trade" oriented too, so the > growers are not being exploited and disrespected. > Rowena > > > And the original natives of Alaska ate almost nothing but meat and fat > > and never had heart disease before being introduced to processed > > foods. > >> Cholesterol is a red herring. The real culprit is industrial > >> vegetable oils and trans-fats. At the beginning of the 1900s, > >> people ate animal fats on a regular basis. > > http://www.coconutoil-online.com/ > They have a newsletter Interesting information on the different grades of > coconut oil > Also an online purchase source for USA > Also a diet book "Eat Fat Lose Fat" > Boo -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
