Coconut oil for cooking: Is it good or bad for you?
The fact is, there’s limited evidence to suggest coconut oil does any of these things. All that has been studied in depth is the impact of coconut oil on blood-cholesterol levels – and even those findings aren’t clear-cut. Coconut oil, a tropical oil made from the dried fruit of the coconut palm tree, contains 86 per cent saturated fat. Because diets high in saturated fat raise LDL (bad) blood cholesterol, the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada and the American […]