Refined coconut oil is light yellow, and the smell of coconut. Pressed virgin coconut oil from copra, with white, fragrant with coconut.
1 What is virgin coconut oil?
What is the difference between virgin coconut oil with other coconut oils? Basically, there are two types of coconut oil: virgin coconut oil and coconut oil, refined bleached and deodorized. Difference is due to processing. From pure meaning not derived from natural and less processed prepared as possible. Virgin coconut oil is derived from fresh coconuts are harvested.
Generally, little or no heat is used in thermal processing and use absolutely no chemicals. Natural oils as closely as possible to create, and to ensure the nutrients intact. Thus coconut oil has helped maintain calm smell and taste of coconut. Because oil is extracted from white copra, coconut oil should be colorless pure good will. This is considered the best quality of coconut oil.
What is 2 refined coconut oil?
As its name suggests, undergo a process of processing, color removal, deodorizing. Unlike pure oil, refined oil made from dried copra, copra quality varies widely. Copra is dried by the sun, or drying. While refined oil is antiseptic and contaminants removed. Sometimes the right amount of chemicals used to refine the maximum amount of oil and to disinfect. Everything can be reduced, including color, smell and taste. The result is a colorless oil, tasteless and odorless.
Refined coconut oil is divided into several categories depending on the level of purity. Refined oils, color removal, deodorizing will absolutely totally colorless, tasteless and odorless. Type less pale yellow and smells lightly. Type of poor quality more yellow than the dark and smelly. This will not smell like coconut smell in nature, or the smell of virgin coconut oil. It will be moldy smell or taste chemicals. Its yellow color is due to the sedimentation of pollutants have not been emptied, or by thermal effects during processing. This is the kind of low-quality coconut oil, used as soap or topical substances. Sometimes it is also sold as cooking oil. Eating at non-toxic, but it does not taste like other oils.
General characteristics.
Both pure coconut oil and refined coconut oil which contain MCFA (medium chain fatty acids) are useful, which makes coconut oil becomes unique and useful. You can find similar benefits from pure coconut oil and refined coconut oil. But anyway virgin coconut oil is better, because it undergoes processing shorter, should also retain most phytonutrient more; This is of particular nutrients coconut, found in fresh coconut processing. It includes antioxidant substances, substances which are phytosterol heart protective, anti-cancer, and has healing properties as well. This phyto nutrients lost during processing by the method of refining.
Virgin coconut oil is considered nutritious foods scrumptious. A pure coconut oil have good qualities have helped ease the smell, and can scoop food from a spoon easily. It can be used in cooking or as food, but not too strong. If it's smelly, it is because processing is not good or bad quality oil. High quality oil will not have color, and taste bland.
In addition to smell and taste, there is another way to test the oil of inferior quality or rancid oil, as in you can feel in the throat. If poor-quality oil, you will feel a little heat or itching in the throat, choking her neck as if. This feeling is easily recognized when we do not eat oil, but not with food and eating. Good oil will not leave this feeling.
One feature of all types of coconut oil, regardless of whether it is virgin coconut oil or not, as it has a high melting point. Coconut oil melts at 76 degrees F (24 degrees C using). Above this temperature, it is a colorless liquid. Below this temperature, it will be freezing and carrying white as white candles. Many people do not know it, you buy it is a colorless liquid, when brought home a few days after it thickens naturally but white. Initially they will be surprised, thought oil damaged, or there's something wrong. But not so. It's just a characteristic of coconut oil. Though it is liquid, or soft or hard, and were used at all. All oils have different melting point. For example, if you remove the butter in the fridge, it hardens, but dropped out when it's hot, it will melt into a pedestal. Similarly, coconut oil will solidify in the refrigerator, but at normal room temperature (25 ° C) it remains in a liquid state.
Virgin coconut oil is often sold in bottles, such as the edible oils. Because oil will coagulate at low temperatures so the bottles often have a wide mouth for easy access. When it freezes you can easily scoop out with a spoon or knife.
In addition to using coconut oil for cooking, people still use coconut oil as a supplement in the diet. Normally people use a spoon to eat. A pure coconut oils taste good, and most do not eat this way having a problem at all. If you can not stand the smell, probably due to poor oil quality, and you should switch to another brand.
