Coconut

links: Food Saturated Fat reference: 4-12-2021

Coconut (Oil) #

Stimulates the metabolism and is metabolized very quickly without extensive processing from bile etc.

• ““As far as the evidence goes, it suggests that coconut oil, added regularly to a balanced diet, lowers Serum Cholesterol to normal by promoting its conversion into Pregnenolone. (The coconut family contains steroids that resemble pregnenolone, but these are probably mostly removed when the fresh oil is washed with water to remove the enzymes which would digest the oil.) Coconut-eating cultures in the tropics have consistently lower cholesterol than people in the U.S. Everyone that I know who uses coconut oil regularly happens to have cholesterol levels of about 160, while eating mainly cholesterol rich foods (eggs, milk, cheese, meat, shellfish). Peat

• Fatty acid composition: [Fatty Acids and Derivatives from coconut Oil - Gervajio]

• Submerging in water (or just washing) for a minute makes it easier to open. Jam a metal skewer into the larger eye to drain the water. Hit the equator with the blunt side of the knife. Also be mindful of the stress points demarcating trilateral its symmetry.
  • Freezing it obviously makes it harder but it makes the entir shell come off at once, whereby a vegetable peeler can take off a then brown skin and it comes out looking like a hard boiled egg. How to OPEN A COCONUT & REMOVE COCONUT MEAT easily

Coconut Cream #

• Just coconut meat (from fresh coconuts or otherwise) and water. Once you finish this GregTech intermediate you can craft Vegan ice cream out of it with maple syrup, etc.
  • https://www.thespruceeats.com/homemade-coconut-cream-recipe-1807876
• Virgin coconut oil | cold pressed virgin coconut oil at home | homemade pure coconut oil
  • Deflesh 2 coconuts and shred. Grind in batches and add water as needed,
  • Same thing basically. https://www.thespruceeats.com/homemade-coconut-cream-recipe-1807876
    • Deflesh 3 coconuts and shred. Place them a blender and add (coconut?) water until you have a creamy mixture. Pour it into a nut milk bag (which is basically a thick cheesecloth; you can just use multiple thick cheeseclothes) and strain out as much liquid as you can.
      • Sell the leftover solid as dessicated coconut and feed it to animals or something, I dunno.
      • !Travis Corner has some good lore on what to do with nut milk bags and makes homemade coconut cream, as well as using a vitamix+bag for pulp to juice fruits. And then plans on just getting a slow speed cold press vertical juicer
      • Put it in the fridge for 2-3 hours.
    • Put it in the fridge for 24 hours to separate the cream from the water, whereby they can easily be separated and kept in the fridge until needed.
    • The leftover coconut ‘water’ slurry can be used for curry, soup, etc.
• FRESH Homemade COCONUT CREAM | raw vs canned coconut cream TASTE TEST
  • Can also use a juicer. You put the ‘pulp’ back in at least once.

Ice Cream #

• Not even coconut based—this used cashews/homemade cashew milk for thickening! And then just maple syrup and coffee. I wonder if macadamia nuts would work? https://detoxinista.com/coffee-ice-cream/
• https://minimalistbaker.com/coffee-coconut-ice-cream/
  • Coconut milk, sugar, coffee, vanilla.
    • So how to make homemade coconut milk (coconut cream, really) that doesn’t have weird ingredients like xanthan gum? I guess lecithin is okay. It is part of the erm, ‘holy grail stack’ after all. Plus some phosphatidylcholine.
• https://chocolatecoveredkatie.com/coconut-ice-cream-recipe/
• ‘Nice cream’ is also when you just use frozen bananas. https://chocolatecoveredkatie.com/vegan-coffee-ice-cream/ this would practically make an amazing breakfast if you were fine with something cold. Makes coffee ’edible’ and everything since some people don’t tolerate it great on an empty stomach and whatnot.

Coconut Water #

• Mexico > Thai white water coconut, since the latter is dipped in bleach and stuff.
• Kroger: $3.50/L? Whole Foods: $4.59/L; Whole Foods ‘Fair Trade’: $7.8/L,
• Harmless Harvest $10/L, whether you buy bottles or the big ass box in bulk - at least at whole foods. ($60/192oz or $10/32oz). However the it’s a bit cheaper for the $96/288oz box.
  • There’s a problem: it’s a significant source of Phosphorus for some reason, while other brands, presumably from mature coconuts, are negligible and positive Ca:P ratio.
  • 14g sugar vs 9g from whole foods.
• Symbiosis (formerly known as Exotic Superfoods; this one is truly raw and apparently cream of the crop) $10.5/L in bulk (% shipping).
  • https://cocosymbiosis.com/?ref=2