Nutiva Organic Extra Virgin Coconut Oil

How coconut oil is processed is the key to optimizing its taste, texture, color, and aroma. Within two hours of Nutiva's coconuts being chopped, the oil is cold-pressed at below 113 degrees. Contrast this with 99 percent of the coconut oil used today in cooking and body care. First, the coconut is chopped and left to dry in the sun for days. Then the meat is scooped out and sent thousands of miles to giant oil mills where the oxidizing coco meat is refined, bleached, and/or deodorized. Ironically, this product is often labeled as "certified organic.”

There is no comparison between Nutiva's raw, extra-virgin Organic Coconut Oil, with its light taste, pleasant aroma, and pure white color, and industrialized coconut oil, with its bland taste, faint aroma, and off-white color. Please note that any tiny brown specks found at the bottom of Nutiva's Coconut Oil are from the coconut fiber and are indigenous to extra-virgin coconut oil.

Since the 1960s, coconut oil has been mistakenly described as unhealthy. The media reported on studies finding that tropical coconut oils were laden with artery-clogging fats. What went unreported was the fact that the coconut oil used in the studies was hydrogenated—not the virgin oil used for centuries as a staple food.

Coconut oil is about 50 percent lauric acid, a rare medium-chain fatty acid found in mother's milk that supports healthy metabolism and is now being studied for its anti-fungal, anti-viral, and anti-bacterial health-protecting properties. Overall, coconut oil contains 92% saturated fats, and only 1% Omega-6, the fat Americans get way too much of.

Serving Size: 1 Tablespoon
Servings per container: ~247

Amount Per Serving

% Daily Value*


Calories	120

-- Calories from Fat	120

Total Fat	14 gram	22%

-- Saturated Fat	12.5 gram	63%

-- Polyunsaturated Fat	0.5 gram

-- Monounsaturated Fat	1 gram

-- Trans Fat	0 gram

Cholesterol	0 mg	0%

Sodium	0 mg	0%

Total Carbohydrate	0 mg	0%

Protein	0 gram

	* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs. ** Daily Value not established.

Other Ingredients: 100% organic unrefined extra-virgin coconut oil.

• Certified organic and non-GMO
• Made from fresh coconuts, not dried copra
• Cold-processed under 104 degrees
• Expeller-pressed within two hours of chopping
• Unrefined
• Chemical-free
• Unfermented *
• Unbleached
• Undeodorized
• Unhydrogenated
• Pure white like fresh coconut
• Tastes like fresh coconut
• Has a fresh coconut fragrance
• Product of the Philippines
• Made with our Fresh is Best ™ commitment
* Other brands utilize heat and fermentation, waiting more than 10 hours between chopping the coconut and pressing the oil, adversely affecting flavor.

This versatile coconut oil is ideal as a high-heat cooking oil (up to 350 degrees), a healthy substitute for shortening in baking, a "better than butter" replacement on bread and veggies, and a luscious body oil.

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