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Coconut Oil–Scientific Facts


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1 Division of Physiology, Biochemistry and Post Harvest Technology, ICARCentral Plantation Crops Research Institute, Kasaragod 671 124, India
2 Division of Biochemistry, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110 012, India
 

Coconut oil and its health benefits have been challenged once again by an US-based professor who has labelled it as ‘a pure poison’. The pertinent question we ask is whether her observations are based on scientific facts. We would like to dispel any negative connotation and arrest the spread of mis-information about the oil of Kalpavriksha. Here we discuss and present scientific facts that support the health benefits of coconut oil.
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Authors

S. V. Ramesh
Division of Physiology, Biochemistry and Post Harvest Technology, ICARCentral Plantation Crops Research Institute, Kasaragod 671 124, India
Veda Krishnan
Division of Biochemistry, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110 012, India
Shelly Praveen
Division of Biochemistry, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110 012, India
K. B. Hebbar
Division of Physiology, Biochemistry and Post Harvest Technology, ICARCentral Plantation Crops Research Institute, Kasaragod 671 124, India

Abstract


Coconut oil and its health benefits have been challenged once again by an US-based professor who has labelled it as ‘a pure poison’. The pertinent question we ask is whether her observations are based on scientific facts. We would like to dispel any negative connotation and arrest the spread of mis-information about the oil of Kalpavriksha. Here we discuss and present scientific facts that support the health benefits of coconut oil.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv117%2Fi4%2F564-565