HEALTH HAZARDS OF COCONUT OIL A MYTH OR REALITY?
Keywords:
Coconut Oil, World Production, Vegetable Oil
Abstract
Coconut oil which forms about 4.9 per cent of the world production of oils and fats, assumes much importance among the common vegetable oils in the world. But the alleged atherogenicity of coconut oibdue to its highly saturated nature hinders coconut oil from having a top position in the world market as an edible oil. The recent classification of oils based on the chain length of fatty auds, as MCT and LCT, reveals the neutral effect of coconut oil, which is also supprted by epidemiological observations. Here the possibilities of labelling cocbout oil as an energy giving non‑fattening edible oil is discussed, to dispel the prevailing misconceptions.
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CARROLL, K.K., KHOR, A.T. 1,971. Effects of level and type of dietary fat on incidence of mammary,tumours induced in fenyale, Sprague Dawley rats by 7, 12 dimethyl benz (alpha) anthracene, Lipids, 6 415.
FRANTZ, I.D. CAREY, J.B. 1961. Cholesterbl content of human liver after feeding of corn oil and hydrogepierated coconut oil, Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol. Med., 106: 800 1.
HALDEN, V.W., LIEB, H. 1961. Influence of biologically improved coconut oil product on the blood cholesterol levels of human volunteers. Nutr. Dieta, 3: 75 88.
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PRIOR, I.A.M., 1974. Cardiovascular epiderniology in New Zealand and the Pacific. Nz. Med. J., 80: 245 52.
SENIOR, J.R., VAN, ITALLIE, T.B. and GREEN BERGER, J., Eds. Medium chain Triglyeride Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1968.
WLCKRAMANAYAKE, T.W., 1988. The coconut and heart disease. Indian Coconut Journal, XIX (2): 9 12.
Published
1992-12-01
How to Cite
B.CHEMPAKAN. (1992). HEALTH HAZARDS OF COCONUT OIL A MYTH OR REALITY?. CORD, 8(02), 34. https://doi.org/10.37833/cord.v8i02.259
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