Coconut Oil in a Pill?
We have received
many requests about coconut oil pills, or coconut oil softgels. And indeed,
since so many people have requested this, there are some vendors now offering
this on the market.
However, Tropical
Traditions has no intention of offering a coconut oil softgel capsule.
For one thing, the largest softgel one can make is 1000 mg (1 gram). As
most people know, the recommended amount of coconut oil to eat each day
by many researchers is about 3.5 tablespoons. 1 tablespoon is 14 grams.
So to get the equivalent amount of coconut oil that most people are consuming
in capsule form, one would need to take about 49 capsules a day.
The companies peddling these coconut pills are recommending anywhere from
3 to 6 capsules a day, which is only a few drops of coconut oil. So if
you want coconut oil in pill form, you are going to pay 20 or 30 dollars
for a jar of 100 or so pills, and what value are those pills? If you do
the math, you will see that you are being ripped off big time.
Not only that,
if you were to consume large amounts of soft gel capsules, what else are
you consuming besides the oil inside them? These large gelatin capsules
are made from bovine (cows), and we don't see anyone advertising organic
grass-fed derived gelatin capsules. So any toxins currently existing
in our cattle industry (growth hormones, antibiotics, etc.) will also
be in these gelatin capsules. Also, in the encapsulation process it is
standard practice to use mineral oil. Mineral
oil is basically petroleum.
So to answer
all those questions that come in to us on almost a daily basis: no, Tropical
Traditions does NOT offer coconut oil in gel caps, and we have no intention
of doing so. Coconut oil is a traditional FOOD, not a medicine. We are
not going to take advantage of our clients and give them a product that
has no value, and could potentially be even harmful to them.
Tropical Traditions
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