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| | From: JamieDH4 (Original Message) | Sent: 3/5/2007 4:52 AM |
Hans-
I was wondering if there were any alternatives to coconut oil for cooking? I make these special banana (no nuts whatsoever) muffins with rapsadura brown sugar that I absolutely love. I have made them with butter and with coconut oil and they are much better with butter. There is a real difference in their texture and taste between the two, and I frankly prefer the taste of the ones with butter by far. What should I do? |
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My guess is that if you diet is otherwise okay, then this would not represent a problem. Of course, you can eat something with it that is rich in antioxidants, such as berries. |
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Well aren't banana's rich in Vitamin C, an antioxidant? I have made them with dark chocolate in them, but I don't really care for chocolate that much. |
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I wouldn't worry too much about it. You can use an organic strawberry, raspberry, or blueberry fruit preserve to spread on top of the bread, if you like that stuff. |
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Hans-
Do you have any experience with Palm Oil or Palm Kernel Oil? Would you suggest one over the other? I know that the Palm Kernel Oil has a much higher percentage of saturated fatty acids than the Palm Oil, but the Palm Oil is actually very high in antioxidants. I also have no idea where I could purchase it from or what brands might be good to purchase. Could you give me some recomendations? Please.
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From what I've seen, these oils are not cheap, and I have never tried them. From what I understand, they are rather tasteless in more refined forms. You will find then in baked goods, for example. Since butter is so inexpensive compared to these oils, you might want to just keep using it. I recently made a corn bread with a banana and fat free milk to moisten the dry mix, along with very small amounts of coconut oil, and it was very good. I ate it with butter, so that I didn't have to bake it with butter, and I like it better than way anyway. |
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Well, I wouldn't call coconut oil "cheap". Its rather expensive actually, but I have just fine tuned my diet enough where my only added fatty acid come mainly from unheated butter. I eat a lot of fat free foods that I make myself and then just add butter once its done cooking.
Do you have any brands of coconut oil that you recommend? Any place to get it?
the stuff that I get is "nutiva" and about $30 (US) for 1/2 gallon, I think. |
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I bought some 16 ounce containers from iherb.com at a very low price, less than $5 I think, and they might have a first time discount - you can do an internet search to see. I use very small amounts, so it's not an issue for me. Instead I eat a lot more shredded coconut, which I get for just over $1 a pound, and then I put it through a burr coffee grinder to make it into a powder, which can be used for all kinds of things. With a little fruit juice and/or mashed banana, you can pat it down with a spoon and make a bottom for a torte type of thing. |
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