You may have noticed, I love all things coconut! But not all products made from coconut are the same. Below you’ll find my coconut product guide for the coconut newbies out there.
The Coconut Mama’s Coconut Product Guide
Don’t know the difference between coconut oil and coconut butter? This coconut product guide will help you sort through all the products on the market today.
Coconut Oil
A staple at my house! Coconut oil is extracted from the inner meat of a coconut, and has about a million and a half uses. Use it to restore your skin, as part of an oil pulling routine, and as a healthy fat in most recipes. Coconut oil supports a healthy metabolism, so dunk a little in your coffee if you feel like it!
Coconut Butter
Ready for a little sweetness? Coconut butter definitely delivers. It’s super easy to make it yourself, because it’s just shredded coconut processed for a certain amount of time. It’s an incredibly good source of healthy fats. Use it in your sweet recipes, and pass a little along to your baby!
Coconut Water
This is a favorite for a lot of people, including Jane Lynch! Coconut water is the delicious drink made from harvesting very young coconuts. It has very low sugar and helps restore the body from exercise or stress. Drink it plain, or make delicious coconut water kefir for a refreshing summer drink.
Coconut Milk
When a coconut is ground up, a delicious liquid come. That’s coconut milk! It’s filled with healthy fats and is an extremely healthy alternative to cow milk. Use it to make rich, healthy drinks and alternatives to treats typically made with dairy.
Coconut Flour
Coconut flour is a loose flour made by processing the meat of a coconut. For the gluten-free folks out there, this is the flour to cook with. It’s a great addition to any recipe, and contains much more fiber than regular wheat flour. Click here to receive my cookbook full of coconut flour recipes!
Coconut Cream
Coconut can be sweet or savory, and coconut cream definitely falls in the middle. The “froth” of coconut milk, this delicious ingredient is full of healthy fats. Use it as part of your next dip to add body and texture without going overly sweet!
Coconut Aminos
Love soy sauce but need an alternative? Looking to eliminate grain from your diet? Coconut aminos are here to help! They bring all the savory goodness of soy sauce but contain none of the unhealthy grains. They’re also stocked with healthy aminos.
Coconut Nectar
The nectar of a coconut can be very sweet, which makes it a perfect substitute for refined sugar in various types of recipes. It’s a key part of my favorite chocolate spread, personally. It’s also 100% vegan and gluten-free, with healthy doses of magnesium and zinc. More goodness all around!
Coconut Sugar
Coconut nectar, taken to the next level. Coconut sugar has the rich sweetness of coconut nectar, but is dehydrated and crystallized in a way so as to better mimic sugar. This is a much healthier sweetener for those with diabetes, or can only process sweeteners with a low glycemic index. It can also be infused with various flavors.
Shredded Coconut
This sweet addition ads a delicious coconut taste to both sweet and savory dishes. While you have to make sure to buy organic to avoid excess sugar, shredded coconut is loaded with healthy fiber. Sprinkle on ice cream, or mix it into a wholesome curry.
What’s your favorite coconut product? What do you use it for? Tell us in the comments!
Coconut Oil Giveaway
Enter for a chance to win a free bottle of virgin coconut oil!
Plant-based and delicious, coconut oil has become more and more popular in recent years. Studies point to its many beneficial properties which include boosting the immune system, decreasing inflammation, fighting heart disease, and more. I use coconut oil in almost all my recipes and I want you to have the chance to experience this incredible oil for yourself. Follow the directions on the widget below to enter for a chance to win a bottle of Tropical Traditions Virgin Coconut Oil. I'll be drawing a new winner every month so keep entering! No purchase necessary to win.
Love coconut oil and coconut flour for cooking. Would love to try the aminos!
I love coconut oil and use it for lotion. I haven’t bought any lotion (including for my face) in over three years and my skin is no longer dry and looks more youthful. No more dry and flaky winter skin. I recommend it for everyone. It’s also great for an addition to moisturizing hair and face masks!
Love coconut oil! Use it in cooking and also as my deodorant. Works great!
I love the Coconut oil and Coconut flour, of which I use frequently. I have yet to try other coconut products, but am working on stocking up. Just made some coconut flour cheese sticks that turned out really good. Am going to chicken and try and back some bread next. Hope to learn so much more from your resources and very much intend to use them.
Kindest Regards and thank you
Sorry the typos. Meant to say that I am going to fry some chicken up next, along with bake me some bread.
I love everything coconut!
coconut oil, love it for cooking and beauty.
Love your page
Would love to win the Wildly Organic Coconut Collection . Love Coconut products
TY for this awesome giveaway
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All of the coconut!!!
Meat in banana-nut plain yogurt smoothies. a weight loss elixir!!!
Oil for most cooking
Water when I get a few Florida coconuts to crack
Being a Canadian is sometimes not a good thing. I cannot get freebies from coconut mama
Coconut butter is my absolute favorite…so many things to do with it!
I like Coconut shampoo and conditioner.
love cocunut and the benefits it has
I love using coconut oil, whether it be in my tea or baking and cooking with it.
Love the healthy coconut chocolate recipe!
Edited: Mmmmmmm! L❤VE us some coconut! We use coconut flour and flakes for treats like muffins????, coconut aminos for marinating meats????, using it in stir fry dishes and my ????lil one actually likes just to put a little on her rice! We’ve used coconut sugar to make a healthier version of oh so yummy kettled corn???? A friend helped me make a pumpkin pie with coconut cream and it was DELISH! Not sure if coconut butter is the same as coconut spread but we use the spread on bagels and toast ????.
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Mmmmmmm! L❤VE us some coconut! We use coconut flour and flakes for treats like muffins????, coconut aminos for marinating meats????,coming in stir fry dishes and my ????lil one actually likes just to put a little on her rice! We’ve used coconut sugar to make a healthier version of oh so yummy kettled corn????
Wow this is so amazing!!! I use coconut oil the most! With milk a very close 2nd???? Thanks
I love them all; especially in love with coconut cream.
My best coconut products are coconut oil and coconut milk, I use both for my son. He drinks both and I use the coconut oil as body oil for him.
This sounds great! Thanks for the chance!
Coconut products are the best
I absolutely love coconut oil! I use it for skin hydration, for my baby and his skin, cooking, haircare, and baking! It’s great!
would be wonderful to try all these products I am starting my health journey to better health with better products
I love all the coconut products but coconut aminos is wonderful…I like the taste, the lightness and the fact that it replace soya sauce in recipe and taste so much better
I love anything coconut!
I use coconut flour for baking cookies and bread. I use use coconut oil for cooking and baking.
Coco aminos are my fave. I love them on steamed veggies and for making homemade salad dressings and soups.
Love to win this
I love everything coconut,and as I was using some oil on my skin, a piece dropped and my little chihuahua gobbled that piece right up. So now I share a lot of my coconut with her.
Being retired, I would love to try all of these products. Use a lot of coconut now, even give our cats and dog coconut oil, it is amazing what it does for their fur.
I love getting recipes and tips from your website! I’m a huge coconut lover.
Would love to win this awesome contest❣️
Coconut cream is wonderful. Use it to make a beautiful icing for cakes and muffins. Completely decadent.
Pick me!
What an amazing opportunity to continue to use coconut products I am familiar with and be able to try a few new ones. Thank you
I use Wildly Organic products regularly (for years since before they changed their name recently!). They have such high quality and exceptional products, so this is a great raffle–thanks!
I love that I found your website at a time when I needed something to use for my dry facial skin. I now use Coconut oil daily to remove my makeup and to moisturize my skin any time day or night.
I will be 70 in a few days and I am so happy with how Coconut oil has helped my skin.
Thank you so much for the skin advice and for the wonderful recipes you provide.
just starting to use more coconut oil in relation to foods and cooking
Love coconut!
thank you for this chance
I use coconut oil for all my dry skin needs, lips, nose, feet. I have psoriasis and coconut oil helps to keep them under control. My grandson is gluten free and I use coconut flour so that he can have “Goodies”. He especially likes when I make whipped coconut milk and fresh berries for him.
thank you for the chance at this awesome giveaway. i have never used this brand of products, so i would be excited to try them out! happy holidays!
It is a pity it is only for US as I am in the UK and daughter in Canada.
My favorite coconut product is coconut oil. I use it while I’m cooking.
Use coconut oil for most of my cpoling
I LOVE Coconut Mama! I try as many of her recipes as my husband can stand (he loves them all). I look forward to her emails because I know there will be great recipe in there for me. Giving up sugar and grains was the best thing we have ever done. I was shocked when I found, thru Coconut Mama, that I can bake pies, cakes, candy, pancakes, pretty much anything we want PLUS my hair has never been shinier! Ya just gotta love her passion her passion.
I live on social security and $200 is a lot of money for me. I could really use the products as the Keto diet is expensive.
My family and I use the Virgin (unrefined) coconut oil most often compared to the other products. I use it for baking pie crusts, muffins, tortillas and vegan pot pies. I also use it for oil pulling as it has benefited my skin and mouth very much by adding anti inflammatory healing and extra cleanliness.
There was no email saying I had entered. Does that mean I need to renter in case it didn’t take?
If you look at the giveaway widget it’ll show that you’ve entered the giveaway.
What and where is this?
Always looking for a new way to enjoy coconuts!
Love anything coconut!
WOW! What a great giveaway. I use many coconut products in body care and baking. Winning this collection of products would be like a second Christmas! Thanks for the opportunity.
I love all things coconut and find any way possible to use it.
Love to cook and bake with it and I add it to my protein shakes. I use it in all forms. Oil, shredded, coconut sugar, fresh out of the shell. Its all GOOD.????
Merry Christmas
tHIS IS SOMETHING i WOULD REALLY LOVE TO BE USING FULL TIME BUT HAVEN’T BEEN ABLE TO AFFORD TO BUY THEM.
I love all things coconut!
Coconut is one of my favorites!
I like & use all of the coconut products.
It is necessary for me to eat gluten free, I find the
coconut products great.
Is it possible to produce a coconut that is not organic?
I love cocanut oil and usr it in my hair, on my skin and I cook with it. It’s healthy and resourceful.
Wow! That is an ULTIMATE Grand Prize! I love coconuts! Always have! ❤️????
love Coconut oil
I tried to sign up to try to win your giveaway but it keeps taking me to buy the book!
Thanks for the chance. I’m allergic to nuts doing a low carb woe. Coconut products are a must.
I use a ton of coconut products. This giveaway sounds amazing!!!
What an awesome collection of coconut products! I would LOVE to win this!
I cook with coconut oil all the time. Make frozen lemon clouds all the time.I do oil pulling and soak my dry cracked hands in it.
Coconut oil, I use it for cooking, I replace oil in recipes with coconut oil. I slathering on after a shower. Everything turns out better with coconut.
Love!! Amazing giveaway!
I would love to win this, as coconut oil and most other coconut products are favorites in our home and this brand sounds quite amazing. I scrolled around a bit and was impressed by the soaked cashews and other nuts, the fermented cacao powder, and other products. I’m familiar with all the products listed and enjoy them so much after discovering the benefits of coconut several yrs. ago. Also, the Coconut Aminos adds that special flavoring to so many foods.
Thank you for offering this opportunity………
I use coconut flour
Can’t get enough coconut products. Virgin Coconut Oil is the only oil I have purchased in the last 4 years.
I never knew the goodness and benefits of COCONUT and its products until I subscribed to your newsletter and started following your advice. It is a great ideas and I heartily recommend more people do the same. It is more than worth it. Keep up your good work
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Use organic coconut oil for hair and face already!! Can’t wait to find other products for all purposes!!
Would love to try the coconut butter. Otherwise, my most widely used coconut product is coconut oil. Have also used coconut aminos which are great!
Coconut oil is truly amazing
I love coconut manna added to wild rice with onions and mushrooms, delicious!
Hopeful winner!
Happy to find you through Sugar Free Mom. Eager to try your recipes and have been searching for natural diy creams for face and body. Thanks!
I recently acquired a tub of Maranatha Coconut Butter. I have always used coconut oil. I thought it would be the same. I found it not to be the same. It was separated and needed to be mixed and when I used it on the skin for my self and my dog, who was getting over a surgery with stitches and staples. The coconut oil worked so well and was easily absorbed into her skin but the coconut butter was weird and stood on her skin with a white mess. Can you tell me the difference? I have givin up on the coconut butter. I did not like it at all! It did not taste good either! YUCK! What is your take on this stuff? As for me, I will stick with coconut oil all the way!
I was wondering if fractionated coconut oil is also good to use & can it be used in similar ways as coconut oil?
My absolute favorite coconut oil is made by Dr. Bronner. I have used almost all of his products thru the years. I tired Jarrow and a few others listed on your page, but Dr. Bronner has a level of quality unmatched by any others.
Since reading your blog I have changed up the foods we use at home. We enjoy coconut nectar, coconut flour, and recently switched to coconut water for our smoothies! I’ve seen a drastic change in my children’s well being. They are sensitive and allergic to so many things I’ve been pulling my hair out…until your blog and going gluten free!
Wonderful information. Just getting into coconut products So happy to learn more about it Thank You
I love to fry chicken in coconut oil. Also like to pop popcorn in it! So many good uses of coconut oil!
Hi Tiffany,
I use coconut flour for biscuits in place of bread, and have made salmon patties with it also. Do you have a favorite brand of coconut water and milk? Thanks for the good info.
What do U recommend as the best coconut water and the best coconut water powder
I’d appreciate UR opinion
Thank U