Coconut oil is a wonderful alternative to other fats (butter, margarine, other cooking oils) in your cooking and eating. Whether you’re here because you like the potential health benefits, you love the taste of coconut, you want some variety, or any other reason, here are 12 simple ways to eat more coconut oil daily!
One of the things I love most about coconut oil is that it tastes amazing and is pretty easy to add into your diet. Once you start adding it to your diet you’ll find it’s not hard at all to get 2-3 tablespoons into your diet. Especially once you realize you can make coconut oil at home…
How To Eat More Coconut Oil
1. Cook With Coconut Oil
Coconut oil is good for baking and lower-heat cooking. Its smoke point of 350 degrees precludes it from recipes that require more heat, but using refined coconut oil gets you in the 400 to 450-degree range. (Higher smoke points exist with other cooking oils as well).
Outside of the lower smoke point, virgin coconut oil is a better choice because it’s less refined and pure. If you’re not a fan of your food tasting like coconut, you can use expeller pressed coconut oil. You’ll want to make sure that the expeller pressed coconut oil is processed without solvents or chemicals. Read more about how to cook with coconut oil.
2. Take It By The Spoonful
If you don’t mind the taste or feel of coconut oil in your mouth taking coconut oil by the spoonful is one of the easiest ways eat more on a daily basis. If you’re trying to eat more coconut oil to help with weight loss, it’s best to take it 20 minutes before a meal to help reduce appetite, feel full and satisfied with smaller portions.
3. Add To Your Smoothies
I love to make smoothies for my family. It’s one of the easiest ways to add nutrient dense foods to their diet! You can easily add a tablespoon of coconut oil to your smoothie. It’s best to add melted coconut oil to your smoothie if you don’t want it to clump up (we honestly don’t mind the small clumps of coconut oil in our smoothies).
4. Add Coconut Oil To Your Coffee or Tea
Eat more coconut oil by adding it to your coffee or tea. Just add a teaspoon or two to your hot beverage and stir until the coconut oil is melted. You can also blend coconut oil into your coffee for a frothy treat! (Hello, bulletproof coffee!)
5. Make Coconut Oil Chocolate
A family favorite treat is my homemade coconut oil chocolate bars. These easy to make chocolates are made with metabolism boosting coconut oil and are delicious. Keep a batch of them in your freezer for when you have a chocolate craving.
6. Bake with Coconut Oil
Whether your making muffins, pancakes or bread you can switch out butter or oil for coconut oil in most recipes. Just remember that coconut oil will solidify if you add cold ingredients to your batter, so make sure all ingredients are room temperature before you start baking.
7. Add To Your Oatmeal
If oatmeal (or coconut oatmeal) is your breakfast of choice simple add a teaspoon or two to it while it’s warm.
8. Mix it into your yogurt
Like oatmeal, coconut oil can easily be added to yogurt too. The best way to do this is to melt it first, then slowly add it to your yogurt. Make sure to mix it well before you dig in!
9. Add to your nut butter
If you eat natural peanut butter or almond butter you may notice that the oil separates to the top of the jar. You can discard the peanut oil and mix coconut oil into your nut butter. Make sure to melt the coconut oil first before adding it to your peanut butter.
10. Fry it up in coconut oil!
We don’t eat fried food a lot around here but when my husband makes a request, I use coconut oil to make homemade fried chicken fingers, coconut shrimp or coconut oil french fries.
11. Coconut Oil Softgels
For those who struggle taking coconut oil or adding it to your diet, coconut oil capsules are available at your local health food store.
12. Eat Coconut and Coconut Products
Love raw coconut meat? Add raw or dried coconut meat to your diet your salads, smoothies and fruit. Many coconut products like coconut milk, coconut butter and shredded coconut oil contain good sources of health promoting medium chain fatty acids. Using coconut products in your diet is a wonderful way to eat more coconut oil on a daily basis.
You can make a lot of this stuff on your own. Here are my recipes for: shredded coconut, coconut butter, coconut milk, and coconut oil.
If you don’t have the time and inclination to make it yourself, no problem! Happens to me, too! Here are some of my favorites to buy at the store: my five favorite coconut oils, my five favorite coconut creams, my five favorite coconut butters, and my five favorite coconut milks.
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I’m going to try coconut oil in my coffee / and toast
look into the diet called keto, coconut oil is great on it, this diet has literally changed my life(not just for weight loss). if you want to learn more look up Dr. Berg(youtube), he is great to get you started
Keto diet helped me quit smoking weed and cigarettes by reducing inflation in my body and providing a theoretic feeling in the mind. .
I was recommended to use organic virgin coconut oil on my dad. he has dementia. I am so excited to start using it on him. I will let you know his updates.
look into the diet called keto, it’s really supposed to help dementia
How well did this work for you dads demtia?!
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comment but I can share our experience with coconut oil and dementia. My husband has early o set Alzheimer’s and we started the coconut oil right away. What we discovered was that the oil helps my husband cope with the confusion of his day. When he doesn’t take it he is overwhelmed and easily distraught over a stressful moment. With it, he is able to stabilize his emotions and his reactions to stress are more normalized. I can always tell when he didn’t get his dose.
What form are you giving it to him? Drinking it, capsules?? How much is he taking?
Good afternoon, Although I have been receiving recipes from the Coconut Mama, for quite some time, I also had been doing research on how it helps with the body, please as I have read your post and we are now in 2020, hour post was put up in March 2017, did you notice any changes with your father, and if so how much was he taking daily? My Mom is going for a brain scan as she is suffering now from Major memory loss, literally within minutes she cannot remember what has been said…I have encouraged her to start eating 2/4 tablespoons a day of coconut oil…We do not know if it dementia or Alzheimer’s as well as the stress of having a step father with Aspergers and him not wanting to do anything or go anywhere except to pick up meds from the Drs, whilst my Mom is big on her NOT taking any medications..
Thank you and would be grateful for any info…My Mom has 80 years in March. Thank you.
Thanks. I bought a jar of organic virgin coconut oil from Trader Joesbto use on my skin but other people told me it was good for weight loss. But I didn’t know how to consume it. Thanks again.
If a person has a small allergy to coconut, how are they to add coconut oil to their diet?
Great drink, Soooo smooth.
Just put a teaspoon in my coffee and its great!!!
I want to eat it how many times a day
I live on a Thai island whose main industry is Coconut farming. A property close to me use a very modern stainless steel machine for extracting the oil, so it is fresh and cheap. However i am not really happy with the flavour, is there any way that i can add a flavour.
I was wondering if you knew how coconut oil would work on healing the stomach and digestive system. I believe you are not a physician, but you seem to have quite a bit of knowledge in this area.
Vitacost has a good quality coconut oil, just as good and tasty as Nutiva, less costly too.
Hi~
What is fractionated coconut oil?
Do you know of any stores in UK. You know you go wirral. Lol. Should get in touch with shops all around glob. Thank you
I’ve just bought a jar of coconut oil from asda, it’s also available from waitrose for £5.99 for 283g.
Try Iceland I bought a jar today 100% pure for £4.50
Want a excellent decadent treat? Coconut oil (solid) spread on caramel rice cakes from Aldi’s. O.M.G! addictive..
I’m curious to know how much is too much of a good thing? I don’t eat as much coconut oil as here lately I’ve been totally addicted to dried coconut flakes from the local health food store. I make my own trail mix with raw nuts and seeds and flakes. I’m eating at least a cup a day of just coconut flakes, sometimes more. I’ve got Hashimoto’s and I’m wondering if the craving is my body needing something in the coconut, or some virus wanting the sugar to feed on! These are dried, unsweetened, unsulphured flakes. Thoughts?
I don’t use butter or marg on my bread or hamburger buns, I spread Coconut Oil on the bread etc.. Try it and see how nice you sandwiches taste, without the cloying of butter.. Good substitute for Vegans..
Costco use to carry Nutiva (best price) and now they have their Kirkland brand which is organic, cold presed, unrefined and chemical -free but does not taste the same. We paid $22 for 84.6 oz. approx. the same as Nutiva was. We don’t like the taste. Will use it up then look for a sale on Nutiva.
Hi Coconut Mama,
Just found your blog and wondering if you know what the difference is between regular coconut oil and types like the brand called Better Body Naturally refined coconut oil? Im new to buying it and ask this because from what I read this type is different, for one because it has no taste or flavor.
The refined uses heat treatment, which alters the benefit of cold pressed organic has.
Is the regular coconut oil that is used for body wash and stuff also what you digest for weight loss?
BTW, I love your site!
You’ll have to read the bottle to see. Most of the coconut oil sold for soaps and beauty care is highly processed and isn’t edible.
Hello.
Your articles are great and I enjoy them. I use coconut oil in many ways. Where I live (in Eastern Cape South Africa) I can not get coconut flour. Someone told me to just get the dessicated coconut and put it in a blender to make the flour. Is this correct?
I would love to hear?
Kind regards, Ine van Ketel Eilander.
Hi
Im here because I want to introduce Coconut oil to my Mums diet, who also suffers with dementia. I read with the neutralised flavour coconut you need to check for solvents or chemicals. I can’t find anything on the jar, how do I find out?
I also highly recommend „bullet proof coffee“. 🙂
I’ve been using coconut milk in my smoothies. Is this any different than using the oil? Thx
I was wondering how much coconut oil should i add to my daily diet?
2-3 tablespoons a day is recommended.
Where the recommendations come from? What studies?
I don’t love the taste of coconut oil. Will I get the same benefits from using the refined coconut oil?
Virgin coconut oil is healthier, but if you don’t like it you’ll still greatly benefit from using refined as long as it’s naturally refined without solvents and chemicals.
go to walmart, they have an unflavored coconut oil that I love. it has no taste of coconut.
If you read up on it, the refined loses all the benefits of cold pressed organic. Because of the heat used. I took a spoonful of the refined, to me it tasted like lard. I really don’t notice the taste of the coconut, and coconut is one of the foods I dislike.
Thanks for all this info! I don’t fry foods very often but when I do I use coconut oil. Also use it in my body creams. Now after reading this will start adding it to my smoothies and other foods. Thanks again.
You’re welcome, Mickie! Thanks for reading. 🙂