Natural HealthCoconut Cream Benefits
By Laura Ng
Many people love adding coconut cream to enhance the flavor and thickness of curry, while I add it for one more purpose, its health benefits.
"Are you sure coconut cream benefits your health?" is the shocking question people usually pose when I told them that coconut cream is actually good for them.
True. Coconut cream bears the saturated fatty acid structure. However, the structure is in the form of medium-chain rather than those animal saturated fats which are connected together as long-chain. Long-chain is extremely difficult to break down and so it gets easily stored as fat. Medium-chain breaks down easily and converts to energy (like carbohydrate) almost immediately.
So, where's the health risk associated with coconut cream? Essentially none provided you don't take too much. Too much of a good food can bring excess calories that your body doesn't need, so you know where these unwanted calories will end up in.
How Coconut Cream Benefits Your Health
As just mentioned, the medium-chain fatty acids (MCFAs) in coconut cream benefit you by giving you more energy to cope with your physical activities. But that's not all, the primary acid in it is called lauric acid — exactly the same as that in human breast milk, which helps us ward off intrusive viruses and bacteria.
What's more amazing about the health benefits of coconut cream is that when its lauric acid converts to monolaurin (an anti-viral, antibacterial, and antiprotozoal monoglyceride), it boosts your immune system and protects you against many viruses, including hepatitis C, herpes and even HIV!
On top of that, its anti-carcinogenic and anti-pathogenic properties can help prevent you from getting cancer. Oh, it's also exceptionally powerful for treating constipation! Having problems with getting rid of your body waste? Coconut cream will be your instant cure, more powerful yet natural than chemically-processed laxatives sold over the counter.
You know what, not only coconut cream benefits your health, coconut oil, water and meat do bear the same health-promoting properties, especially coconut oil which contains a high concentration of MCFAs essential to help you fight off many degenerative diseases.
Now you got a variety of coconut foods to add to your palate, you don't have to stick to adding coconut cream to just curry anymore. You can now add 2 - 3 tablespoons of coconut oil onto your cooked brown rice, include coconut oil or water in smoothies, or cut coconut meat into smaller chunks and sprinkle as toppings for your dessert. That's how you can reap maximum health benefits of coconut food, instead of limiting to just coconut cream.
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