Coconut Oil

How we reached this

Roughly 82% saturated fat, largely lauric acid. The American Heart Association's 2017 Presidential Advisory reviewed the trials and found coconut oil raises LDL cholesterol with no offsetting benefit identified, and advised against its use — that position is reported here rather than argued with. Held at 7 despite it because virgin coconut oil is mechanically expressed rather than solvent-extracted and is oxidatively stable at cooking heat, which are the axes the rest of this scale rewards. A reader prioritising cardiovascular risk should weight the AHA position above the score.

Sources · 2

• Sacks FM et al. — Dietary Fats and Cardiovascular Disease: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association, Circulation (2017)https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIR.0000000000000510
• USDA FoodData Central — Oil, coconut, fatty acid profilehttps://fdc.nal.usda.gov

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