Eating coconut? (As opposed to just CO)

[Marcomando]

Well the above says it all really!

Eating fresh raw coconut is much more pleasant than taking the oil. Has anyone tried this and found it beneficial?

Perhaps you'd simply need to eat a huge amount to get the same benefit as the concentrated oil...

Marc

[grower]

I enjoy it most as coconut butter, just pureed whole coconut. As a spread, and big dollops of it in my smoothies. No idea of the benefits or not but it tastes great!

[Dottie2 in reply to grower]

I love coconut, but so hard to get to...

Any suggestions??

[grower in reply to Dottie2]

I just get the coconut butter in a jar , current brand is Artisana organic. Raw coconut butter, whole coconut puree. In NZ I had to hunt to find it but in US you can get it in Wholefoods or sometimes trader Joes

[Dottie2 in reply to grower]

Thanks... I'll try to find that

[stevie3]

Since I started researching PD, I now take so many supplements, drink so many fresh smoothies, (with coconut oil), rub camphor oil into my poor stiff hand every night (very effective, thanks to whoever told me that one), make fresh vegetable soup most nights and exercise daily. So I'm sitting this one out! I CANNOT find the time to chomp through a coconut!

[Dottie2 in reply to stevie3]

Hahahah.... I can really relate to all the pill bottles sitting on my counter top. I buy all this stuff that sounds good, then end up so confused I can't seem to focus on what should be my daily routine. lol

[Dottie2]

That's what I was wondering. How much would be equal to a tbsp of oil?