Characteristics of Our Virgin Coconut Oil
This Tropical Traditions Virgin Coconut oil is a truly unrefined coconut oil.
This coconut oil is made on Mt. Banahaw from organic coconuts.
Coconuts are used fresh (within 24 hours of harvest) from small family farms on Mt. Banahaw in
Quezon Province, the coconut capital of the Philippines.
The volcanic soil of Mt. Banahaw makes these organic coconuts some of the most nutritionally
rich coconuts in the world! Testing done in independent laboratories reveals a 50% - 57% content
of lauric acid.
The fresh coconut meat is shredded (wet milled), and then cold-pressed to make coconut milk.
The milk is then fermented for 24-36 hours, and the oil is then separated and filtered from the curds.
No chemical or high-heat treatment is used, and this oil contains no trans fatty acids.
We do NOT mass produce this oil. It is made by families who are coconut farmers using
old-fashioned traditional methods that have been used here for hundreds of years.
Our coconut trees and family producers are certified organic according to strict USDA standards.
This high-grade virgin coconut oil has a long shelf life due to coconut oil's natural anti-oxidant
properties.
"The Tropical Traditions Virgin Coconut Oil I highly recommend."

Uses
All parts of the coconut palm are useful, and the trees have a comparatively high yield (up to 75 "nuts"
per year); it therefore has significant economic value.
The name for the coconut palm in Sanskrit is kalpa vriksha,
which translates as "the tree which provides all the necessities of life".
In Malay, the coconut is known as pokok seribu guna, "the tree of a thousand uses".