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Coconut Oil Capsules are one of the latest forms of consumption of coconut oil.
The unimaginably tight job schedules and metropolitan life styles hardly give us any time to breath, not to speak of taking lavish meals and time consuming health care products etc. etc. So, everything started coming in easily manageable, portable and consumable forms e.g. fast foods, i-pods, mobile phones etc. Coconut Oil is no exception either. Since long, efforts were going on to make coconut oil available in easily consumable forms, since you can neither carry a cake or bottle of coconut oil with you to your office nor will you have the time to gulp down two tablespoons full of coconut oil, forget about massaging your body with it or getting your dish cooked in it. So, the coconut oil capsules came as good news for those ultra-busy executives and businessmen, who did not want to compromise with the health. They were portable, easily consumable and had lot of benefits of coconut oil, if not all. Let us know more about them.
What are these capsules? These are like any other medicinal capsules. They have concentrated form of coconut oil extract filled in starch capsules. Coconut Oil Capsules may or may not contain other herbal extracts and/or medicines/vitamin supplements.
Merits: Coconut Oil Capsules have following advantages;
- Easily portable.
- Easily consumable.
- Dosages can be easily managed, since each has a fixed quantity & nutrient value.
Uses: Coconut Oil Capsules are good for
- Weight loss
- Treating Candida
- Reducing bad cholesterol
- Increasing good cholesterol
- Treating hair loss
- Improving metabolism
- Keeping skin good and healthy
- Treating problems in digestion
- Fighting microbial infections
Cost: In places where coconuts are scarcely available, these coconut oil capsules can be a good and cheap alternative to actually buying and eating a costly coconut. But opting for them is certainly not a wise decision in certain coastal areas and islands in Asia and Indian subcontinent, where fresh coconuts and pure coconut oil are available in plenty. In that case, they will cost you more.
The Other Aspect: As said earlier, these capsules are good for people living only in those places where fresh coconut or coconut oil is scarcely available and very costly. But I doubt whether these capsules can really match the goodness of fresh coconut oil or a fresh coconut. The reasons are simple;
- They are highly processed; hence they lack that natural and pure thing.
- The taste and flavour are robbed. You may not like the taste and smell of the capsule’s outer shell (like most of us, since our childhood).
- They will lack many volatile nutrients which actual coconut oil contains, due to high degree of processing.
- You cannot massage with this capsules, unlike with coconut oil.
Do you agree? Imagine that you are a very-very busy man with no time even to eat your favourite food, let’s say, the “Ice Cream”. Then you were given a capsule and told to gulp it down with some water. You did it. And then you were told that it was capsulated form of ice cream (or any other delicacy you can imagine). How would you feel then? Or, rather I should ask, will it be really of any good? The answers are mixed. First of all, you will severely miss the taste, the flavour and the sheer pleasure of eating your favourite dish, bite after bite. Then, the extensive processing involved in converting the original stuff into capsulated form will rob it of many micronutrients. So, it is like something, better than nothing.
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