Guest guest Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 This is also the direction I took when I started with coconut oil and I did not like Louann in any way I used it. After about a year of it sitting on my counter, I decided to go on google and find reviews for Louann brand, and in a nutshell, they were not good. So I then went looking again and chose a more expensive brand. I took one tablespoon of this oil and within minutes had great evidence of its efficacy. My advice to you is don't try to save money on something like this. This is not just oil. If you buy a good brand, it is health insurance. It balances so many things in your body that the kind you buy should not be scrimped on. Louann never did this. I never saw that it was helping me. Have you thought about going onto Amazon? I get jars of Nutiva on Amazon's auto-ship program and get it cheaper. Maybe that would help you. ________________________________ From: W <susancnw@...> Having an income that varies weekly thanks to our lovely economy, my purchase of coconut oil is erratic. Trying to stock up on it as I renew my stock of other groceries. Anyway, I do prefer virgin coconut oil for consumption, but what about Luann? I can get it at Walmart, price is right. I've used their products for years, being a true blue Texan, and have found the quality to be good. I seem to recall that it is expeller produced, and couldn't find anything about chemicals used, but I haven't called them yet. Would this be okay to use on my hair and skin? Maybe for oil pulling? Sometimes it will literally be between this brand and nothing so I'd like input from this group (minus conspiracies please!) Thanks, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 Luann is all I can get where I live as well. I would be interested in any information you collect on this product. I am using it for food prep as I figured it was better than other oils. THANKS in advance, Suej -- Luann Coconut Oil Having an income that varies weekly thanks to our lovely economy, my purchase of coconut oil is erratic. Trying to stock up on it as I renew my stock of other groceries. Anyway, I do prefer virgin coconut oil for consumption, but what about Luann? I can get it at Walmart, price is right. I've used their products for years, being a true blue Texan, and have found the quality to be good. I seem to recall that it is expeller produced, and couldn't find anything about chemicals used, but I haven't called them yet. Would this be okay to use on my hair and skin? Maybe for oil pulling? Sometimes it will literally be between this brand and nothing so I'd like input from this group (minus conspiracies please!) Thanks, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 > Anyway, I do prefer virgin coconut oil for consumption, but what about Luann? I can get it at Walmart, price is right. --- Amazon and VitaCost both have really good prices on organic virgin coconut oil. I've been getting everything from amazon lately because I'm on swagbucks, and I have a continual influx of free amazon gift cards from searching the web, taking surveys, etc. Here's a link, if you want to join: http://www.swagbucks.com/refer/leahnuskin I've gotten about $200 in free amazon gift cards since I started about a year ago. Just use it for searches instead of google. --Leah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 8, 2011 Report Share Posted July 8, 2011 I use Luann to cook, but not to eat, I go ahead and buy a better tasting brand. ________________________________ From: " flutterby5410@... " <flutterby5410@...> Coconut Oil Sent: Fri, July 8, 2011 12:13:27 PM Subject: Re: Luann Coconut Oil Luann is all I can get where I live as well. I would be interested in any information you collect on this product. I am using it for food prep as I figured it was better than other oils. THANKS in advance, Suej Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 9, 2011 Report Share Posted July 9, 2011 I currently have Nutiva, Tree of Life and Jarrow coconut oils, but this evening I'm going to try frying some freshly caught bass, dredged in coconut flour, and it's going to be Walmart Louanna brand all the way. Who has $17 for a frying pan full of oil? Sidenote: another good way to get Amazon money is by simply dropping your spare change into a jar when you think about it. Coinstar machines ordinarily deduct a hefty 8%, but the machine will put 100% of your money onto an Amazon gift card. My pricey organic virgin coconut oil collection was therefore relatively painless--smile. Best, Candace Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 12, 2011 Report Share Posted July 12, 2011 >but this evening I'm going to try frying some freshly caught bass, dredged in coconut flour, and it's going to be Wal-Mart Louana brand all the way. Who has $17 for a frying pan full of oil?< I live on the Cape Fear Coast and regularly fry flounder. Although I grew up inland, I never got a taste for bass but crappie sure is good. I've tried frying my flounder in high quality VCO and Louana CO and don't care for it no matter what style of breading I've used, although I never thought about using coconut flour for that. But- I think I still have some CO flour so I might try that. Anyway, while I love to fry grass fed beefsteak in VCO, fish doesn't go with VCO for me. I only use peanut oil for fish frying and usually that's Louana. I can re-use my oil until it's gone, I never throw any of it out, and here's how... I have totally given up on wheat and corn flour for coating fish because both of them burn and ruin oil even if you don't overheat it. SPELT flour is my answer! It is naturally sweet. I use absolutely nothing else to bread my fish, not even buttermilk. I do nothing but coat the fish with spelt flour. Spelt won't burn, provided you don't actually burn (smoke) the oil. When it cools enough, I strain my oil through white cotton cloth, through a screen strainer, into a bowl, then pour that into a wide mouth pint mason jar and that goes into the fridge. I use wide mouth pint jars because the congealed oil will easily melt and come right back out of the jar. I do all of that for pan-frying fish for the wife and I. When the whole family is here, I break out the big deep frying rig. That oil still gets saved but in a plastic pitcher. Then if I need it later I just scoop some out of that pitcher. For years and years I could never get over 3 uses of oil because of the wheat/corn based breading I was using. All those years I thought it was the oil breaking down but when I tried spelt I found that my former problems were caused by the corruption of the oil by wheat & corn. It used to really gald me to throw out all that expensive oil but not no more I don't! Now I've learned to use Rice Bran Oil for frying veggies, either as stir fry or deep-pan frying, and we use spelt to bread any veggies to which that may apply, then we can save that oil to. Then I use that saved RBO to fry my morning eggs-over-easy on a cast iron skillet. RBO literally cleans a CI skillet. Best oil ever on CI. DaddyBob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 12, 2011 Report Share Posted July 12, 2011 LouAnn coconut oil is processed using hexane. It is an RBD oil. They say they steam the oil to remove hexane but chances are there are residues left there. > > I currently have Nutiva, Tree of Life and Jarrow coconut oils, but this evening I'm going to try frying some freshly caught bass, dredged in coconut flour, and it's going to be Walmart Louanna brand all the way. Who has $17 for a frying pan full of oil? > > Sidenote: another good way to get Amazon money is by simply dropping your spare change into a jar when you think about it. Coinstar machines ordinarily deduct a hefty 8%, but the machine will put 100% of your money onto an Amazon gift card. My pricey organic virgin coconut oil collection was therefore relatively painless--smile. > > Best, > Candace > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 13, 2011 Report Share Posted July 13, 2011 Daddy Bob, Thanks for the information on spelt flour. I will definitely try that on our crappie in the future. Kelli Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 13, 2011 Report Share Posted July 13, 2011 , RBD (refined, bleached and deodorized) coconut oil form ( the only multipurpose cooking/frying oil in the Philippines is generally extracted from coconut copra which usually contain many unwanted biological and chemical materials as a result of improper post havest handling and copra storage. Thus processing the copra to coconut oil which is very safe and price-affordable  as an edible oil/cooking/frying oil purposes/applications.  I understand the only way (technology for decades)  is to have it (copra) undergo or be subjected to to the mentioned processes (RBD), hence the form of coconut oil we use for general purposes in the Philippines.   I believe the chemical hexane effectively used in extracting remaining coconut oil from the copra  after the first extraction system ( mechanical pressing) had been removed fully using effective and safe industrial techniques ( developed by competent oil chemists/chemical engineers and plant oil scientist in the past long years).  As you take your holidays periodically in the Philippines, aside from coconut many other edible oils (palm oil, canola, corn and others) are in the market). These refined edible oils and fats are probably also RBD oils ! I'm now a senior citizen and I'm not aware of single death here in the country due to taking of RBD coconut oil ! Are you ?  Of course, if people would like to use VIrgin coconut oil (VCO) for cooking/frying purposes, it is their choice, but definitely, the world of natural.organic foods is not cheap. And many local and global groups had been advocating for years  that the only safe foods for healthy and longer life are only  for natural or organic foods. But if natural and organic foods are without additional costs (chemical additions or fortifications), as well as no processing done, why are these expensive foods ? Regards, Sev Magat From: <@...> Subject: Re: Luann Coconut Oil Coconut Oil Date: Tuesday, July 12, 2011, 9:53 PM  LouAnn coconut oil is processed using hexane. It is an RBD oil. They say they steam the oil to remove hexane but chances are there are residues left there. > > I currently have Nutiva, Tree of Life and Jarrow coconut oils, but this evening I'm going to try frying some freshly caught bass, dredged in coconut flour, and it's going to be Walmart Louanna brand all the way. Who has $17 for a frying pan full of oil? > > Sidenote: another good way to get Amazon money is by simply dropping your spare change into a jar when you think about it. Coinstar machines ordinarily deduct a hefty 8%, but the machine will put 100% of your money onto an Amazon gift card. My pricey organic virgin coconut oil collection was therefore relatively painless--smile. > > Best, > Candace > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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