Coconut and Fermented Foods

March 23, 2002

Hi. I've been including some naturally fermented food with each meal

for several months. I've also been consuming about 350g of fresh,

raw coconut meat each day. I understand that coconut oil contains

lauric acid, which has anti-microbial properties in the human

digestive tract. Could my high intake of lauric acid kill off the

beneficial bacteria that I try to ingest each day? Just a thought...

Thanks!

March 25, 2002

>Hi. I've been including some naturally fermented food with each meal

>for several months. I've also been consuming about 350g of fresh,

>raw coconut meat each day. I understand that coconut oil contains

>lauric acid, which has anti-microbial properties in the human

>digestive tract. Could my high intake of lauric acid kill off the

>beneficial bacteria that I try to ingest each day? Just a thought...

>Thanks!

Interesting notion. I was eating raw coconut for awhile and quit

because it felt like a lead bowling ball in my gut. Haven't tried

straight coconut oil yet, but decided the nut didn't work for me.

--

Quick

" One of these days someone smarter and younger and more articulate

than I is going to get through to the American people just how really

messed up it has become. And when that happens, the American people are

going to rise up like that football crowd in Cleveland and run both

teams off the field. " --Sen. Zell

March 25, 2002

At 12:06 PM 3/25/2002 -0500, you wrote:

>I understand that coconut oil contains

> >lauric acid, which has anti-microbial properties in the human

> >digestive tract

Maybe the lauric acid breaks down easily? Otherwise I wouldn't expect a

coconut to ferment from bacteria as easily as they do.

-=marmk=-

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