Healthy Origins Organic Extra Virgin Coconut Oil, 54 Ounce

First time trying Healthy Origins Organic Extra Virgin Coconut Oil. Very pleased: color, texture, taste and smell all good indicators of a quality oil. Light coconut smell and taste; don't confuse with that of a suntan oil smell. While nice, you really don't want to smell like a constant sun bathing tourist when using for moisturizing or in DIY beauty products. I don't use coconut oil for cooking purposes so can't comment on the taste appropriateness individual persons look for. I do take a tablespoon daily and sometimes put it over hot rice, and pleased with this manufacturer's oil. Extra virgin refers to the number of times pressed or low steamed during its processing, less is best. Coconut oil of this nature is affected by climate conditions so store in a cool area. IF it does turn to a liquid due to heat, it will again solidify taking anywhere from 2-3 days when a jar of this quantity. It doesn't affect the quality of the oil, and a natural coconut sediment will be visually noticeable. It will smooth evenly when applying to skin or blend smoothly into other products. If heating at low temp in warm or hot water, it will turn to the clear oil desired. This is a fantastic oil and price appropriate. Do not let other manufacturer's higher prices fool you as to a better quality oil, they are only price GOUGING the market due to coconut oils recent popularity and consumer demand. Realistically, a high quality coconut oil or even olive oil, should never cost more than $8 - $10.00 per 16 oz no matter where grown and manufactured, especially if from the Philippines. That being said: smaller family owned farms have higher prices based on equipment and labor intensive overhead costs. Further, you don't want to purchase any oils or butters from manufacturers that make various other oil or butter products as cross contamination DOES occur from either the machinery or environment. I will definitely purchase my coconut oil needs from Healthy Origins, unless their prices inflate due to demand. Best wishes to all in health and life.

Loved this product great value for the money smelled sooo good and my grandson loved eating it tasted like coconut smelled like coconut worked so good in my products! Only complaint went to buy it again couldn't get it!

I use coconut oil on my skin and also a little for cooking. I’ve tried other brands and been satisfied but somewhat disappointed. The few I tried had a weird smell to the oil - not bad or unpleasant but just weird. They also had pockets of imperfections, so while they were mostly smooth, there was often a gritty texture. That’s fine for cooking because it melts away to nothing anyway, but on my hands it makes it not smooth.This oil is different! I just got it today and I am here already to leave this review. The texture is SMOOTH, and I cannot emphasize that enough. So far I’ve felt nothing gritty at all, and it is so smooth in my hands.The smell is AMAZING. It has that delicious and sweet coconut smell that you probably love if you’re shopping for coconut oil. I was actually caught off guard by the smell because I had gotten used to the strange odorless smell of other brands I had been using.I haven’t cooked with it yet, but I did taste it. The coconut flavor is subtle and the texture is super smooth and melts so fast, as expected from before. You don’t want the oil to have a strong taste when cooking so it doesn’t overpower your dish. I can imagine this will be great for cooking, and even more amazing in desserts.No added sweetness, chemicals, preservatives, or other additives. And it’s also a massive containerSo yeah, if you’re shopping for a coconut oil, look no further and get this one. It smells, tastes, and feels great. If anything changes for some reason I will update this review. But I can see myself getting a second container for the kitchen dedicated to cooking

The product is pretty fragrant, smells like coconut. I cooked up a pepper stir fry with eggs and it had a nice coconut taste that welcomed in the dish.There are some debates about whether or not coconut is the best oil to use, or the worst, or whether to use any oil at all.I saw several pubmed studies that made clear the benefits of using coconut oil. This kind of cold pressed and minimally processed, and doesn't have polyunsaturated fats that like in Canola oil that are pretty controversial. Coconut has the benefit of being a food very low in pesticides, and they aren't genetically modified, unlike a lot of plants that create the common cooking oil. Organic grass-fed cow butter would be your alternative, but that's expensive, probably should be refrigerated, you can't get it as easily online (might have to be cooled.) Consider that other butters or even just "organic" butters won't be quite optimal, though butter is delicious. Coconut is a cherished fruit for me, as a college student who can't afford a ton to eat. It's filling and high and fat, and pure creamed coconut can be cheaply bought, stored, and made into fresh coconut milk for milkshakes at more calories/dollar than even non-organic whole milk. Coconut is low in or contains no pesticide residue, and the animal issues like hormone usage, antibiotics, or pasteurization don't apply. If you cook and bake with margarine, soybean oil, canola oil, olive oil, note that a lot of these oils become less healthy for you at high heat, and may not be suitable for cooking, which is why olive oil is often used as a dressing rather than solely for cooking, and if your butter isn't grass fed, you might not be getting all the "heart-healthy" saturated fat that a lot of diets hail you should be eating. Coconut oil, from what I've seen, seems like the safer bet. No transmutation akin to making corn into oil here, just the fat from the coco fruit.But it's for you to decide and test for yourself, because there's so much conflicting evidence. Coconut's health merits could very well be deconstructed in the near future. We as a nation might someday consider the Japanese high starch, fruit, vegetables, daily fish and weekly meat diet that won't emphasize fats and cooking oils, rather than looking at other diets where coconut oil could be used daily.Essentially, with anything you do or learn, you should question and challenge it constantly using your own comparative testing, common sense, research, and investigative studying.I wanted to give some thoughts to a sort of recent health food phenomena.Peace, and I hope people will find this thought-provoking.

量がありますので普段使いには最適です。残りを気にすることなく気兼ねなく使えます。かおりはボチボチ、高価な品を使ったことがないのでわかりませんが、満足しています。