Edible Haven Premium Organic Island Products

Healthful, Naturally Gluten-Free Coconut Products
Give Your Foods Amazing Flavor and Texture

Edible Haven organic, naturally gluten-free coconut products add great nutrition and amazing flavor and texture to your cooking and baking, and they benefit your health too. The mild, delicious flavors of the coconut sugar, coconut flour and coconut oil enhance every type of cuisine and promote health and well-being.

Edible Haven Organic Coconut Oil

Edible Haven's organic coconut oil is cold-pressed from fresh coconuts, then whirled in a centrifuge to separate the oil. That's it: pure, fresh coconut oil.

Some coconut oils are heat-extracted, which destroys its nutritional benefits. Others are made by washing the dried coconut meat with toxic carcinogenic solvents like n-hexane or benzene, which makes the resulting oil a toxic chemical soup. Still others are chemically bleached with who knows what kind of poisonous chemicals, or hydrogenated, which creates trans-fats and destroys the integrity of the fatty acid chains.

By the way, organic coconuts have no pesticides used on them. Pesticides, which are fat-soluble, penetrate the membrane of coconuts (and any other produce) and disperse into the oil inside. When you eat the coconut or its oil, the pesticides are stored in your body fat, which will slowly be released to poison you. Yuck. Always avoid pesticide-treated produce, and buy certified organic produce like Edible Haven's Island Products.

Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine your food. ~Hippocrates

Visit the Edible Haven website now to order your premium island products, so you can enjoy what their quality can add to your kitchen, and your life.

Edible Haven Coconut Oil is stable for cooking and baking, and doesn't degrade or convert to trans-fats when heated. Like most oils, it performs best at 350 degrees F. The mild coconut flavor adds the slightest touch of the tropics to your cooking without overpowering your food. I use it for everything I make. Frying foods at a lower temp always gives better results regardless of the oil or fat chosen, and coconut oil protects you from the health-destroying effects of trans-fats, which form in polyunsaturated oils when they're heated.

Edible Haven Coconut Flour has a velvety smooth texture that adds a wonderful mouth-feel and delicious flavor to baked goods. It keeps your baked goods moister because of its oil content, it has loads of dietary fiber, and it's naturally gluten-free. This is one flour I always have on hand, and I reach for it daily. Amazing!

Edible Haven Coconut Sugar is made from the sap of the coconut palm. A fluffy brown mildly sweet sugar, it has a glycemic index of 35, noticeably lower than that of cane sugar, with a GI of 50. The granules are slightly larger than white sugar, but dissolve easily in water (and melt in your mouth!). Wonderful for baking and on cereals and toast, it has a very mild coconut flavor that blends beautifully with spices and other flavors.

A Short History of Coconut Oil

Certain tropical cultures have long used coconuts as their primary food source. For the Tokelau Islanders, for example, coconuts form the basis of their diet, along with a little tuna and other seafood, breadfruit, papaya and other non-oily fruits. Despite their extremely high saturated fat intake, Tokelauans exclusively following the traditional diet have no heart disease, heart attacks, strokes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, high triglycerides, or weight gain.

The Tokelauans form a relatively small sample, as the entire population of Tokelau is only about 1500 people; nevertheless, the results are consistent not only among this people group, but also across other island peoples for whom coconut is the primary food source.

Incidentally, the Tokelauans have mixed Polynesian and European genetics, so coconut benefits non-Islanders as well.

Meanwhile, Back At the Ranch . . .

Here in the United States, research into paints and coatings led to petroleum-based products, which replaced the oilseed products which had been used in lacquers and paints up to that point. Now the oilseed farmers had to find a new market for their oils.

Additionally, ranchers were looking for cheaper ways to feed their cattle and pigs, and to fatten them up quickly. Coconut oil, which was very cheap, was thought to be a great way to make them fat in a hurry, growing them to market size quickly and for little cost.

To the ranchers' surprise, the cattle and pigs became lean, strong and full of energy - and hungry! - not fat and lazy as they had hoped. They free-fed the coconut oil but the animals never gained excessive weight.

The ranchers turned to soy and corn feeds with high vegetable oil content. Immediately the livestock began gaining weight, and at a rapid pace. It was just what the ranchers had been looking for. Soon the livestock were at market weight, which was good since they were developing all kinds of diseases rarely seen before.

The oilseed farmers were happy to have someone to whom to sell their crop, but they wanted to sell their harvest for higher prices. About this time, a famous study came out that purportedly showed that saturated fats caused heart disease. This was a marketing opportunity not to be missed. Pro-American sentiment was stirred up against imported foods like coconut oil and other tropical oils, and more studies (some funded by the oilseed lobby) "proved" the connection between saturated fat and clogged arteries, while also "proving" that polyunsaturated oilseed oils "protect the heart".

There was not, nor is there still, one scrap of evidence that either contention was true.

Lots of evidence demonstrates that saturated fat consumption has no adverse effects on the general population - just look at how the French eat, and how healthy they are. Examples of this abound of both traditional and modern cuisines from around the world.

Coconut Oil Facts

Coconut oil has more lauric acid than any other food on earth except breast milk. In the body, lauric acid converts to monolaurin, which has the ability to cause the lipid coats on bacteria and viruses to disintegrate. Not every bacteria or virus has a lipid coat, but some of our most serious ones do. When the lipid coat disintegrates, the bacteria die and viruses are rendered ineffective. This function explains why breast milk contains so much protective lauric acid.

Coconut oil stimulates the metabolism, increases physical performance, increases thyroid activity, and speeds up cell regeneration. Coconut oil is composed primarily of medium-chain fatty acids (MCFAs), which are easily used by the body for its metabolic functions. MCFAs are also stable, resisting oxidative damage, both during cooking and digestion.

Coconut oil can be burned for energy just like carbohydrates, but can't spike blood sugar because (like any fat) it doesn't produce sugars during metabolism. This means that it is safe for diabetics to use instead of other fats (but check with your doctor if you have concerns) and hypoglycemics can use it for energy without worrying about a subsequent blood sugar crash.

Edible Haven Organic Coconut Oil

Edible Haven's organic coconut oil is cold-pressed from fresh coconuts, then whirled in a centrifuge to separate the oil. That's it: pure, fresh coconut oil.

Some coconut oils are heat-extracted, which destroys its nutritional benefits. Others are made by washing the dried coconut meat with toxic carcinogenic solvents like n-hexane or benzene, which makes the resulting oil a toxic chemical soup. Still others are chemically bleached with who knows what kind of poisonous chemicals, or hydrogenated, which creates trans-fats and destroys the integrity of the fatty acid chains.

By the way, organic coconuts have no pesticides used on them. Pesticides, which are fat-soluble, penetrate the membrane of coconuts (and any other produce) and disperse into the oil inside. When you eat the coconut or its oil, the pesticides are stored in your body fat, which will slowly be released to poison you. Yuck. Always avoid pesticide-treated produce, and buy certified organic produce like Edible Haven's Island Products.

Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine your food. ~Hippocrates

Visit the Edible Haven website now to order your premium island products, so you can enjoy what their quality can add to your kitchen, and your life.

Coming Soon: Edible Haven Coconut Cream!

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