The Coconut

MAY 2011 NUTRITION

Coconut boasts a variety of healthful advantages from its milk to meat to water. Most importantly, coconuts are CHOLESTEROL-FREE!

Coconut water, like Zico you can find at Trader Joe’s, contains the five major electrolytes you lose when you’re cycling and has more potassium than a banana in each serving!

Coconut meat contains a generous amount of dietary fiber, which most of us are lacking in our daily diets.

Coconut milk does contain saturated fat; however it is made up of short-chain and medium-chain fatty acids that the body quickly turns into energy instead of storing as fat.

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