Minyak kelapa murni merupakan salah satu minyak yang sejak lama dimanfaatkan oleh masyarakat Indonesia, manfaatnya banyak seperti antibakteri dan antiinflamasi juga telah dibuktikan secara ilmiah. Berdasarkan manfaat tersebut maka atau dikenal dengan virgin coconut oil dapat sebagai bahan dasar pembuatan sabun alternativ untuk pemijatan. Desa jumlah pohon tempat berpotensi mengembangkan murni, ...

Introduction: Alzheimer’s disease is one of the most prevalent neurodegenerative dementia in developed world. This fact, coupled with the lack cure, makes new no pharmacological therapeutic strategies such as nutrient management to investigate. In this regard, it stresses the possible influence of coconut oil as alternative energy source capable of stopping the progressively neuronal death that...

Solid coconut waste was produced after coconut milk extraction process and may still contain up to 24 wt.% oil content. In this work, extraction of oil from coconut waste using batch and soxhlet extractor was studied. Effect of particle size diameter, type of solvent and solvent to solid ratio on the kinetic and thermodynamic parameters; entropy, enthalpy and free energy of extraction were inve...

The process of premature aging is a physiological that will occur in every living thing most visible on the skin. Recent studies proved can be prevented by using anti-aging cosmetics containing antioxidants. Natural origins antioxidant are more desirable than synthetic one as they have benefits and guaranteed safety. Virgin coconut oil (VCO) well-known with its excellent activity abundance avai...

BACKGROUND The literature reports that the health benefits of vegetable oil can be deteriorated by repeated heating, which leads to lipid oxidation and the formation of free radicals. Virgin coconut oil (VCO) is emerging as a functional food oil and its health benefits are attributed to its potent polyphenolic compounds. We investigated the beneficial effect of VCO supplementation on lipid prof...

Comparative efficacy of brodifacoum, bromadialone (second-generation single-dose anticoagulant) was evaluated in a coconut crop on Minicoy Island. Preand postrodent control relative levels of rodent populations and damages were recorded as indices for assessing effectiveness of different concentrations and different bait formulations of three rodenticides. The black rat, Rattus rattus (Linnaeus...

Three "saturated" fats of vegetable origin were fed to different groups of rabbits for periods up to 1 year. Cocoa butter and a hydrogenated vegetable oil shortening produced no hypercholesterolemia. Coconut oil feeding increased the serum cholesterol concentrations for 4 months, but a decline to baseline values occurred after 6 months. No gross atherosclerosis occurred in any animal fed coconu...