Common Problems when buying VCO from Community

The most common problem encountered when buying VCO from the community is, rancidity and high water content. Rancidity is a sign that the VCO has been damaged, the organoleptic not feel fresh. VCO damage from rancidity  is free radicals or free fatty acids that would be bad for the body's metabolism. Long contact between oil and water at the manufacturing process  also accelerate the oil rancidity. Bad packaging also resulted in these rancidity.

While high water content  will make the VCO looks cloudy, visible layer at the bottom of the pack and will accelerate the destruction of oil through the hydrolysis reaction. This high water content caused by phase separation of oil and water are not good, so much water from ending up on oil.

Only fresh VCO  is consumable and good for the health effect. Be careful to get good quality VCO. Select only VCO that has used modern technology to manufacture.

Modernization of VCO Industry in Indonesia

Organic VCO Plant

As the owner of the world's largest coconut plantation with coconut production number 2 after the Philippine, Indonesia needs to modernize its VCO Industry. While there are still many rural VCO is made by traditional tools and modern industry has not applied, then the steps to get there need to be initiated. Some common problems encountered in VCO production scale home industries are:
1.    Hygiene process. The use of simple tools and supporting materials such as water quality uncontrolled make good hygiene is difficult to achieve. In addition, the selection of such an unhealthy place close to the corral hygiene contributed to aspects of the production process VCO. The use of sterile water will greatly affect the hygiene of VCO.

2.    High water content contained in VCO products. High water content in oil can be easily damaged VCO made by hydrolysis.

3.    Production Capacity. To pursue the capacity of medium-and large-scale production of the continuity of raw materials and production unit in the form of adequate plant needs to be put in such a way. Upstream sector of the internsif coconut cultivation should be encouraged.

4.    Organic certification. Although he was almost certain that pure coconut trees in Indonesia as organic since there is no additional chemical fertilizers and other inorganic chemicals, but official certification is required. This is for the benefit of trust with business partners and the price of the VCO itself.

5.    Integrated industry. Coconut as a plant believed to all parts of life that can be exploited, so that the necessary efforts to increase the value added by making use of everything. Coconut water is used as raw materials nata de coco and recent research that the water from poor phase coconut oil can also be used for the manufacture of nata de coco, this means no water being dumped in the manufacture of VCO. Waste for animal feed and blondo for the biscuit.

Coconut shell is made charcoal or biochar by pyrolysis process  thus be further processed into briquettes and activated charcoal. Modern technology of this now available, with  continuous pyrolysis technology capacities from 20 tons / day - 200 tons / day of INPUT. For more information please visit at cmc-indo.blogspot.com

Coconut fiber (coco fiber) can be used as raw material for the manufacture of car seats and spring bed  because of a good fiber quality. The market is still very open, so there is no reason to ignore it. Waste production of coconut fiber that is coco dust  also can be made charcoal with continous pyrolysis technology  for making briquette (renewable energy application) , and with the excess heat used to dry the coco fiber at the process.

Let’s do it!

The New Health Oils for this Millenium: a bright future for an industry adapted from Jon J.Kabara, Ph.D

Never before in the history of man is it so important to emphasize the value of Lauric Oils. The medium-chain fats in coconut oil are similar to fats in mother’s milk and have similar nutriceutical effects.

Since that time monolaurin has found use in cosmetic, pharmaceuticals and in clinical medicine. Monolaurin as a dietary supplement  has shown extraordinary and exciting results as an antibiotic and as an antiviral agent.
The latter property against lipid coated viruses was first demonstrated by Hierholzer and Kabara more than sixteen years ago. Since that time our studies have been confirmed and extended by others. Literature references for the use of monolaurin are now appearing at an increasing rate showing application in dental cares, peptic ulcers, benign prostatic hyperplasia, genital herpes, hepatitis C as well as HIV/AIDS. After years of neglect by others I have finally convinced the medical community and now important clinical studies are finally increasing at a rapid pace.  

Kabara's prediction at an international conference of the American Oil Chemist Society(1995) that these tropical oil derivatives were going to be the new health oils for the next millennium is coming true. Not only does monolaurin have antibiotic and antiviral activity but also these remarkable derivatives have been
shown not to cause resistance organisms to appear.  In addition, it  has now been shown that monolaurin can reduce the resistance of germs to antibiotics.  

The medium chain fatty acids and monoglycerides found primarily in these two tropical oils and mothers milk have miraculous healing power.

Never before in recent times has  recognition of the positive health effects of  tropical oils been stronger. New and exciting health and industrial uses of monolaurin are available and predictable. Monolaurin derived from coconut and palm kernel oils suggest a bright future for an industry that was once referred to as a "sunset industry".  This means that the oil industry must move quickly to modernize itself in making  value added products from these oils which will  contribute to a more vigorous and healthy agriculture future.

HEALTH OILS FROM THE TREE OF LIFE (NUTRITIONAL AND HEALTH ASPECTS OF COCONUT OIL) adapted from Jon J. Kabara, Ph.D*

Coconut Tree

Coconut and palm tree has a long history of providing man with useful materials for his daily life. None is more important than the oils obtained from these coconut and palm nut. Coconut and palm kernel oils were recognized as health oils in Ayurvedic medicine almost 4000 years ago.


The same health effects were also found in Sanskrit medicine for mother’s milk. Mention was made that freshly expressed human milk was adopted as an "antibiotic" after eye surgery. Modern research has now found a common link between these two natural health products----their fat or lipid content.


For over thirty years Kabara's lipid laboratory has pioneered finding relationships between natural and synthetic lipids and their biological activity. Kabara indicated that the fatty acids and monoglycerides found in these two natural products had extraordinary antimicrobial properties.


Over a period of 30 years his teams screened other lipids hoping too improve on nature. During this period they screened some 300 lipids and other structures for antimicrobial activity.


His team failed and so Kabara returned to nature for clues. The medium chain fatty acids and monoglycerides found primarily in these two

Monolaurin

tropical oils and mothers milk have miraculous healing power. It is rare in thehistory of medicine to find substances that have such useful properties and still be without toxicity or even harmful side effects.


*Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University and Consultant to Private Industries,Universities and Government Agencies, Galena, Illinois, USA

How VCO control your body weight ? by Eko SB Setyawan

Virgin coconut oil known as oil that capable to slim body so that tend to to be liked by girls comprehending its benefit. Oil benefit which come from coconut fruit broader more than slim the body. Please read what is VCO? ( previous article), to know more benefit of VCO.

VCO content of high lauric acid ( until 53%), a saturated fat enchained ( with its carbon 12) which is ordinary to be referred as medium chain fatty acid alias MCFA. One kind of food which can improve metabolism even more than protein is virgin coconut oil. MCFA change metabolism to higher level, burning more calorie. This happened each time when eat MCFA, because MCFA improve number of metabolic, they represent fat which in fact can lose body weight. Fat losing body weight non adding it represent one very foreign concept, but that's really happened.
Saturated fat contain in virgin coconut oil useful to control body weight. Obesity have become to the health problem United States society, with 55 % of its people experience of the body overweight problem.

Obesity, heart disease, and osteoporosis is situations which result from lower body metabolism. To yield energi of carbohydrate, required insulin so that glucose can come into cell.

Many people have problem of insulin production when them become old so that its body find difficulties to obtain energy from carbohydrate. Glucose which do not or not yet been exploited for energy turned into triglyceride and circularized to entire body.

Trigliceride and lipoprotein have to penetrate cell wall so that can be used to become energy, and both also require enzyme to be able to penetrate membrane of mitokondria in cell, place of energy yielded.

But, MCFA have the unique, that is that it does not require enzyme to penetrate wall of mitokondria so that can yield energy swiftly and efficient. That is why there are people tell, consuming MCFA look like by fueling vehicle with high octan.
Because of easy MCFA permeated into cell then into mitokondria, metabolism even also mount. Addition of energy yielded by that metabolism yield stimulation effect in all our body.

Beside improve our energy level, there is other benefit along with make-up of that metabolism for example, make-up of endurance to disease and acceleration of disease healing. With make-up of metabolism, our cells work more efficient. They form new cells and also change damage cells faster Japanese Researcher, T Fushiki and K Matsumoto report that with consuming virgin coconut oil, body not only having bigger energy, but also have longer endurance.

In its usage virgin coconut can consume directly, or for cooking. With chemical structure which do not contain double bond, this oil have the character of to hold up to heat, light, oxygen, and hold up to degradation process. With nature of that, virgin coconut oil can be kept easily room temperature during through years.
VCO with Nutrition Value in one tablespoon (in 14 gr Oil) Contents of :
1 Calory 125 Kcal
2 Saturated Fat 12,5 gr
3 Polyunsaturated Fat 1 gr
4 Monounsaturated Fat 0,5 gr
Oil Composition :
1 Caprylic Acid 8,86%
2 Myristic Acid 19,97%
3 Capric Acid 6,17%
4 Palmitic Acid 7,84%
5 Lauric Acid 50,83%
6 Stearic Acid 3,06%

As biggest archipelagic country, Indonesia is the biggest coconut plantation ( Cocos Nucifera ) in the world with 3.712 million hectares width, what almost entirely is people plantation and represent income generator about two and a half million farmer families.

Author : Eko SB Setyawan, eko.sb.setyawan@gmail.com

What is VCO? By Eko SB Setyawan

VCO is now getting global reputation as the healthiest and versatile oil in the world. Indonesia is one of the best sources of virgin coconut oil and it''s popularity in the country is legendary. Virgin Coconut Oil can only be achieved by using fresh coconut meat or what is called non-copra. Chemicals and high heating are not used in further refining, since the natural, pure coconut oil is very stable with a shelf life of several years.

Virgin coconut oil and regular coconut oil is rich in Lauric Acid, an essential fatty acid that is only found in high concentrations in mother''s milk. When taken internally, Lauric Acid turns into a compound known as Monolaurin. It is this compound that is believed to fight viral pathogens that protects the body from bacteria, viruses and infections from parasites. Coconut oil also causes the metabolic rate to increase, hence helps reduce weight and is safe and beneficial for diabetics.

For many years, coconut oil has been discredited (specially in the west) because of it''s high saturated fat content. But recent studies have shown that not all saturated fats are the same. The medium chain triglycerides of which virgin coconut oil is classified, does not elevate LDL (the bad cholesterol) in our body compared to other polyunsaturated vegetable oils such as canola and sunflower oil which is widely produced in the west.

How made VCO
There are currently two main processes of manufacturing Virgin Coconut Oil:
1. Quick drying of fresh coconut meat which is then used to press out the oil. Using this method, the coconut meat is quick dried, and the oil is then pressed out via mechanical means.
2. Wet-milling. With this method the oil is extracted from fresh coconut meat without drying first. "Coconut milk" is expressed first by pressing. The oil is then further separated from the water. Methods which can be used to separate the oil from the water include boiling, fermentation, refrigeration, enzymes and mechanical centrifuge.

Difference between Virgin Coconut Oil (VCO) and Regular (RBD) Coconut Oil
RBD stands for Refined, Bleached, and Deodorized. Ordinary coconut oil usually comes from copra - coconut meat that is dried by either smoke, kiln or placing under the sun. Because the process itself is not sanitized, the oil must be further refined. To get more oil from copra, chemicals are usually used. RBD process is required to make the oil clear, odor free and tasteless. This procedure also removes the anti-oxidant and other properties of the oil. Some coconut oils are also hydrogenated which increases the serum cholesterol levels and thus is bad for the heart. While virgin coconut oil, being pure, unadulterated and unhydrogenated retains it''s pleasant coconut taste, smell and all the health benefits of coconut oil. So,one of the main differences between Virgin Coconut oil and refined coconut oils is the scent and taste. All Virgin Coconut Oils retain the fresh scent and taste of coconuts, whereas the copra-based refined coconut oils have a bland taste due to the refining process. Some grades of refined copra-based oils are also now sold that have a coconut flavor, but are usually bitter and have a burnt taste to it. They are a form of "crude coconut oil" that has not undergone all of the deodorizing process, and they have a shorter shelf-life.

Benefits of VCO
● A boost to the body''s immune system
● A good source of saturated medium chain triglycerides
● VCO helps regulate blood sugar
● Lowers the viral load of AIDS patients.
● Has anti-viral & anti-microbial properties
● Helps hepatitis C, herpes patients
● Helps maintain healthy thyroid function
● Maintain LDL & HDL cholesterol levels
● Heals & nourishes the skin, hair & scalp

Author : Eko SB Setyawan, eko.sb.setyawan@gmail.com

Virgin Coconut Oil for Best Food Supplement By Eko SB Setyawan

Indonesia is state broadly plantation of coconut of nomer one in world. Coconut benefit for health in fact have been recognized by society since ahead. General issue in Indonesia in this time is technology processing of coconut mostly still traditional so that only can as local commodity, non international trade. Many experts in Indonesia which have introduced various technology processing of coconut in Indonesia, but because by most society still is costly, so that they tend to to sell intact coconut without processing. Though many commodities from coconut have good market in international market, one of them virgin coconut oil or of VCO. Even though there are some entrepreneurs which have can make VCO with quality of goodness by following existing process standard.

Pamour coconut oil have time to be gloomy after west media report on immeasurable lacking of coconut oil one of them because fatty acid content of high saturated fat enough. Finally they suggest to consume vegetable oil, palm oil, or corn oil. From various research is nowadays known by this is trade politics which do not fair.

Fact prove, United States where its resident consuming many vegetable oil, number occurence of high heart sickness enough. Its meaning, opinion that vegetable oil more is peaceful compared to palm oil start to be questioned .

Meanwhile research into conducted by Weston A Price expert dr of nutrition of United States show coconut oil consumption do not at moment's notice result heart sickness. Research done in island of Pukapuka, New Zealand find that very low heart sickness case there, though most its resident consume coconut oil in number very big, around 60% from totalizeing consumed calorie.
Various Benefit of VCO

In fact, research of circumstantial klinis about benefit of VCO not yet too much, so that medically benefit of VCO not yet can be justified. Nevertheless there is expert feeling benefit of VCO this for the food of supplement so that improve body endurance from various disease.
VCO has fatty acid content of high lauric. Lauric acid represent saturated fatty acid related to or referred as also with medium of chain fatty acid ( MCFA). Fatty acid of this fat is very easy permeated by body, do not be piled up first as fat like fatty acid related to length.
Some erudite research find immeasurablely of benefit of VCO to health and medication of disease. VCO believed can overcome immeasurablely of health problem, like disease of digestive channel and disease of degeneratif. According to international standard, VCO will give its if in this virgin coconut oil consist in lauric acid minimum counted 25%. Field fact, obstetrical of lauric acid produced in Indonesia most of all residing in at range above 40%.
With its content of medium chain fatty acid (MCFA), VCO also have ability prevent some the following disease type:
1. Killing various virus causing mononucleosis , influenza, hepatitis, and herpes
2. Killing various bacterium type cause of disease of pneumonia, earache, holey tooth, poisoned of food, ureter infection, and meningitis.
3. Killing yeast and mushroom which can cause candia disease, jock itch, athetes foot and rash because sweat
4. Assisting to assuage symptoms and lessen attributed to health risk of melitus diabetes
5. Lessening related to trouble of digestive difficulty symptom and cystic fibrosis
6. Assisting to protect body of attack of osteoporosis
7. Assuaging attributed to symptom of chorn's disease, ulcerative colitis and peptic ulcer
8. Assisting to protect body of bosom cancer attack and colon cancer
9. Degrading hypertension cholesterol rate.
10. Assisting in prevention of ill heart attack, stroke and atherosclerosis.
11. Protecting body of dangerous free radical which improve disease of degeneratif.
12. Assisting to prevent hypertension.
13. Assuaging symptom benign prostatic hyperplasia
14. Assisting to prevent disease of lever.
15. Assisting to prevent disease of lever.

Result of research dr Condrado Dayrit from Philippine indicate that lauric acid and capic acid which consist in in VCO can kill virus. In body, lauric acid turned into monolaurin while capric acid turn into monocaprin. This compound is including compound of monogliserida having the character of as antivirus, antibakteri, and antibiotic of antiprotozoa. This Monocaprin which used by suplemen have brand of Capricidin to fight virus of HIV.

Various information about benefit of VCO have reveal new expectation about matter which can be useful for the health of human being. Nevertheless till now still not yet been known surely mechanism constitutoing various benefit of VCO. Its Meaning, need advanced research about benefit of VCO before ensured that this compound is true be of benefit to health. So far research of benefit of VCO to medication of new disease only research early and is untested of klinis. Its benefit newly limited to improving body stamina, loo like functional food suplemen and not yet been categorized as drug. Producer claim expressing VCO can heal immeasurablely of disease in fact tend to to mislead. More than anything else for the patient of certain disease like diabetes. All patient of diabetes better take counsel with doctor before consuming VCO.