Coconutty Health & Wellbeing

Things have been busy for our Philippine friends at Cocovida. As well as their imminent move to Eastern Samar (more on that later!) after painstaking product development, this announcement has been made by Cocovida’s Steve Learmouth:

” Within the next month, customers will be able to purchase a new unscented soap, an all natural bar shampoo, an unscented virgin coconut body butter and an unscented virgin coconut body and hair oil. These products have all been rigorously tried and tested, all we are waiting for are the labels for the new range.”

This is just what CocoNutty customers have been asking for! As soon as we get delivery, they will be added to our product catalogue and will be available at the CocoNutty stall and online at www.coconutty.co.uk

We can’t wait!

At a health show in Buxton recently, two ladies came up to the CocoNutty Stall and asked if the coconut oil I was selling was ‘raw’. Surely anything that says ‘virgin’ or ‘cold-pressed’ on the label must be RAW? Right? Well, actually….

Yes it might seem like splitting hairs, but there’s a large and growing number of ‘raw foodies’ out there, and even more admirers. They claim ‘eating raw’ gives increased energy, weight loss (or gain if needed), health and happiness. The radiant glow of these two ladies was proof enough for me…. They told me it’s all about heat… or rather lack of heat. Not heating food preserves the natural enzymes which are good for you. Well a bit of research reveals that nearly all ‘virgin’ and ‘organic’ coconut oils available today have been heated at some stage and so cannot be called ‘raw’. Even those labelled ‘cold-pressed’ are heated before packing. Used as a short-cut, heat is applied to speed up the evaporation of moisture (to a point below 0.1% content to qualify as ‘virgin’). The alternative to heat is patience. Fortunately our suppliers, Cocovida, have plenty of patience. They just wait for the moisture to evaporate, which takes about two weeks in the ambience of the natural ambience of the Philippines.

Now, it gives me great pleasure to quote from the Cocovida Blog (seeing as Steve is always pinching from mine).

“Thursday, August 02, 2007Cocovida Raw Virgin Coconut Oil.In all our many attempts to show our production process on YouTube, we have probably had over 3000 hits. Not many, when judged alongside the hits most dog clips receive, but still quite good. Anybody seeing our process, must surely come to the conclusion there is not a more natural way to produce virgin coconut oil. No heating, no expeller pressing, no centrifuge, no enzymes, no additives. If there is a more natural way to produce our oil, we have no idea what it is.I would guess, if any oil should be described as “raw” virgin coconut oil, it is ours. There can’t possibly be a VCO that is more raw……..So, we will now be labelling our jars, “Cocovida Raw Virgin Coconut Oil”, because that is exactly what it is. What you get in the jar, is what it says on the label.You may visit other VCO websites, where they sell expeller-pressed, heated oil, and denigrate raw products. You will quite often find that they try to justify the heating of their oil by saying it prolongs the shelf life. What absolute rubbish. I don’t honestly think they actually believe that statement themselves. It is very easy to make sure your oil has a low moisture content, without heating it. Our oil was tested for two years by The Philippine Coconut Authority, who found absolutely no deterioration over that time period, despite the fact we hadn’t “cooked” it, to rid it of the moisture content very quickly.You can also read ridiculous claims that all coconut oil is subjected to extreme heat, because coconuts grow at the top of trees in very hot countries………..I would guess that the people who write this rubbish have never tasted juice from a freshly harvested coconut; it is actually quite cool and very refreshing.You may also come across statements, that VCO is always subjected to extreme heat on the ships, as it is transported for weeks, halfway round the world. Not ours, we use airfreight, from The Philippines to our distributors in Europe within 2-3 days. Is this turning into another of my rants? Probably. If so I apologise, but you do read such complete rubbish, from people who have probably never seen VCO production.We have always made our production process open to scrutiny. Over the last two years, anybody and everybody has been welcome to come and watch us produce Cocovida Raw Virgin Coconut Oil; we have hidden nothing. Next month we are moving our production plant toEastern Samar. We will have the same “open house” policy. I would assume that not many of my millions of readers will be passing by Eastern Samar within their lifetime. However, if you happen to be the exception, you will always be made welcome at our plant,……..and you can even help in the production of “really raw” VCO.”

Oh yes… really raw virgin coconut oil is available in the UK from Coconutty.co.uk 

If you’re interested in finding out what people are saying about coconut oil, have a look at

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/coconut_oil_open_forum/

Recently, I made this post:

A question for all you wordsmiths out there - is ‘coconutty’ a real

word? I promote coconut oil and soaps at markets and shows, using the

name ‘Coconutty’ as it describes my passion for all things coconut.

However, it doesn’t appear to be in the dictionary, and even worse - it

doesn’t even count in a game of scrabble! Strangely though, a Google

search of the word ‘coconutty’ brings up over 47,000 results. Also it’s

used time and again in this forum.

If anyone could shed any light on this puzzle, I’d love to hear. Do you

think it should be put forward as a ‘proper’ word? Can it even be

called a ‘word’? Maybe we could start a campaign?

Matthew

If you are looking for a grammar rule approach it from the back end LOL “ty”

The suffix “ty” changes a noun to an adjective describing the state of or

the quality of.

Just my funny mind at play

Cathy

— In coconut_oil_open_forum@yahoogroups.com, “J.Keliipio”

<Josephina@…> wrote:

> 

> You can make up any word you want.

> That is what marketing firms do all the time.

> Who said it needs to be in a dictionary first or

> that it has to be a real word?

> Go ahead and use coconutty. Its a very descriptive adjective for

anything coconut. I like it.

I agree that a word can be and SHOULD be made up to suit the

circumstance or description of something.  Dictionaries frequently

add lists of new words gleaned from repeated use in real life.  I

heard that recently a major dictionary publisher has done just that.

Personally, I have made a number of cooked products that can only be

described as COCONUTTY!!  The recipes that I found using coconut

flour and without grains can only be described as COCONUTTY.  You can

give recipes many descriptive titles, but the comment below the Title

of a recipe with pronounced coconut taste can only be:  Very

Coconutty! ~~~Janet

COCONUTTY!

I like the sound of it.  It has a beat.

We want to tell the whole world about the amazing health benefits of Coconuts. If you’re COCO-NUTTY and want to get involved, you could host Coconut Parties, become a Reseller or promote CocoNutty in other ways. For more information, please email info@coconutty.co.uk or comment on this post.

Internet shopping can be addictive. Tap a few buttons and within days your new parcel lands on the doorstep. Fantastic. What’s this got to do with coconuts? Currently there are over thirty coconut oil website sellers in the UK alone, all desperate for you to tap their buttons.

In 2006, when I was just starting to look into all this, I tapped a few coconut buttons and ended up with about twelve different coconut parcels. If you’re buying coconut oil for its health benefits, you might as well find a good one. Without having access to scientific analysis machines, I checked out the colour, aroma and taste. Result? Shades of white varied more than a Dulux paint chart. Some tasted of fresh coconut; some of cooked coconut; some had a ‘burnt’ smell; one smelt so bad there’s no way you’d risk tasting it. Ok, hardly a scientific test, but the differences were obvious.

Herein lies the problem. Every Internet seller says that their particular brand is the best; that theirs is made like no one else’s and that if your computer screen could hand out to you a sample of their amazing product, you would be in absolute awe at the quality. Trouble is you don’t know. You can’t know until you buy. It’s a leap of faith.

Which is why hopefully, CocoNutty is different. Instead of being just an Internet company operating behind the curtain of cyberspace, CocoNutty is a living, breathing stall coming to a place near you (that is if you live in the North of England!). You can visit the stall and try before you buy. Taste the coconut oil and apply it to your skin. See, smell and touch the natural coconut soaps. On warm days you can even try the purest isotonic drink on earth - coconut water. And you can find out how the result of those first coconut parcels led in the direction of award-winning Philippine manufacturer CocoVida.

See you there!

Many people have been asking me - WHY COCONUTS? Well here’s a brief explanation…

My ‘coconut journey of discovery’ began last year when reading about how good coconut oil is for the skin. Having had problem-skin since my teens, why had I never heard about coconut oil before? I tried it and was astonished. Why had doctors prescribed petroleum-based treatments and steroid creams, without suggesting something pure and natural like coconut oil?

A TV documentary told of how shipwreck survivors had lived for weeks on nothing but coconuts! They drank coconut water, ate coconut meat (kernel), rubbed coconut oil into their skin for sun protection and used the shells to make the clip-clop sounds of horse hoofs– I made that last one up.

Then I came across Virgin Coconut Oil. After cooking with virgin coconut oil and eating it off the spoon I found that I had more energy and after a couple of days needed less sleep. This really got me interested.

What opened my eyes, though, was finding out that coconut water has been used for life-saving treatment in intravenous drips as a plasma substitute - due to its perfect electrolyte balance. Maybe that’s why coconut water has been called ‘The Fluid of Life’. If you’ve never tried drinking coconut water (juice) before, you don’t know what you’re missing. Highly recommended as an energy-booster and thirst-quencher, it beats the big-name isotonic sports drinks hands-down - you know the ones!

Coconut for weight loss? Being skeptical, this headline sounded like a load of old rubbish. We were told that eating coconut would make us FAT, weren’t we? But many studies are now finding just the opposite. What should one believe? Well since last November I’ve been putting coconuts to the test by eating loads of coconut oil, cream and milk, snacking on coconut chips and eating virgin coconut oil with everything (drink it in coffee too). At the time of writing, I’ve lost 24 lbs. Just as surprising, my cholesterol has gone down too. Ok, bread and cakes have been cut down, but the coconut wins again!

Look around the internet or read articles about coconut oil and there are some astonishing claims being made about its health benefits and ability to treat all kinds of conditions. In the Philippines, virgin coconut oil has been called ‘A Drugstore in a Bottle’.

The old adage of ‘what you focus on you will see everywhere’ is certainly true of coconuts. They’re all around us, everywhere you look…in food, drinks and confectionery…soaps, shampoos and conditioners…coconut coir in mats, twine, brushes, bags, mattresses and fishing nets…coconut shell in necklaces, bags, guitars, cups, and wind chimes… charcoal and activated carbon used in water and air filtration…coconut oil used as a bio-fuel in third-world trucks….the list is almost endless. Maybe that’s why in the Philippines, the Coconut Palm is known as ‘The Tree of Life’.

Could coconut be the single most versatile gift on the planet? And could coconut possess more health promoting properties than anything else on earth? Do ‘drug-store bottles’ fall off ‘trees of life’? If so, why isn’t there a shop that specializes in natural and organic coconut products for health and well-being? …Do you see what I just did there?

I hope you enjoy the site www.coconutty.co.uk. It’s really an extension of the real-life CocoNutty stall, coming to an Organic Event near you….that is if you live in the North of England!

The last few months have been spent searching out the best organic coconut products. Pure, raw, natural, with no nasty additives, supplied by the most ethical producers. Maybe I should have gone down the cheap route to sell more? But then again, there’s no point trying to convince people of coconut’s health benefits using second-rate products.…

Why coconuts? … If you want to enhance your diet with raw foods; if you prefer a dairy-free, gluten-free or vegan diet; if you want better skin and hair; if you want to avoid trans-fats in your diet or harsh chemicals in your soap…….then perhaps you’ve found an answer.

Matthew
www.coconutty.co.uk

A BIG HELLO to those I’ve had the pleasure of meeting at recent shows around the North of England and I hope you’re enjoying your CocoNutty products. I’d love to hear your comments, which you can post here.

If you’d like free delivery of Virgin Coconut Oil, Coconut Beauty Oils or Soaps, please go to http://www.CocoNutty.co.uk

Matthew