Does Cooking With Coconut Oil Change the Taste of Your Food Video

In this health video you will learn whether cooking with coconut oil will change the taste of your food.
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Female: Bruce, if I’m going to switch to coconut oil. What can I expect if I fry a piece of chicken in coconut oil? Is it going to taste like coconuts? Male: It’s going to taste delicious. Female: Oh yes. Male: Now coconut oil does have a slight flavor to it like you know like all oils have their own milk characteristic flavor and a good quality coconut oil will have mild coconut flavor. And so when you cook things with it, mild tasting foods may take on a little bit of the flavor and which actually enhances a lot of things like potatoes or corn like popcorn and so. Female: Popcorn for example. Male: Yeah enhances the flavor. Now when you cook a product that has it’s own strong flavor like chicken or fish or something like that. It overpowers the coconut flavors, so you don’t even taste any of the coconut. Female: So you would taste it something like popcorn. Male: Right. Female: But you would not with the chicken breast for example and a piece of fish. Male: And I use coconut oil so much in our cooking that today, now it has a neutral taste to me so I can cook anything with it and I never really even taste the coconut anymore. Female: We can taste the olive oil in the olive oil for sure. Male: Olive oil is much stronger in flavor than coconut. Now there are some brands of coconut oil that have a strong flavor which is overpowering and I don’t like those. I prefer the more delicate coconut flavored oils. Female: How do you distinguish between those when you go shopping for them? Male: You really can’t, you have to buy it and taste it. Female: Okay.

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