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Category: > Health > Can You Cook with Fractionated Coconut Oil?

Can You Cook with Fractionated Coconut Oil?

Dec 26, 2017 Soon Chai Save For Later Print

Last Updated: Mar 28, 2020

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A bottle of fractionated coconut oil on a pan that's placed over a fire

Before telling you whether you can cook with fractionated coconut oil, let me back up a little bit.

Fractionated coconut oil is a name given to an oil that carries only medium-chain triglycerides (MCTs). It’s named as such due to the involvement of fractionation in the refining process.

For different purposes, manufacturers or companies label it differently. Some simply label their product as “Fractionated Coconut Oil”, some call it “MCT Oil” while a few others name it “Liquid Coconut Oil”.

Which Fractionated Coconut Oil can You Cook with?

If you wish to know whether you can cook with the one that they label as “Fractionated Coconut Oil”, let me tell you, you can’t. Why? It has not passed the food grade test. And so, you can only use it topically.

People use this fractionated coconut oil more commonly as a carrier oil for diluting essential oils in massage. Of course, you can also use it on your scalp and hair. As long as you use it externally, you’re safe.

On the other hand, you can cook with the fractionated coconut oil that they either label as “MCT Oil” or “Liquid Coconut Oil”. They’re edible because they have passed the food grade test.

Cooking with MCT Oil

However, my experience in cooking with this type of fractionated coconut oil wasn’t a pleasant one. After pouring some MCT oil onto the frying pan and slowly turned up the heat, I could smell the mild pungent odor coming from the oil. I didn’t quite like it.

The mouthfeel of the cooked food was peculiar too. It tasted as such probably because the fractionated coconut oil comprises only caprylic and capric acids. Natural coconut oil, on the other hand, carries a variety of fatty acids that makes the oil more satisfying.

Cooking with Liquid Coconut Oil

If you’re like me, you can choose liquid coconut oil. It’s a fractionated coconut oil “designed” specifically for cooking. It tastes a bit more oily as it contains an extra MCT compound – lauric acid.

They add lauric acid trying to make fractionated coconut oil as good as virgin coconut oil, which contains the beneficial lauric acid.

However, I still prefer cooking with my choice virgin coconut oil because it makes my food tastier and more enjoyable.

Not cooking with MCT oil doesn’t mean I don’t use it at all.

I love adding more energy punch to my soy milk, green smoothie or multigrain drink with MCT oil during breakfast. Why? Because I know very well that MCT converts to energy very quickly.

That also explains why many people are now adding MCT oil to make a bulletproof coffee.

I use MCT oil for skin care too because it seeps quickly into my skin. And my skin becomes silky smooth in an instant.

That’s my take on using and consuming fractionated coconut oil.

If you don’t mind the little pungent smell emitted during cooking and you like your food to be less oily, then you’ll enjoy cooking with fractionated coconut oil that is edible.

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Filed Under: Food Education, Health Tagged With: fractionated coconut oil, liquid coconut oil, mct oil

Soon Chai

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Soon Chai has been eating and using lots of various types of coconut oil daily for 14 long years. If you need the best coconut oil to boost your health and improve your skin in as little as 7 days, follow his practical coconut oil guide for beginners now.

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Comments

  1. Alan Brown says

    Nov 23, 2018 at 1:56 am

    Your articles are very informative. thank you for sharing your knowledge of coconut oils. i would like to start buying MCT oil in bulk. can you suggest a producer? and in what country to you live. pls send me an email

    Reply
    • Carly Fraser says

      Nov 23, 2018 at 7:56 am

      Maybe Soon Chai (the author of this article) can chime in?

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      • Soon Chai says

        Nov 29, 2018 at 2:42 am

        Alan has already gotten my reply to his email the other day. 😉

        Reply
  2. Jay says

    Mar 21, 2019 at 8:19 pm

    HI, thank you very much for this article.

    I read somewhere that “Fractionated Coconut Oil” are used as preservatives for gummy bears. Any idea how this is possible?

    Reply
    • Carly Fraser says

      Mar 22, 2019 at 3:42 pm

      Maybe the author can let you know? I’ve never heard of anything like that.

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      • Jay says

        Mar 22, 2019 at 6:44 pm

        I am very skeptical too but also curious as to why and how that is possible.

        https://www.leaf.tv/articles/gummy-candy-ingredients/ is my source. It highlights Haribo, but I also noticed coconut oil is an ingredient in ‘Black forest’, which is another gummy brand.

        I’ll really appreciate your thoughts on this, thank you!

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        • Carly Fraser says

          Mar 23, 2019 at 11:37 am

          Fractionated coconut oil doesn’t become rancid, so that might be why they use it in foods?

          Reply
        • Soon Chai says

          Mar 28, 2019 at 9:14 am

          Hi Jay, it’s possible to preserve food with fractionated coconut oil since it’s fully saturated and so food doesn’t turn rancid easily due to oxidation.

          Even virgin coconut oil that is about 90% saturated is strong enough to protect food against oxidative damage. I left my food cooked with virgin coconut oil at room temperature for several hours before and it still tasted as good as just cooked, except that it was no longer warm. Food cooked with other vegetable oils turn rancid rather easily, even in the fridge.

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          • Jay says

            May 20, 2019 at 9:36 am

            Wow, thank you so much!
            I don’t have access to fractionated coconut oil, but I’ll give the virgin coconut oil a try.

          • Soon Chai says

            May 30, 2019 at 9:42 am

            You’re welcome, Jay. 😉

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