Coconut Oil

Coconut oil is a pale, semi-solid fat that melts to a clear oil around room temperature. It has a subtle coconut aroma and sets firm when cool, becoming clear and fluid when warm. Cooks use it for sauteing, frying, baking, and confectionery; it is sold as virgin (aromatic) or refined (neutral, higher smoke point).\n\nPressed from dried copra or wet-milled from fresh coconut, coconut oil is traditional in South and Southeast Asia and across the Pacific. Global demand popularized refined, deodorized oils from large-scale copra processing and virgin oils from fresh kernel pressing.