How do they get the carbs out of cold pressed oils?

(M) #1

I am just wondering how they can make cold pressed oils like coconut and avocado and get the carbs out of them completely.

(KCKO, KCFO 🥥) #2

From what I have read, it is the fiber that contains the small amount of carbs that coconuts have. So extracting the oil would not include any fiber material, so the carbs would not be present. Probably the same for avocado oil.

If anyone one else knows more about this it is would good to know.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #3

It all depends on how you look at it. Squeeze a bunch of olives and the oil comes out. The oil is the fatty part of the olive; the carbs are what’s left behind. You could think of it as removing the carby part of the olive from the oil, or removing the fatty oil from the rest of the olive. The oil is all fats.

So the act of straining out the pulp is what strains out the carbs.

(Jennifer M Worth) #4

My body loves coconut oil and avocado oil. Sometimes I think “where have these been all my life?”
Not remotely what you asked but I’m on a roll this mornings. :wink:

(M) #5

but with coconut I would thing the sugar would be in the juice and get into the mixture of fat, same with avocado but to a lesser extent

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #6

The water and the fat don’t mix. So if you skim off the fat, you don’t get the water (juice).

But the solution is simple: look at the nutrition panel on the product, together with the list of ingredients. If there is sugar in the ingredients, don’t buy it, even if the nutrition panel says 0 g per serving (because they have probably manipulated the serving size).

#7

Yeah if you make coconut milk, it’s very sweet. But fat is 100% fat and 0% carbs, inevitably :wink:
I can even make some not perfect but close so quite low-carb coconut oil from coconut, I just need to cool my coconut milk and the fat separates from the water.