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Coconut butter or coco butter is coconut oil in solid form. The oil of the coconut turns liquid to solid and vice versa depending on the surrounding temperature.
You can purchase a container of liquid transparent coconut oil from the store, take it home, and wake up to a hard, white solid.
76 Degree Melting Point
Coconut oil has a high "melting point." From a clear liquid, it changes into a dense, snowy solid at temperatures beneath 24 degrees Celsius (76 degrees Fahrenheit). Hence, the term 76 degree coconut oil. This transformation is perfectly normal.
During summer time, you can take out a solid cube of butter out of the refrigerator and watch it slowly melt, as they say, like butter. Same thing.
Here in tropical Philippines, coconut oil generally stays liquid. If you live in a cool climate, all you have to do to liquefy hardened coconut oil is dip the container in hot water for a couple of minutes or so. It melts rather quickly.
Unchanging Health Benefits
But why melt it if you can scoop the oil out with a spoon or a knife. It’s probably less messy. It's your choice. One thing is for sure though. Coconut oil or butter is loaded with special and virtually rare fat molecules called medium chain fatty acids (MCFA).
These unique saturated fatty acids terminate a long list of viruses, bacteria, fungi and other harmful microorganisms. Even the highly-defiant AIDS and SARS viruses succumb to the forceful antimicrobial punch of MCFAs. So deadly to germs, yet so gentle to humans. A rare combination!
Liquid or solid? It's all up to you...
Different states of matter, Same supreme health benefits!
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