Unsweetened coconut oil

Foamroller

Fellow low carb'ers. I bought the wrong coconut oil which is sickly sweet
Need specific product recommendation for coconut oil I can use frying savory foods = unsweetened, if I understood it right.

Tired of endless circling around on iHerb. Too confusing for my hamster brain right now
If you have tips on other sites that ship to Europe, I'd be happy to get alternative suggestions too.
Ty, in advance

deansdad101

Foamroller wrote: »

Fellow low carb'ers. I bought the wrong coconut oil which is sickly sweet
Need specific product recommendation for coconut oil I can use frying savory foods = unsweetened, if I understood it right.

Tired of endless circling around on iHerb. Too confusing for my hamster brain right now
If you have tips on other sites that ship to Europe, I'd be happy to get alternative suggestions too.
Ty, in advance

Foam;

Our go to;
tinyurl.com/qzl4j3b

We usually order more than one (to get free ship).
Don't know how familiar you are with Azon but watch pricing.

It's not "cheaper" to order the 3 pack, if ordering 3 pick the single and then change quantity from 1 to 3 in cart. (Foolish, I know, but hey a buck is a buck).

Also, they have an auto rebuy thing that sometimes comes up as default (Right side of screen under the go to cart thing).
Fine if you want it (saves a buck or so, but sends every x days) but if you don't, be sure to uncheck).

Quality is great, we use it every day.

Not an "alternative", but rather an "addition"

tinyurl.com/ns2uv6w

We order them both.
First Lady prefers coconut oil in coffee,
I'm a MCT guy

I prefer to shop "local" but these prices (delivered) are close to 1/2 of the locals and we're on "fixed" income (recently retired) so......

Dragonwolf

Foamroller wrote: »

Fellow low carb'ers. I bought the wrong coconut oil which is sickly sweet
Need specific product recommendation for coconut oil I can use frying savory foods = unsweetened, if I understood it right.

Tired of endless circling around on iHerb. Too confusing for my hamster brain right now
If you have tips on other sites that ship to Europe, I'd be happy to get alternative suggestions too.
Ty, in advance

What brand are you buying that's sweetened? I have seriously never seen sweetened any fat, before.

That said, virgin coconut oil does naturally have a sort of "sweet" taste to it, but that comes naturally from the properties of the coconut, and has nothing to do with being "sweetened" in any way. You can get refined coconut oil, which doesn't have that sweet/coconutty taste to it, but it also reduces the beneficial properties of virgin coconut oil (if that matters to you).

Personally, if you don't want the flavor of coconut, I suggest trying other fats. Ghee has a great nutty flavor that works well for more savory dishes, and can hold up nearly as well to heating as coconut oil, since it's just the butterfat and doesn't have the protein and sugar content of regular butter. There's also lard/bacon grease, tallow, and schmaltz you could use, too (rendering animal fat is easy, albeit time consuming, so if you can get your hands on the raw fat from a butcher or farmer, it's a very cost-effective way to get a good source of animal fat).

Foamroller

@dragonwolf. Ty for great advice! Forgive a noob for bad semantics That's the word the shopkeeper in my native language used. "unsweetened". Of course it's NOT added any sweet taste. The one I bought is virgin coconut oil. The health food stores here are charging extortionist prices. Don't quite remember how much it was, but it was somewhere around 42 USD for a jar of 500 ml type Cocosa.

I think coconut flavour isn't meshing well with things like chicken or prawn sechuan stir fry, for my palate. Probably works better with more thai style dishes.

I'll look into ghee and lard. Maybe the only butcher I know of sell lard.

@deansdad. Unfortunately many sellers in Amazon marketplace don't bother shipping to my country So have to use creative middleservices that forward post for those items. But the customs are very strict, especially about food products, so it very time consuming to first research if it goes through, then order etc. So I only do it for items I need badly.

USA is a shopping heaven, cause the variety and selections are just crazy compared to here. I live in a small country, so smaller market for any goods. We do have very good tap water and relatively fresh air though, so everything has it's cost and benefits, I guess.

Ty both of you for great pointers

fludderbye

are you getting unrefined or refined coconut oil

i found that the refined doesnt have the flavor of coconut like the unrefined has