Coconut
In Sanskrit, the coconut palm is known as kalpa vriksha, meaning "tree which gives all that is necessary for living," since nearly all parts of the tree can be used in some manner or another. The coconut fruit has many food uses for its milk, meat, sugar, and oil.

Benefits of Coconut Oil

Nearly 50% of the fatty acid in natural coconut oil is lauric acid, which converts to the fatty acid monolaurin in the body. Lauric acid has adverse effects on a variety of microorganisms including bacteria, yeast, fungi, and enveloped viruses. It destroys the lipid membrane of such enveloped viruses as HIV, measles, Herpes simplex virus.

Coconut oil diet is done by changing your usual cooking oil with refined coconut oil and taking three to three and a half tablespoons of virgin coconut oil as supplement everyday

It is a main component of human breast milk and helps protect children from illness during infancy.Capric acid, which comprises another 7% of coconut oil fat content, also stimulates anti-microbial activity.

 “The research over four decades concerning coconut oil in the diet and heart disease is quite clear: coconut oil has Coconut oil is a “functional food,” defined as a food that “provides a health benefit over and beyond the basic nutrients.

It is an immune-system enhancer.
And because it is such a stable oil (resistant to spoilage) and is heat resistant, it is a healthy oil for cooking.

India is the third largest coconut producing country in the world. Copra and coconut oil are the two major products of the coconut processing industry. Nearly 60% of the totla production of nuts is utilized for food uses and the rest goes for oil etraction.
Inspite of the fact that ur country has the necessry raw material to launch new product lines, minimal pgoress has takenplace in the application of modern technology for ful utilisation of various coconut products such as descicated coconut,coconut cream powder etc.