Coconut Milk Nutrition Facts

Cow milk, goat milk, and soy milk has popular this day. Now, people also like coconut milk. This is because coconut milk has good nutrition just like other milks. Every part of Coconut tree has a lot of function. Start from its leaf until its root has useful function. That’s why coconut spout used as scout symbol. That’s because coconut has too much function. Coconut can prevent our body from internal and external disease. Coconut milk also can build our immune system just like other kinds of milk. Coconut milk is liquid which is extracted from coconut. The color is white and the milk is oily because it has a lot of oil and the taste is sweet. You can’t mix the coconut milk and coconut water.

Let’s discuss about Coconut milk nutrition facts. What will you get if you drink coconut milk? Coconut milk is perfect beverage to loss weight. Saturated fat inside the coconut milk consists of short and middle chain fatty acid will be changed into energy inside the body. Even though coconut milk has too much saturated fat, it can stabilize your weight.

There are some antioxidants that you can find inside the coconut milk. Antioxidant helps your body to avoid dangerous free radical which can degenerate your body cells. Because of that, coconut milk can prevent you from cancer, eyes problem, bone problem, and premature aging. Coconut milk can be your easy and cheap alternative if you are not tolerant towards lactose and if you have animal milk allergic.

Coconut milk contains lauric acid which has anti-bacterial, anti-microbial, anti fungal and anti-virus. Thus, coconut milk can help strengthen the immune system by getting rid of stomach bacteria, flu, colds, sore throats, boils and various diseases. Coconut milk is also good for our heart. Coconut milk contains lauric acid which helps us to keep the artery clean and keep hearts healthy. And although the coconut milk contains saturated fat, the lauric acid and some acids in coconut milk makes it good against heart disease and atherosclerosis.

Coconut milk also can help your digestion system. Coconut milk contains of a lot of useful substance for stomach to digest the meals properly. If you drink coconut milk, bad bacteria inside your stomach will be killed by anti-bacteria substance of coconut milk. If it is viewed from nutrition point, a cup of coconut milk contains the following nutrition as shown in the nutrition table.

Nutrition	Capacity
Calorie	552 cal
Total fat	57,2 gram
Cholesterol	0 mg
Sodium	36 mg
Total carbohydrate	13,3 gram
Protein	5,5 gram
Vitamin C	11 %
Calcium	4%
Iron	22%

You can also use coconut milk to care your hair and skin. There are many cosmetic company use coconut milk to make a shampoo and other beauty product. If your skin is burnt by sunlight, you can use coconut milk to cure your skin. You can use coconut milk while take a bath. You can also smear the coconut milk on your skin and leave it one night. It will be able to get rid the aching and give the natural moisture to your skin.