— Alice Jenkins

So on a whole food plant-based diet, um, that's a little, um, it's a little outside the spectrum of what you would typically use. Now, of course, it's your diet, so it can you use it, that's up up to you. It's a personal choice. Now. There's refined and unrefined coconut oil now refined is basically, um, well let's start with unrefined. Unrefined is like basically scooping out the inside of the, um, you know, the coconut squeezing out, um, everything out of it. Um, and having that as your oil and like does have a lot of oil in it, but it does actually have a little bit of fiber to it as well too. The refined goes through a much bigger process where there are things that are added to it to be able to make it into more of an oil. Uh, then at that process when you're getting to refined coconut oil, you're kind of in the same lane of just using any other oil. It's still 120 calories per tablespoon, um, and is processed at that point. So a refined coconut oil is not something you would use in a whole food plant-based diet. There are a lot of people on whole food plant-based diet that would say that, um, unrefined coconut oil is also a no-no, but that's a personal preference if I have to say. Um, you know, because it doesn't go through a whole lot of processing, um, to be able to make the, uh, unrefined as well.