Trendy foods come and go, but coconut oil, well, it's stuck around. We have to ask: does it really live up to all the hype?
Now that everyone's obsessed with tossing it in their stir fries, adding it to baked goods, stirring a dollop into their coffee, and slapping it on their hair and skin, we have to ask: does it really live up to all the hype?
"Like any other whole food, coconut oil is not a magic food where you can incorporate it into your lifestyle and radically transform your health," says McKel Hill, MS, RD, founder and author of Nutrition Stripped.
