Coconut milk contains a lot of different substances, including fat, vitamin and also some minerals. In fact, some people simply assume that such white creamy liquid is a major source of fat which can add extra pounds to their bodyweight. So, some people start to search the low fat coconut milk and use such product for cooking some meals, making some cakes and some other purposes.
Definitely, consuming coconut milk with lower amount of fat is hopefully able to reduce the risks of obesity due to the accumulated fats inside the body. In this case, the organic coconut milk provides relatively lower fat than the common products on the market. The two tablespoons of coconut juice/milk provides people with (only) 26 calories, 1.2 g fat and also the 5.4 grams of dietary fiber.
The contents of fat vary from one brand to the others, although the amount is actually almost the same (not much different). If you live in America, you can find some organic brands such as Swanson Organic , Aloha Nu , Island Harvest and some other examples. You can search the web and read the nutrition facts carefully. Typically, people can easily recognize the low fat products from the packaging.
The Taste
Apart from the benefits of low fat coconut milk, there are the downsides too. One of the most popular is about the taste. It can be still called delicious, but the coconut-y flavour is less intense than the common coconut juice. For such reasons, people who concern about the delicious taste of foods and cakes they want to cook/bake don’t want to include less fatty coconut milk into their recipes.
If you compare the nutrients of coconut milk with other non-dairy milk, you will find coconut has relatively low calorie, but it contains almost the same amount of fats with the other plant milks. Unfortunately, the fat is saturated and it can cause some possible side effects such as infertility (the worst one). That’s why, it is better to start from now to avoid using too much coconut milk in foods and beverages.
Infertility can happen because of many factors, and the wrong lifestyle can contribute up to 70%. Lifestyle here definitely refers to the wrong foods intake and the lack of attention toward the importance of proper food combination to live a healthy life. The threat of infertility and obesity is not a trivial thing which people can ignore; hence adding coconut milk into the foods/beverages should be followed by good understanding about the right amount of consumption.
Finding low fat coconut milk on the market is actually easy and it is probably much easier than finding the non fat ones. Low fat label is good enough to make you sure to take such product without feeling worry about excessive saturated fats which can cause various detrimental effects. If you cannot find such product on local supermarket, you can change it by using another alternative by mixing coconut extract with non fat milk. However, the taste is absolutely poor.
In this case, mixing non fat milk with coconut extract is not really recommended except you have searched the low fat coconut milk on the market but get nothing. Some people who have tried mixing the two liquids above into their cakes find that their cakes are edible but they miss something in their cake. In some countries, the low fat coconut juice/milk is used to make curries, ice creams, cookies, some desserts and the other foods where coconut milk is essential indeed. What about you?