Coconut
September is Coconut Month here at Blue Mountain Organics! We want to highlight one of the best-tasting and most nutritious super foods on the planet: What’s all the fuss about coconut? Coconut (Cocos nucifera) belongs to the palm family (Arecaceae), so, unsurprisingly, it’s grown in the tropics and subtropics. The name coconut comes from 16 th -century Portuguese sailors who thought the three small holes on the coconut shell resembled a face: "coco" means "grinning face, grin, or grimace." Coconuts are not nuts, but rather single-seed drupe fruits (like peaches). Almost all parts of the coconut can be used: the water, milk, flesh, sugar and oil. Palm trees bear coconuts up to 13 times a year, and a mature tree can produce 60-180 coconuts per harvest. Coconut attains superfood status because of its healthy fats. Over 90% of the fat in coconut oil is healthy saturated fat, and over 60% is made up of 3 medium-chain fatty acids (MCFAs): C