Calories in Coconut Oil
When
it comes to the calories in coconut oil, coconut oil is considered by
some people to be one of the healthy oils, but too much of a good thing
will still make you gain weight. An average of 1 tablespoon a
day should be enough. If you are getting your fats and oils
from
other sources you will not need this much.
To
summarize:
1 tablespoon of coconut oil has 117 calories (1.25
in calorie cash™)
1 teaspoon has coconut oil has 39 calories
(0.50 in calorie cash™)
1 cup of coconut oil has 1879 calories
(18.75 in calorie cash™)
For many people
this (1 cups worth) is a whole days worth of calories!
| Coconut oil |
| |
| tbsp | cup |
tsp |
|
| 100.0g | 13.6g | 218g |
4.5g |
| Water | g |
0 | 0 |
0 | 0 |
| Energy | kcal | 862 | 117 | 1879 | 39 |
| Protein | g |
0 | 0 |
0 | 0 |
| Total lipid (fat) | g |
100 | 13.6 |
218 | 4.5 |
| Carbohydrate, by difference |
g |
0 | 0 |
0 | 0 |
| Fiber, total dietary |
g |
0 | 0 |
0 | 0 |
| Sugars, total | g |
0 | 0 |
0 | 0 |
| Minerals | | | | | |
| Calcium, Ca | mg |
0 | 0 |
0 | 0 |
| Iron, Fe | mg |
0.04 | 0.01 |
0.09 | 0 |
| Magnesium, Mg | mg |
0 | 0 |
0 | 0 |
| Phosphorus, P | mg |
0 | 0 |
0 | 0 |
| Potassium, K | mg |
0 | 0 |
0 | 0 |
| Sodium, Na | mg |
0 | 0 |
0 | 0 |
| Zinc, Zn | mg |
0 | 0 |
0 | 0 |
| Vitamins | | | | | |
| Vitamin C, total ascorbic acid |
mg |
0 | 0 |
0 | 0 |
| Thiamin | mg |
0 | 0 |
0 | 0 |
| Riboflavin | mg |
0 | 0 |
0 | 0 |
| Niacin | mg |
0 | 0 |
0 | 0 |
| Vitamin B-6 | mg |
0 | 0 |
0 | 0 |
| Folate, DFE | mcg_DFE |
0 | 0 |
0 | 0 |
| Vitamin B-12 | µg |
0 | 0 |
0 | 0 |
| Vitamin A, RAE | mcg_RAE |
0 | 0 |
0 | 0 |
| Vitamin A, IU | IU |
0 | 0 |
0 | 0 |
| Vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol) |
mg |
0.09 | 0.01 |
0.2 | 0 |
| Vitamin D (D2 + D3) |
µg |
0 | 0 |
0 | 0 |
| Vitamin D | IU |
0 | 0 |
0 | 0 |
| Vitamin K (phylloquinone) |
µg |
0.5 | 0.1 |
1.1 | 0 |
| Lipids | | | | | |
| Fatty acids, total saturated |
g |
86.5 | 11.764 | 188.57 |
3.892 |
| Fatty acids, total
monounsaturated | g | 5.8 | 0.789 | 12.644 |
0.261 |
| Fatty acids, total
polyunsaturated | g | 1.8 | 0.245 |
3.924 |
0.081 |
| Cholesterol | mg |
0 | 0 |
0 | 0 |
| Other | | | | | |
| Caffeine | mg |
0 | 0 |
0 | 0 |
One thing you will
notice about this chart is that there are little vitamins and minerals
left after processing the oil. Why not eat coconut and get some oil
that way. the raw coconut will have more nutrition.