New Products at TJ's!

Coconut Water and Ghee

I'm pretty much always at Trader Joe's so new products are muchos exciting! So new I had to take photos as none existed online! Two that have caught my eye in the past couple weeks are their newly co-packed coconut water, and ghee. The coconut water comes in a tetra-pac container similar to vita-coco or one and taste wise is much nicer than the Zico, which was previously their only option. Also only has two ingredients coconut water not from concentrate and vitamin C. A delicious quick drink recipe is 1/4 coconut water with 3/4 unsweetened plain coconut milk. Then add just a shake of cardamom and nutmeg. Soooo yummy!

The ghee is right next to the coconut oil and is not organic sadly, but a great option for baking. Sometimes just using coconut oil is hard

because its melting and smoke points are so low you get a lot of spreading in your cookies. Like pancakes. So it's great to have a ghee option. For those who don't know, ghee is clarified butter. Clarified butter is basically the separated out fats, and much like coconut oil, is having a bit of a renaissance. Thanks to some new information about the importance of short to medium chain fatty acids and brain/endocrine function. A far better choice than canola oil for your baking needs. Vegetable oils have long chain fatty acids that oxidize at high temperatures making them unstable. This pretty much undoes all those nice healthy things they were doing for you at room temp. Even olive oil. So ghee and coconut oil are pretty much it for high temps. Keep the organic extra virgin around for cold to room temp purposes like salad dressing. Still great for that. Oh and yeah TJ's has that too :) --I like the Spanish because it has 2g of protein per serving and the others don't have any.

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