Coconut butter is finely ground coconut, on the analogy of peanut or almond butter. As such it has everything the whole coconut does. Coconut milk would be a whole food if you drank the milk and ate the stuff you strained out.
My personal take - and this is just the way my appetite works - if I can't chew it, it's not food. I use unstrained coconut milk made from coconut butter and water in puddings and porridges, but I don't drink it because I find it much less satisfying than something solid.
Andrea
--- On Thu, 1/21/10, Lynnet Bannion <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Lynnet Bannion <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Protein drinks
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Thursday, January 21, 2010, 10:35 AM
> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:25:08 -0700,
> Andrea Hughett <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>
> > YMMV - I consider both coconut milk and coconut oil to
> be separated foods, and prefer to use the whole coconut,
> often in the form of coconut butter.
> Isn't coconut butter also a separated food? If you
> cracked that coconut, what
> you'd have is coconut water and fresh coconut, not coconut
> butter. If you put
> the fresh coconut meat in the blender and added water, then
> strained, you would get coconut milk. Better than any
> in a can too.
>
> I have a hard time seeing protein powders as paleo.
> Whey is from dairy--not paleo.
> Soy from legumes, rice protein from grains. And egg protein
> is a very highly processed
> form of egg. Why not just eat eggs? IMHO the closer
> we come to eating one-ingredient non-industrial foods,
> (leaving out the grain and dairy) the healthier we'll be.
>
> Lynnet
>
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