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Usually between 3 to 6 capsules per day, or about 1/3 of a tablespoon. Some of these bottles of softgel coconut oil capsules are retailing for $20.00 or $30.00 a bottle. If you do the math, you will see that this is really benefiting only the companies selling them.
Nausea and vomiting seem to be common among those who take several daily tablespoons of coconut oil, the recommended medicinal dose among promoters [source: Coconut Connections]. Just one tablespoon of coconut oil has more than 13 grams of fat. Four tablespoons will give you almost the entire U.S. recommended maximum daily intake of fat. And coconut oil has the highest saturated fat of any oil -- 10 times the saturated fat of olive oil, for example.