Is Coconut Milk Healthy? (3 of 4)

High Caloric Content

Sadly not even coconut milk is perfect. We’d mentioned in the intro that it’s known for having a high amount of calories, but we didn’t exactly specify. Well, one cup of coconut milk would add up to 550 calories, which is about a third of what a grown man needs on a daily basis. That means that if you keep using coconut milk on a daily basis and don’t cut calories elsewhere, you’re probably going to start gaining at least a moderate amount of weight.

High-Fat Content

Loads of calories usually only mean one thing and coconut milk is no exception to that rule: high-fat counts. That same 550-calorie cup contains a whopping 40 grams of fat. While some of them – the ones coming from the oil itself – are plant-based and unsaturated fats, there’s also a very big amount of saturated animal-based fats in coconut oil. That means that despite increasing your good cholesterol, it most definitely will also increase your bad one.