Virgin coconut oil (VCO) is growing in popularity as functional
food oil and the public awareness of it is increasing. It is expected
that VCO will experience a dramatic growth in the market. The
introduction of VCO has open up new research that basically
reveals new things besides what has already been known on
commercial coconut oil. This paper mainly discusses on some
of the findings associated with VCO up to date. Physicochemical
properties, antioxidant activity, clinical and authentication
studies of VCO were some of the topics addressed in this review.