Philippine Agriculture Envoy Gives Virgin Coconut oil to Virginia Frontliners

Raising awareness of the beneficial uses of virgin coconut oil and to celebrate National Coconut Day in the United States, the Philippine Embassy’s Office of the Agriculture Attaché, distributed Philippines-sourced Trader Joe’s virgin coconut oil to several pandemic frontline posts. National Coconut Day is celebrated every June 26 in the United States. The Coconut Coalition of the Americas founded National Coconut Day to celebrate the coconut and increase awareness of its benefits.
 
Dr. Josyline C. Javelosa, the Philippine Agriculture Attaché to the United States and the Americas dropped off Philippine VCO gifts for frontline employees at the USPS Fairfax branch and firefighters of the Burke Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department.

VCU Health, a hospital located in Richmond, Virginia’s capital, warmly welcomed the Embassy’s modest gesture to provide Trader Joe’s virgin coconut oil sourced from the Philippines to its personnel. Trader Joe’s is supermarket chain. Personnel of VCU hospital may use the VCO as skin moisturizer to help protect their skin from viruses and bacteria or add this to their coffee for added energy, among other uses. VCO is also suitable for cooking and heats well to high temperatures. 

For thousands of years, coconut has been an essential part of the diet of people living in the tropics. Coconut meat contains about 20% coconut oil. In the Philippines, coconut oil is even being tested for its efficacy to help treat or prevent Covid-19, given the considerable scientific evidence for the antiviral activity of coconut oil, lauric acid (of which coconut oil has a high proportion of) and its derivatives; its general safety; and the absence of a cure for Covid-19.