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Homemade whipped cream is one of the single-best desserts every home chef should learn how to make. Why? It tastes significantly better, is faster, easier, and healthier than store-bought whipped cream. What’s more, it’s easy to make it keto, and even add a secret ingredient that lets you improve your health while eating whipped cream. Really, could it get any better than this Keto Zone Vanilla Whipped Cream?

Here’s how to make it in mere minutes, and why you should include its secret ingredient in your diet every single day.

Keto Zone Vanilla Whipped Cream

Ingredients

  • 8 ounces heavy cream (or coconut cream for dairy free)
  • 1-2 tablespoon stevia or erythritol
  • 1 scoop Vanilla MCT Oil Powder

Instructions

  1. Place a metal bowl and metal mixer arms in the freezer for 5-10 minutes. Once nice and cold, add heavy whipping cream to the bowl.
  2. Mix on high for 2-3 minutes until soft peaks form.
  3. Turn mixer to medium speed. Slowly add MCT oil powder and then sweetener while whipping until stiff peaks form. Taste and adjust sweetener as desired.

Nutrition Info: 113 calories, 12 grams fat, 1 gram net carbs (1 gram carbs, 0 grams fiber), 1 gram protein

6 Reasons to Eat MCT Oil Powder Every Day. Yes, Every Day.

MCT Oil Powder is simply the powdered form of medium-chain triglycerides (MCT).

MCTs are special fats that have shorter carbon chains than most fats in the diet (1). Why does size matter to you?

The size of the fat directly affects its function in the body.

MCT oils are derived and isolated from several natural foods, most often coconut oil. Once isolated, the MCT oil is mixed with a carrier, such as fiber powder, and dried to form MCT Oil Powder.

In fact, there are four types of MCTs found in nature: caproic, caprylic, capric, and lauric acid. Our MCT Oil Powder contains three types of MCTs, excluding lauric (this is an advantage).

Caprylic acid (C8) is the most ketone-producing and possibly the most healthful of all the MCTs. MCT oil is specifically concentrated with C8.

To get the amount of C8 in 1 scoop of MCT Oil Powder, you’d have to eat almost 1/2 cup pure coconut oil!

The shorter the MCT, the quicker and easier the digestion. Even people with poor digestion can reap MCT oil benefits, and everyone can enjoy positive health effects. Here’s how MCT oils’ fatty acids, specifically caprylic acid (C8), affect the body.

Here are specific reasons to make Keto Zone Vanilla Whipped Cream and add it each day:

1. Fat Loss and Healthy Blood Sugars

Amazingly, MCTs can support fat loss, healthy body mass index (BMI), and optimal blood sugars. These all go hand in hand.

And this is great news for overall health since even modest fat loss and weight improvements are associated with improved cholesterol, triglycerides, blood sugars, and inflammation.

First, MCTs can help you eat less because healthy fats improve satiety (2, 3).

Next, MCTs support healthy blood sugars and insulin output, thereby improving health and fat metabolism (4).

In fact, they support healthy blood sugars by:

  • Promoting insulin sensitivity
  • Providing an alternate energy source to carbohydrates
  • Supporting beta-cell health (decline in these cells contributes to diabetes)
  • Promoting fat loss

In one recent study, scientists concluded that MCT oils provided strong benefits to beta cells in both mice and humans. One key to combating diabetes is improving the health of these cells (5).

Additionally, a 2016 animal study showed that MCTs improved both insulin resistance and inflammation (6).

While more human studies are needed, MCT oil powder is a promising supplement to help improve diabetes outcomes.

2. Heart Health Support

Medium-chain triglycerides in MCT oil have been shown to support healthy cholesterol by decreasing LDL cholesterol, decreasing the number of LDL particles, and increasing HDL cholesterol (7, 8).

In one recent study, 17 overweight women were given MCTs for 27 days.  When tested, their LDL cholesterol decreased, HDL increased, cholesterol ratio improved, and plasma glutathione increased (a powerful natural antioxidant). Researchers stated that their cardiovascular risk profile was improved (9).

In another 2018 study, 96 adults consumed butter, coconut oil, or olive oil. When tested, LDL remained unchanged with coconut oil and olive oil. HDL significantly increased with coconut oil. This change improved the cholesterol profile in the coconut oil group (10).

3. Reduced Inflammation Response

Inflammation is at the center of most chronic diseases and is linked to heart disease, diabetes, cognitive degeneration, and more.

MCTs support a reduced inflammation response in the body. For example, a 2014 study enlisted 30 adults with high cholesterol and inflammation consumed MCTs for 30 days. When retested, scientists found significant reductions in LDL, increases in HDL, and reductions in C-reactive protein (a marker for inflammation) (11).

4. Healthy Digestion

Amazingly, MCTs can fight unhealthy yeasts while supporting an increase in healthy bacteria and absorption in the digestive tract (5). Unhealthy yeasts plague many people and cause a myriad of digestive and health issues.

Digestive diseases can affect the body in many ways, including:

  • Poor absorption, stunted growth, vitamin and mineral deficiencies, and low energy
  • Direct digestive symptoms such as constipation, bloated, and cramping
  • Declining digestive tissues with the risk of ulcers, hemorrhoids, decreased healthy bacteria growth, fungus and yeast overgrowth, and diverticular diseases

MCT oil powder eases digestion since bile isn’t needed to digest MCTs. In fact, MCTs go from the intestines directly to the liver, and the body quickly uses them as energy or storage. MCTs can nourish those who can’t digest nutrients well.

In one 2018 study, MCT supplementation decreased intestinal candida overgrowth in preterm infants. The candida decreased during supplementation, then increased again once it was stopped (12).

MCTs support healthy bacteria levels, fat-soluble vitamin absorption, and energy metabolism (13).

5. Brain Health and Focus

When you’re in ketosis, and you consume MCT oil, your body is able to produce increased ketones.

Currently, scientists are studying the effects of ketones, like those from MCTs, in preserving healthy brains and inhibiting degradation from aging (14).

Additionally, researchers have found that ketones are usable fuel for the brain in those with Alzheimer’s disease, similar to young healthy brains (15). In Alzheimer’s disease, there’s an impairment in the use of glucose by the brain. Utilizing ketones in the brain rather than glucose may support memory and brain function (16).

6. Energy and Athletic Performance

If you’re looking for a fuel that increases energy, MCTs are one such fuel. Once delivered to the liver from the intestines, MCTs increase energy output in the mitochondria, which are the energy producers in cells (17).

In addition, athletes typically look for ways to decrease lactate levels. When recreational athletes consumed MCTs in one study, they experienced lower lactate levels during moderate and intense workouts than they did with other fats. This may lead to improved endurance and performance (18).

Other researchers found that MCTs reduce high-temperature exercise performance issues and improve overall performance (19).

Bottom Line

There a many benefits to adding MCT oil to your diet every day. And today, we’ve Vanilla MCT Oil Powder in our Keto Zone Vanilla Whipped Cream to make it easier than ever. Make it, and add it to all your desserts. You won’t be disappointed.

 

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Oftentimes, people make mistakes as they get too busy to make their own foods, feel comfortable enough they stop double-checking their foods, or they simply don’t know better.

Now, with our simple guidance, you will.

Here are the Top 8 Keto Mistakes you might not know you’re making, and easy solutions!

Top 8 Keto Mistakes and Easy Solutions

 

Keto Mistake #1 – The “Ultra-Processed” Keto Diet

Whether you’re following Keto Zone, Paleo, Mediterranean, or even a Vegan diet, you can easily make the mistake of eating ultra-processed foods.

Once a “diet” becomes trendy, food manufacturers from all over will begin to make “products” for this trendy diet, in order to make money.

Some products are great. Most products are not.

Some are slightly processed, and others are ultra-processed. Ultra-processed foods are simply those high in sugars, unhealthy, processed fats, junk “fake” ingredients, and more. They are strongly linked to poor health outcomes (1,2).

Just because a product claims it’s low-carb, doesn’t make it a healthy Keto Zone food.

In fact, with Keto Zone, we urge you to study all the ingredients in any commercial food and look beyond low-carb and high-fat.

For example, the low-carb portion should be naturally low-carb or made with healthy-low carb sweeteners (more below). The high-fat portion should come from healthy fats, and not low-quality, cheap, inflammatory fats, such as soybean oil or hydrogenated oils.

How can you avoid this mistake?

Solution:

  • First, cook as many meals as you can from home.
  • Use and eat foods that are single-ingredient foods, such as eggs, meats, vegetables, and healthy oils like olive oil.
  • When buying commercial food, ignore all marketing on the front of the packaging. Look first at the ingredients, and then at the nutrition label (read guide here).
  • Find more tips here

 

Keto Mistake #2 – Avoiding Fiber

We all need fiber. While we may not actually need quite as much as has been recommended in the past, our guts need fiber-based foods to feed our healthy bacteria (soluble fibers and prebiotics).

You must be proactive to avoid fiber keto mistakes  to ensure you’re getting enough.

When you’ve eliminated many high-carbohydrate foods, such as grains, beans, most fruits, and legumes, you mind yourself low on fiber. However, as you replace low-quality starchy foods such as bread and pasta, with natural Keto Zone foods like inulin, nuts, nut flours, and vegetables, you’ll find your fiber intake increases in quantity and quality ( 3).

Solution:

To get more fiber, eat daily:

  • 3 servings of vegetables (6-10 grams of fiber)
  • ¼ cup nuts or 2 tablespoons nut meal (4 grams fiber)
  • 2 tablespoons of seeds, such as hemp seeds (4 grams fiber)
  • 2 tablespoons chia seeds per day (8 grams fiber)

 

Keto Mistake #3 – Not Researching or Using Supplements

I wish we could get all the nutrients we need with foods alone. I do.

However, the diminishing quality of our soil, processed foods, use of pesticides and antibiotics, and our own digestion ailments can make it tough to consume, digest, and absorb everything we need.

High-quality supplements make up the differences in the nutrients we need, but don’t get in foods.

Solution:

Some important supplements on Keto Zone include:

  • Instant Ketones: In supplemental powder form, these ketones provide a readily available source of ketones. They are especially important when getting into ketosis.
  • Fat-Zyme: If you have trouble digesting fats, this enzyme and nutrient combination supplement can help you feel better and get into the Keto Zone.
  • Magnesium: Magnesium deficiency is common in all adults and can be easily fixed with supplementation.
  • Omega-3s: Krill Oil: is a great source of anti-inflammatory fats and antioxidants for brain, cardiovascular, and overall health.
  • MCT Oil Powder: When increasing fats, it’s important to choose the healthiest fat quality. MCT Oil Powder is an extremely healthy, easy-to-use fat in drinks and more.
  • Thyroid Zone and Hormone Zone: Especially as women age, these supplements can protect bones, help balance estrogens, and fight fatigue.

 

Keto Mistake #4 – Going Low-Carb and Low-Fat

The Keto Zone Diet is all about minimal carbs, and large amounts of fat. Unfortunately, people make many keto mistakes with fat intake.

Your body needs large amounts of healthy fats to provide the substrates for ketones and to keep your body healthy.

High-quality fats are needed, not optional.

A huge health-wrecking mistake is to minimize carbs and fats.

When you do this, you won’t get the health benefits of healthy fats, you will go too low in calories, which can affect metabolism, and will likely be overly-hungry.

Solution:

  • Aim for 75% or more calories from fats in your diet and about 20-30 grams net carbs each day.
  • If eating around 1,500 calories per day, then consume just 30 or so grams of carbs (120 calories), 125 grams of fat, and about 64 grams of protein.

As you can see, fats are important.

One way to add fat is to use “fat bombs” as snacks.

 

Keto Mistake #5 – Choosing Inflammatory Fats

Not all fats are created equal. Some are highly inflammatory, while some are healthy. Choose the latter.

Sure, you can eat a high-fat diet loaded with processed fats, trans-fats, and inflammatory fats. But, what good would this be?

Use the fats in your diet to promote health in addition to entering the Keto Zone.

Solution:

Avoid:

  • High omega-6 fats in processed foods such as soybean oil, corn oil, and vegetable oil.
  • Trans-fats from hydrogenated fat sources

Eat:

  • Omega-3 fats from fish, krill, and other seafood
  • Healthy omega-9 fats from nuts, avocados, and olive oil
  • MCT oils from MCT Oil Powder and coconut oil
  • Fats from high-quality animal sources such as eggs, free-range livestock, and wild sources

 

Keto Mistake #6 – Eating Foods Loaded with Saccharin, Aspartame, and Sucralose

When eating low-carb, you’ll find all sorts of foods and recipes with aspartame, saccharin, and sucralose. These are not the best ingredients for your health.

Why?

For one, they disrupt the healthy bacteria in the gut (4). Healthy gut bacteria is a cornerstone of overall health, and disruptions can induce hormone imbalances, digestive issues, inflammation, food intolerances, and more.

Additionally, aspartame and saccharin have had a sketchy history with cancer risk, and should be avoided.

Solution:

Find foods that use higher-quality, natural sugar substitutes. These include stevia, xylitol, and erythritol.

 

Keto Mistake #7 – Over-Fasting

Intermittent fasting is a great, health-promoting tool on Keto Zone.

However, some people make the mistake of fasting too much; usually by combining different fasting styles.

If you use the 5:2 method, fast for 2 days per week, and then also use the 16:8 method, fasting 16 hours per day, and then add in 2 days that are restricted to 500 calories each (total), you’re likely going to be hungry.

Hunger itself is not always a problem, but too much can lead to binges, disrupted sleep, and more.

Solution:

  • When intermittent fasting, choose just one method and do it well.

If you find yourself so hungry that you’re having a hard time falling asleep or staying asleep, make sure you’re not combining fasting styles, and that you’re eating enough during your eating window (add more fats if needed).

 

Keto Mistake #8 – Thinking Keto Zone is a Quick Fix

If you find that the Internet is overflowing with “diet success stories” that seem too good to be true, remember that they probably are.

Now, Keto Zone usually delivers quicker and better results than any other diet.

However, it’s still a marathon, not a sprint.

Getting into and staying in ketosis, requires study, work, and commitment. While it’s simple, it’s not necessarily easy day in and day out.

Solution:

  • Look at the Keto Zone as a lifestyle, for the rest of your life.
  • Focus on gaining health, energy, awareness, and overall wellness rather than just weight loss.

As long as you’re making progress, keep going! Everyone’s different, and everyone’s weight loss story is their own. Don’t compare, and stay positive.

 

Bottom Line

Keto Zone is extremely effective and healthy. However, if it’s not followed as directed, mistakes can be made. Make sure to these Top 8 Keto Mistakes.

 

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