Turn coconut yogurt into slimming dressings

To give dressings and dips extra-rich texture and delicious tangy flavor, Rocco relies on coconut yogurt. “It works the way mayonnaise would in recipes, but it comes with enough health benefits to fill an encyclopedia,” he notes. Indeed, research in the International Journal of Obesity shows that the medium-chain fatty acids in the tropical favorite prod the thyroid to produce more energizing hormones, boosting metabolism by up to 56 percent for three hours.