oiling a new cutting board: coconut oil?

9 Reasons to Use Coconut Oil Daily(3 of these are shocking)
https://tinyurl.com/y76xxges

My Biochemistry instructor was also a researcher at UCSD. He shuddered at the thought of mineral oil. He told us explicitly, "Don't use mineral oil for anything. Ever. Don't put it on your skin, oil cutting boards etc. because when we want give the lab animals cancer, we inject them with mineral oil." Personally, I have extrapolated that out to extend as well to petroleum based product.

Thanks everyone, I went with walnut oil. Board looks beautiful. In future I may add a beeswax coating.

A lengthy discussion on Food Pickle a few years back:
https://food52.com/hotline/4593-what-is-food-grade-mineral-oil-and-where-does-one-buy-it-i-recently-bought-a-wooden-cutting-board

I use coconut oil on my Boo's tables.

Coconut oil is perfect for oiling new boards, I always use the refined ones, as dinner at ten does. Unrefined is beautiful but awfully expensive.

Coconut oil is beneficial in so many ways. I use it on my wooden carving boards.

I'm also not excited about spreading a petroleum product on my cooking implements. I've been using a refined coconut oil for my wood boards and utensils and it's worked quite well.

Heidi Swanson also posted instructions for a coconut oil (she used unrefined, so I guess that's ok too) and beeswax mixture for oiling cutting boards and spoons here:
http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/spoon-butter-recipe.html

Joyce Chen sent me a bottle of food safe mineral oil (don't know if they all are) to use on a bamboo cutting board that I bought from her. I asked my kitchen guru at Sur La Table and she said it's the best oil to use on all cutting boards and wooden spatulas etc. Why don't you want to use mineral oil? My coconut oil is unrefined, but I think I'd use it if I didn't have the mineral oil. I wash my cutting boards a lot and re-oil them every month or so.

You can use coconut, almond, or walnut oil. I'd personally go with the coconut (or the mineral oil).