Photo by jmspool via flickr.com
Had a report from my raw guru friend that “Best” coconuts found in Asian Food stores are the only brand of young coconut that is not irradiated for the U.S. market.
We took an ax, set the coconut on a newspaper on the garage floor and voila, painless delicious sweet milk from the young coconut and its gelatinous “meat” scooped out with a spoon.
A hatchet, an axe, a meat cleaver, a machete will all do the trick with four chops to the top of the cone making a square around it. It can sound like a really bizarre way to get a treat, yet how delicious and exotic it is! Fun, even simple once you are used to it and extremely healthy.
When you find the young coconut in the store it is all white (not a hairy brown thing), young coconuts look like the ones in the picture below. “Old” coconuts are hairy and brown, the milk is sour and the “meat” dry and sometimes rotten, that is a very different beast and I really don’t care for them.
Great blog! These are my favorite coconuts by far. Keep up the good work!
As an American, I have only seen “old” coconuts before. If these can be found in any Asian food store, I am on my way so i can try what a coconut should taste like!
just bought these today at an asian market for $1.50 each. hurray.
One thing all of those who enjoy the shaved young coconuts should be aware of is that they are DEFINITELY treated with some type of chemical (most likely formaldehyde) to maintain their freshness and white appearance. I don’t know for sure what it is they use but until I get an accurate response from one of the distributors I am discontinuing them from my diet. There is NO WAY these coconuts can retain their white husk color without chemical treatment. If you take a young green coconut off of a tree and cut into it it will discolor to a dark brown within 15 minutes. If you have gotten hooked on young coconuts and bought enough of them, eventually you get one that tastes like formaldehyde and has turned pink in color. An untreated coconuts’ water will never turn pink or rose colored no matter how long it is off of the tree. If you search on this topic you eventually come across a study done by someone who had a lab analyze some coconut water for formaldehyde and the tests came up a negative. Keep these thoughts in mind though 1.) they may not use formaldehyde to treat the coconuts 2.) whatever they use to treat them in all cases does not permeate the shell. I have been consuming these pretty heavily for about a 1 1/2 years and for every 12 coconuts I buy there are at least 2 where the water has turned rose colored and tastes like chemical crap. If you search about rose or pinkish coconut water you will get alot of replies saying it is OK to drink it and that it is a natural occurrence. This is bullshit too. Consumers need an honest answer on this from a coconut supplier.
sprouts.. 1.50. get about 16 ounces of water. awesome taste
megustaria esportar el coco
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