young coconuts

[Guest guest]

Hi Donna,

They are white because the outer green hull has been ground off. You

only eat the meat and milk.

Best Wishes!

Pete

> Thanks Pete, Unfortunately I live in the stick and I don't think

Bob's Fruit Stand carries them. Smile. But if I ever get to

a city I will look for some. They sound heavenly. Are they green

and do you use the whole thing?

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> Donna

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> Hi Donna,

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> Young coconuts are sooo delicious. You can get them at asian

food

> markets. They are cheap if you buy a case of nine. They are

nothing

> like a hard brown coconut at the supermarket. The milk is

really

> sweet. I blend the milk with the meat to make a smoothie and

its

> heaven.

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> Take Care!

> Pete

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[Guest guest]

and Meagan, Hello !

Concern about the need to understand more about the oil contents of green tender

young coconuts (8-month old developing fruit/nut, called 'buko' in the

Philippines) versus the mature, 12 month old nuts, I wish to share to all the

info I got from a reference book (Phil. Coconut Authority 1979). Reported by

Belleza and Sierra (1976), green tender nuts contains an average of 25% coconut

oil (only 35% of mature nuts which has 70 % coconut oil (dry basis). So,

mature bunch of nuts (12-month old) of coconut trees normally has at least 2.5

times more coconut oil compared with the green nuts. And, I believe this

relationship holds true with the lauric fatty acids, coconut is now well known

for. The more oil the higher the content of medium chain saturated C-12 lauric

fatty acids. Logical, is it ?

You know, it takes 12 months for a pollinated/fertilized coconut female flowers

in each bunch of nuts to develop into mature nuts; for an adult fruit-bearing

coconut tree, there are 12-17 bunches harvest annually or at least one bunch

harvested every month.

Thanks,

Sev Magat

Wilkins <montemomma2002@...> wrote:

The immature green coconut is not the same as a mature coconut in the amount of

oil in it.It has much less oil but it does have alot of other health benefits .

Dr Magat posted a link last week about the benefits of the young coconut

juice.It iss much different from what is called coconut milk which is made from

a mature coconut meat.

IN NC

Maegan Crandall <visualworlds@...> wrote:

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I found an asian food mart that supplies young coconuts.

Oh I also rubbed a bunch of coconut oil today into my scalp/hair and now

it is so soft and shiny and my scalp feels great! :-)

-Maegan

[Guest guest]

What does a young coconut taste like that has soft meat or a gel inside?

Jeanne

[Guest guest]

Fresh coconut, whether young or in the gel stage has a lighter taste than the

dried copra. The main difference I find between the gel and the young meat is

the mouth feel, not so much the taste, although some one with a more sensitive

palate would probably disagree. The gel feels in the mouth like a jelly or

jello, it's tender. And the young meat is more solid to rubber to even fibery

depending on how mature the particular coconut you have is.

jeanne_simons@... wrote: What does a young coconut taste like that has

soft meat or a gel inside?

Jeanne

[Guest guest]

Like Heaven.

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> What does a young coconut taste like that has soft

> meat or a gel inside?

> Jeanne

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