Re: [Goanet] Ref The Goodness of Coconut Water

[Roland Francis]

Right on Freddy.

I and my entire family are very fond of tender coconuts and coconut
water. Every weekend I go to the local Chinese mega fish and grocery
store and buy half a dozen tender coconuts at a dollar and a half
apiece. I then take them home, and with a chopper neatly de-husk them.
Then with a sharp pointed knife I poke the eye and let the water into
a glass. We get 9 glasses of water from those 6 coconuts.

I then neatly crack them in half, scoop the flesh and we all have a
hearty Saturday mid-morning snack. What is left I do ditto on a Sunday
morning and thus fortified, I get ready to fall asleep at the pastor's
or priest's service or mass (like a true liberal I alternate between
an evangelical church and a catholic one.

The tender coconuts one gets here are much better than the ones you
get in Goa, even compared to those in my aunt's coconut plantations in
Benaulim which I am told are much sought after in that part of Goa for
their unblemished taste. In Bombay selling tender coconuts has been a
Keralite monopoly for as long as I can remember. However unlike the
ones I buy in Toronto which have much water as well as good meat, in
Bombay you are asked "malai ya paani?" (flesh or water). Opt for one
and you get none of the other. The last time I was there in Sept 2007,
I paid 15 rupees for one. When I left Bombay in '76, it was 50 paise.
No too much of an inflationary adjustment for for the intervening 32
years. That I suppose is due to the coconut tree hybrids that made
their appearance and lowered the price.

Now tell me Freddy, is the flesh of the coconut as nutritious as the
water or is it bad for health as my wife is constantly telling me.

Regards,
Roland.


On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 7:23 AM, Freddy Fernandes
 wrote:
> Dear Goanetters,
> Came across this article and thought of sharing it with you all, Mother Nature
> in all it's goodness has given us this wonder drink, let us all drink it to
> health, Cheers !

[Goanet] Ref The Goodness of Coconut Water

[Freddy Fernandes]

Dear Goanetters,

 

Came across this article and thought of sharing it with you all, Mother Nature
in all it's goodness has given us this wonder drink, let us all drink it to
health, Cheers !

 

Here is some information about Coconut Water:

 

COCONUT WATER

 

'It's a natural isotonic beverage, with the same level of electrolytic balance
as we have in our blood. It's the fluid of life, so to speak.'

 

During the Pacific War of 1941-45, both sides in the conflict regularly used
coconut water - siphoned directly from the nut - to give emergency plasma
transfusions to wounded soldiers.

 

Most coconut water is still consumed fresh in tropical coastal areas - once
exposed to air, the liquid rapidly loses most of its organoleptic and
nutritional characteristics, and begins to ferment.

 

Coconut Water is More Nutritious than whole milk - Less fat and NO cholesterol!

 

Coconut Water is More Healthy than Orange Juice - Much lower calories

 

Coconut Water is Better than processed baby milk- It contains lauric acid, which
is present in human mother' s milk

 

Coconut water is naturally sterile -- Water permeates though the filtering husk!

 

Coconut water is a universal donor-- Its identical to human blood plasma

 

Coconut Water is a Natural Isotonic Beverage - The same level we have in our
blood.

 

Coconut water has saved lives in 3rd world countries thru Coconut IV.

 

Coconut water is the very stuff of Nature, biologically Pure, full of Natural
Sugars, Salts, and Vitamins to ward off fatigue... and is the next wave of
energy drinks BUT natural!', according to Mortin Satin, Chief of the United
Nation's Food &Agriculture Organization.

 

Coconut water contains more potassium (at about 294 mg) than most sports drinks
(117 mg) and most energy drinks.

 

Coconut water has less sodium (25mg) where sports drinks have around 41mg and
energy drinks have about 200mg!

 

Coconut water has 5mg of Natural Sugars where sports and energy drinks range
from 10-25mg of Altered Sugars.

 

Coconut water is very high in Chloride at 118mg; compared to sports drinks at
about 39mg.

 

Data is based on a 100ml drink

 

Hope you all have a healthy coconut water drink !!!

 

Freddy Agnelo Fernandes


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