Most of the coconut oil comes from mature coconuts. Coming from the equatorial belt, we have alot of 'fun ' with this nuts. We squeeze freshly grated mature coconut kernel to make coconut milk which is used in making thick curry gravy. You can't make the milk out of young green coconut because they are just not 'ripe' enough. Mature coconuts does contains the endosperm, it is not abosbed into the kernel. They are sun dried simply because the sun is free.
Young coconuts are popular for refreshing cocktails (the water part) and thin sweet fresh. You get more bulk with the flesh from mature nuts than the green nuts. True that the green nut's flesh can be expelled easily. But the villagers has all the time in the world and they are quite adapt at expelling flesh from the old nuts with the simple implement that they fashioned from steel. Gerry "F. Marc de Piolenc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 05/22/2001 08:43:37 AM Please respond to biofuel@yahoogroups.com To: Biofuel List <biofuel@yahoogroups.com> cc: (bcc: LEE Gerry/Prin Engr/CSM/ST Group) Subject: [biofuel] Coconut oil Gerry wrote: "Mature coconuts would be required as they have thicker kernel with have more oil after they have been sun dried." The plants I'm looking at are not based on copra (sundried coconut meat), but on fresh nuts. Are you quite sure that mature nuts have more oil? The meat is harder in those I've seen, and it may be a little thicker, but the only difference in the rest of the nut is that the water (liquid endosperm) has been absorbed into the meat. The water contains no oil, so I wonder whether the meat of a mature coconut contains more. Anyway, I can't find anything definite either way in the little literature that I have. The soft meat of a green nut is easier to scour out of the shell and run through the expellers. Marc de Piolenc Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
