Coconut ready for Planting
A Large, round, hard shelled nut with a white pulp and hollow interior. Green coconuts give you Water, young jelly. Dried coconut yield coconut milk - which is grated coconut and mix with water and strained is use in many dishes like rice and peas and all sorts of other dishes. Coconuts are also heavily used in desserts, beverages. Oil is extracted from the nuts and has a wide range of uses.
Coconut ready for Planting
Young Coconut Ideal for obtaining Coconut water
Coconuts are eaten in different stages . When they are young and green, the clear juice inside some varieties is sweet and refreshing, sometimes naturally fragrant with a subtle hint of flowers. Not only is it a good thirst quencher, the juice is also good for reducing heat in the body
Young Coconuts are sold still in the husk. Young coconuts are valued for their juice, but the coconut meat inside, which is often sweeter than that of the mature coconut, is completely edible and softer than a mature coconut. The very young coconut meat is almost jelly like and can be eaten with a spoon.
Coconut Meat ( Coconut Jelly )
Mature Coconut in the husk ( Dry Coconut )
A fully mature coconut will be dark brown in color. Those with a lighter brown have not yet reached their full ripeness but will still taste quite good. A mature coconut, unopened, can be stored at room temperature for about three or four months.The mature coconut contains a sweet thick white flesh from which coconut milk is extracted by mixing the grated or shredded meat of a mature coconut with water and then squeezing out the juice
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Grated Coconut For obtaining Coconut milk
Coconut Drop
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Grater Cake
Coconut Oil The dried meat of the coconut is called Copra. Oil is pressed from Copra. After pressing out all the edible oil the leftover meat and cake makes good cattle feed. It's good because it contains protein, sugar, and vitamins. The major uses for the oil of the coconut is soaps and margarine. The dried meat can be used in candies, cake, cookies, and pies. Dried coconut can keep at room temperature for several months.