WHAT IS A "YOUNG COCONUT"?

i AM NEW TO RAW AND TO EATING ALOT OF PRODUCE IN GENERAL. WHAT IS A YOUNG COCONUT ? AND HOW DO YOU GET THE MILK AND MEAT OUT OF THE COCONUT? CAN ANYONE HELP ME?

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  • Hi and welcome! A young coconut is one that has not hardened and built up its fat store. You can usually find them in asian markets. They are sold husked with a tough, fiberous outer covering in my grocery store. The inside is a rubbery meat that is sweet and low fat.(not at all hard)
    Hope this helps!

  • BluedolfinBluedolfin Raw Newbie

    Anlyzink~ Welcome. There is tons of info on this site about young coconuts. Click on Forums tab. Enter “young coconut” in the search field to read the different posts.

    The 30 Days Raw site has a “how to” video on openning a young coconut. The audio isn’t that great, but the video is good. For other videos (there are quite a variety of them out there) type “young coconut video” in your favorite search engine (like google).

    Happy learning. :)

  • A young coconut is the goddess of nature. Highly nutritious, hydrating, and low in fat.
    Many times what I do to open one is; I take regular knife and skin the pointed top off of it. Once the coconut shell is visiable all around the top I take a much larger knife, set the coconut in the sink then HACK the top of it until it caves in. Next, I’ll pour the water out of it into a cup. Then to get the everso lovely “meat” out of it I place it back in the sink and hack away at the side until I can pry it open. It is aslo recomended not to let too much of the metal touch the coconut water, nor the fleah. Hope that helped and wasn’t confusing!! Good luck!!

  • “It is aslo recomended not to let too much of the metal touch the coconut water, nor the fleah.”

    Why is that?

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