Coconut question..

[Glaucus]

The green ones are unripe and full of coconut milk.
The brown wooden, hairy ones are ripe and full of flesh with little milk.

Coconut milk is also a laxative and In a survival situation you shouldn't drink more than 3 a day. Otherwise you will be wasting everything out the other end.

 

[FrostedNipple]

Is it actually milk?

 

[Nix]

Everybody!

Well... I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts! do be do do.

 

[uber soldat]

Everybody!

Well... I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts! do be do do.

Was waiting for someone to say that lol

 

[Bakedgoods]

How do you know it isn't the cereal?

Because milk can give you spots, fact

 

[Zogger]

from wikipedia:

When the coconut fruit is still green the husk is very hard, but green coconuts only fall if they have been attacked by moulds, etc. By the time the coconut naturally falls, the husk has become brown, the coir has become drier and softer, and the coconut is less likely to cause damage when it drops.

green coconuts, don't look like they're covered by leaves to me

 

[Nitefly]

coconuts are one of those vegetables that just aren't worth the effort, like pineapples!

Sorry, but even you can't be that dense.

 

[MooMoo444]

What does coconut milk taste like?

Anything similar to a bounty bar?

I'll physically slap anyone who says coconut milk tastes of coconut. I've not had one.

 

[Glaucus]

What does coconut milk taste like?

Anything similar to a bounty bar?

I'll physically slap anyone who says coconut milk tastes of coconut. I've not had one.

Coconut milk, is nothing like coconut milk you get in a can.
It does taste of coconut but a milder taste.

 

[Nitefly]

Coconut milk, is nothing like coconut milk you get in a can.
It does taste of coconut but a milder taste.

I found that the taste of coconut flesh was quite suprising. Almost boiled egg white in texture with a very subtle milky taste. Its not that nice in all honesty.

 

[Glaucus]

I found that the taste of coconut flesh was quite suprising. Almost boiled egg white in texture with a very subtle milky taste. Its not that nice in all honesty.

coconut flesh is fibrous and not like boiled egg at all. Although never eaten the flesh from a green coconut so it maybe different.

 

[Nitefly]

coconut flesh is fibrous and not like boiled egg at all. Although never eaten the flesh from a green coconut so it maybe different.

Hmm, I distinctly remember thinking in some ways it was like egg white. You clearly ate a fake one

The milk was as your described.

I'm sure there must be different types of coconut, perhaps the explanation lies with that.

 

[Dingleberry88]

Apparantly you can live off just coconuts.

Shame they taste like coconut (insert throwing up emoticon).

 

[daz]

Coconut water =! coconut milk

Coconot water is very nice and good for you, but i think it's a slight laxative.

 

[DB_SamX]

Coconut water is heavenly when you are at the beach on a hot summer's day (not England of course).

You can also fashion a spoon out of *** skin to scoop out the soft flesh afterwards.

 

[owen2433]

I'm from the Seychelles and there's a coconut tree every 5 metres over there.

The coconut which on the outer skin is usually green or there are yellow/orangey ones, haev another husk inside them. So when you hack it off with a machete, when they put a straw on the coconut its going through the actual NUT in the cocoNUT. lol

And you can peel it off