Coconut water contains organic
compounds possessing healthy growth promoting properties that have been known to
help Keep the body cool and at the proper temperature.
• Orally re-hydrate your body, it is an all natural isotonic beverage.
• Carry nutrients and oxygen to cells.
• Naturally replenish your body's fluids after exercising.
• Raise your metabolism.
• Promote weight loss.
• Boost your immune system.
• Detoxify and fight viruses.
• Cleanse your digestive tract.
• Control diabetes.
• Aid your body in fighting viruses that cause the flu, herpes, and AIDS.
• Balance your PH and reduce risk of cancer.
• Treat kidney and urethral stones.
• Boost poor circulation.
Coconut Water Benefits
Coconut water is incredibly healthy and one of the best drinks to hydrate the
body. Besides helping to remove toxins from the body and aiding digestion,
coconuts have amazing anti-viral, anti-fungal and anti-microbial properties that
help to cure the diesease.
The English name coconut, first mentioned in English print in 1555, comes from
Spanish and Portugese word coco, which means "monkey face." Spanish and
Portugese explorers found a resemblance to a monkey's face in the three round
indented markings or "eyes" found at the base of the coconut. On the Nicobar
Islands of the Indian Ocean, whole coconuts were used as currency for the
purchace of goods until the early part of the twentieth century.
Coconuts are the fruit of the coconut palm, botanically known as cocos nucifera,
with nucifera meaning "nut-bearing." The fruit-bearing palms are native to
Malaysia, Polynesia and southern Asia, and are now also prolific in South
America, India , the Pacific Islands , Hawaii and Florida. The light, fibrous
husk allowed it to easily drift on the oceans to other areas to propagate. In
Sanskrit, the coconut palm is known as kalpa vriksha, meaning "tree which gives
all that is necessary for living," since nearly all parts of the tree can be
used in some m anner or another. The coconut itself has many food uses,
including milk, meat, sugar and oil as well as functioning as its own dish and
cup. The husk was also burned for fuel by natives, but today a seed fibre called
coir is taken from the husk and used to make brushes, mats, fishnets, and rope.
A very potent fermented toddy or drink is also made from the coconut palm's sap.
Coconut oil, a saturated fat made from dried coconut meat, is used for
commercial frying and in candies and margarines, as well as in non-edible
products such as soaps and cosmetics.
Although it takes up to a year for coconuts to mature, the trees bloom up to
thirteen times a year, so fruit is constantly forming yielding a continuous
harvest year-round. An average harvest from one tree runs about 60 coconuts,
with some trees yielding three times that amount. The coconut's name is a bit of
a misnomer, since it is botanically classified as a drupe and not a nut. It is
the largest seed known.
If you've ever opened a fresh coconut, you will have seen the thin, opaque
almost clear coconut juice or water which has a slight almond flavor. Contrary
to popular belief, this is not the coconut milk. However, the water is consumed
as a drink fresh from the coconut by many, and it can also be used in recipes.
Health Benefits of 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." In fact, 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. It is identical to human blood plasma.
• Coconut Water is a Natural Isotonic Beverage - The same level that 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 200 mg.
• 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.