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Coconut
Coconuts are the fruit of the coconut palm tree. It is commonly used as a flavoring or ingredient in foods and beverages. It is also a favorite additive in many beauty products.
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Is ribbon coconut just regular coconut?
It's unsweetened coconut cut in very thin slices or "ribbons". Unsweetened flaked coconut would be the same thing except for the texture. I use ribbon coconut in a peanut brittle recipe and it doesn't turn out well with regular, unsweetened coconut.
The coconut you find at the grocery store with the nuts and chocolate chips is sweetened. I found unsweetened flake coconut in the natural foods aisle.
Is coconut water good for you liver?
Well,yes it is good for your liver and it prevents you from vomiting and when you drink coconut water don't eat any dairy products for 24 hours. Rich and ripe coconuts are harvested in forests or islands.
How do you get coconut oils out of coconuts?
With changing times, the awareness of virgin coconut oil is increasing. It is slowly becoming major functional food oil. In the next few years, it will witness a dramatic growth in the market.
Virgin coconut oil is extracted from fresh coconut milk obtained from mature kernels of the coconut, by mechanical or natural means. VCO can be consumed in its natural state without any further processing. It is oil that does not undergo chemical refining or bleaching. It mainly comprises of medium chain fatty acids. The important fatty acid in VCO is lauric acid. It constitutes 48% of VCO. It also possesses powerful anti-microbial properties capable of destroying bacteria, fungi, viruses and parasites.
Virgin coconut oil is the best possible remedy to treat various skin ailments. It is also the best skincare solution for babies. Since it is free from chemicals, it assures good protection to baby skin.
To produce 1 kg of virgin coconut oil, 7 kg of de-husked coconuts are required, which is roughly around 17 coconuts.
The virgin coconut oil extraction process is as follows:
· De-husking: The husk is removed manually or with the help of a coconut de-husking machine.
· Deshelling: It is done to remove the shell of the coconut.
· Paring: It is done to remove the brown skin of the kernel with the help of a paring machine.
· Blanching: Pared coconuts are dipped in boiling water for few minutes in a blanching tank.
· Draining: It can be done with the help of vibratory screener. This will remove the excess water present in the blanched coconuts.
· Disintegration: Pared coconuts are fed into a disintegrator where pared nuts are cut into small pieces and will be ready for extraction.
· Milk extraction: Shredded coconuts are put into a milk extractor (screw press/ hydraulic press) and coconut milk oozes out of the extractor. Extracted milk is collected in collecting vessels. Extracted coconut milk is then filtered to remove if any solids are present. Residue obtained after extraction is dried in an oven and packed a defatted desiccated coconut.
· Centrifugation: This process is used to separate two immiscible substances. Coconut milk is the natural oil in water emulsion. After centrifugation, oil and skim milk is separated. Coconut oil is separated from coconut milk.
· Filtration: The oil is passed through the filter press and packed in consumer packs. Vacuum drying of virgin coconut oil will remove the moisture present in that. This can be packed as "premium grade VCO".
Every fruit contains some amount of water but the water content in coconut is unsually large with abundant minerals and aminoacid. Altough the endosperm theory is most likey the explanantion but I wonder if this tree contains a device like a 'pump' to suck up the water from the ground? I also wonder if the biologists have ever explored this possibilty!
Faizur Chowdhury MD
I'm pretty sure they can. Hamsters can eat most fruit if they like it. But it has to be sterilized, and probably dry.
What is the calorific value of coconut shell?
Table 1. Energy from Components of an Average Coconut
Component
Kg
Kcal/kg
Energy
Kcal
Percent of Total Energy
Coconut oil
.12
9000
1080
27.7
Carbohydrates and proteins
.06
4000
225
5.7
Shell
.18
5500
990
25.4
Husk
.40
4000
1600
41.1
.76
3895
99.9
well according to me its not because it is divided into parts and simple leaves are not divided compound leaf is divided so coconut leaf is a compound leaf i guess
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People of the Phillipnes refer to the Coconut as the 'Tree of Life' due to its myriad uses - by humans.
acording to me none.
Coconut seeds are among some of the seeds that are dispersed by water. This is because these seeds are capable of floating on the water despite being very large. They have fibrous husks, which traps air helping it to stay afloat in water. Due to this type of dispersion, the seeds germinate at new sites away from the parent plant.
A person usually climb up the tree and drop the coconuts.
Do the coconuts grow back in virtual villagers 2?
In very small amounts about every 2-5 hours they grow back.
