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Anybody Else Digging the Coconut Juice/Water Craze?

post #1 of 14
9/3/10 at 1:40am
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I must admit it's very hydrating stuff, albeit expensive. LA is selling out. It was plentiful at Trader Joe's, discount stores, etc and now you either have to seek it out or pay premium prices at Whole Foods.
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post #2 of 14
9/3/10 at 6:38am
You might be able to get it bottled in the international aisle of your supermarket. I think I've bought it in the section where Jamaican products are sold (along with ginger beer - yum!), or it might be with the Goya & Latin foods. Or you can just get your own from a fresh coconut. That's what I used to do years ago. There are three small sort of oval shapes on the top of a coconut, if I remember correctly, that you can pierce with an ice pick or whatever, and then drain out the water. If you shake a coconut you can hear the water sloshing around in there. It's very tasty, I agree, but I think it might be a fairly high caloric addiction!
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post #3 of 14
9/3/10 at 7:57am
I just discovered this stuff a few weeks ago, and I drank some this morning (after my morning workout). I love it!
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post #4 of 14
9/3/10 at 8:25am
I love coconut juice- I would live on the stuff if i could.The best I had was straight out of the coconut in South East Asia with a straw stuck in the coconut and then you scoop out the flesh . Fresh coconut juice is amazing - ice cold fresh coconut juice even MORE so .....and so is the flesh .Now I am getting hungry......
( Those who do Ashtanga yoga in Mysore, India make it a habit to drink coconut juice after their 90 minute yoga practice. )
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post #5 of 14
9/3/10 at 8:30am
I NEVER have bottled coconut juice/water.

The only coconut water worth drinking comes from an actual coconut, opened before my eyes, with a coconut that's been chilled in advance.

cheers
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post #6 of 14
9/3/10 at 9:07am
I've been drinking it for years both from the coconut and can. I love it. I definitely prefer it right from the chilled coconut with the top sliced off. Yum
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post #7 of 14
9/3/10 at 12:46pm
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It is a common beverage where I'm from. As a kid, I drank coconut water/juice from the actual coconuts and then used a metal spoon to scrap the white flesh surrounding interior of the husk and eat it, it is delicious though a little bland. They're commonly served at hawker/street food stalls here, or can be bought with the top of the husk already sliced opened, at the market. Best chilled.
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post #8 of 14
9/3/10 at 12:48pm
Love it from the coconut, but the stuff from the can tasted a bit odd to me.
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post #9 of 14
9/3/10 at 10:04pm
The small sweet tasting ones sold in the streets of Bangkok, floating in a cart of ice for less than a dollar. They hack the tops off and you drink from it with a straw... pure heaven.
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post #10 of 14
9/12/10 at 8:09am
I tried about 30 different brands of coconut water.
O.N.E. is my favorite of all the unsweetened ones, and it seems to have the most health benefits.
Didn't at all like the aftertaste of Vitacoco water, it has this really awful (socks) aftertaste.

But my favorite of all is Goya's Roasted Coconut Water.
I literally bought 10 cases of it at the goya distribution center in bolingbrook, IL several months ago! 240 cans!!! I'm about 1/2way thru it.
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post #11 of 14
9/13/10 at 9:13am
I used to drink the milk straight from coconuts all the time when I was little (I always heard it called "milk" and not juice or water), but I've never seen it bottled, and I haven't bought a coconut lately.

I'm on the fence about whether I'd want coconut milk bottled in the first place. Just seems wrong for some reason, though I guess it's no different than orange juice or apple juice in reality. It's just that it already comes in a nice bottle!
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post #12 of 14
9/13/10 at 10:48am
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Originally Posted by DULLAH View Post

I tried about 30 different brands of coconut water.
O.N.E. is my favorite of all the unsweetened ones, and it seems to have the most health benefits.
Didn't at all like the aftertaste of Vitacoco water, it has this really awful (socks) aftertaste.

But my favorite of all is Goya's Roasted Coconut Water.
I literally bought 10 cases of it at the goya distribution center in bolingbrook, IL several months ago! 240 cans!!! I'm about 1/2way thru it.

Thanks for saving me a lot of time and $
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post #13 of 14
9/13/10 at 2:24pm
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But my favorite of all is Goya's Roasted Coconut Water.
I literally bought 10 cases of it at the goya distribution center in bolingbrook, IL several months ago! 240 cans!!! I'm about 1/2way thru it.

Is it also in an aseptic packaging like the O.N.E. - or is the Goya in a metal can? Sounds great and should be easy for me to find here in Miami, where Goya products are easy to find.
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post #14 of 14
9/13/10 at 7:52pm
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Is it also in an aseptic packaging like the O.N.E. - or is the Goya in a metal can? Sounds great and should be easy for me to find here in Miami, where Goya products are easy to find.

Goya is not trying to f#@k with the "health craze" coconut waters on all that. Metal tall can with added sugar and chunks of roasted coconut floating throughout. F#@king delicious!!!

*puts another 10 tall cans in the fridge*
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