Coconut water ordinary aluminum cans, Tetra Paks, or plastic bottles, sometimes with coconut pulp or coconut jelly included. Coconut water can be fermented to produce coconut vinegar. It is also used to make "nata de coco", a jelly-like food. Providing 19 calories in a amount, coconut water is 95% water and 4% carbohydrates, with protein and total fat content under 1% each (table). Coconut water contains small amounts of vitamins and dietary minerals, all under 10% of the Daily Value (DV)(table). One health risk arising from excessive consumption of coconut water is an overabundance of potassium in the blood (hyperkalemia), inducing acute
Coconut pearl coconut pearl, on display at the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Coral Gables, Florida"] in 1996 before I discovered that it did not come from a coconut." They form in roughly one in every million coconuts according to the Ripley's believe it or not daily calendar. In fiction, a Coconut Pearl is used as a plot point in the acclaimed children's adventure book, Nim's Island (1999) by Wendy Orr. Coconut pearl The coconut pearl is alleged to be a coconut-produced gemstone. Claimed to be the rarest botanical gem in the world, the coconut pearl supposedly grows inside the coconut. However,