Young Coconuts

by jenkintown, June 28, 2009 | Permalink

My family loves young coconuts. If you’ve never tried one, I highly recommend them.

A young coconut is just the immature version of the brown hairy coconut we all know. (If you’ve ever seen a coconut tree with the big green coconuts on it, that’s a young coconut.) When you get a young coconut at the market the green husk has usually been removed. It looks like a white bird house with a pointy top wrapped in plastic. We simply chop off the top and use a straw to drink the water. My toddler loves it! The water is very hydrating due to the high level of electrolytes and potassium. It’s a great replacement for sports drinks or those hydrating drinks we get when our kids are sick. After you drink the water you can use a spoon to scoop out the meat. It’s much softer than the meat in a mature coconut. You can even blend it into a smoothie for an ultra nutritious snack.

Try a young coconut and let me know what you think!