Hey
So I love young coconuts. Here in the USA I can only reliably find the white pyramid kind (not the green husk-on ones).
I like the water and the young coconut meat. From everything I've read online the young coconut meat is quite low in fat and higher in sugars compared to "regular" or mature coconut meat. Yet I still read about people freaking out about the amount of fat in young coconut meat.
So what gives? Isn't it low in fat and people just aren't aware?
Thanks!
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From a quick google for solid numbers: mature coconut meat is 80% fat, with 133 grams of fat per coconut, and young coconut meat (green husks) is lower in fat because of the higher water content, which works out to about 18% fat (3 grams of fat per coconut). That's a pretty big difference (not to mention that there's lots of GOOD fat in coconuts!), so yeah, probably just an awareness thing.
On a tangent, I wish the white young Thai coconuts were cheaper. They're almost $3 each where I live, and I need like 3 of them for a good-sized drink, haha. I don't care for bottled coconut water at all (Zico, Vita Coco, etc.), but the taste of the the juice from a fresh one is great, totally night & day from the packaged kind (I think I've found like one pre-bottled kind that I like, in a glass jar, but it was over ten bucks!). Anyway, you drink that stuff chilled & it is VERY good fresh out of the coconut!