Is not juice because you don't squeeze the coconut. Sorry, pal.
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You squeeze the lime in the coconut.
...and drink it all up.
Then you call the doctor, wake him up!
And say "doctor doctor... gimme the news. I got a bad case of loving two."
You're such a silly woman!
It also lacks the sugar content characteristic of juice
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Nah. I'm gonna start calling juice water. Apple water. Orange water. Grape water. Tomato water.
Also, why do you associate water with holiness and gods?
To me, "orange water" is a pitcher of water that has some orange slices chilling in it for a bit of flavor. "Juice" is the stuff results from squeezing a fruit or vegetable to expel its liquid.
I call all of it "sugar water" so that my kids know the two main ingredients.
“Everybody knows grape is a fruit! Why you gotta say it weird?”
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The water is a filtered sap that’s drawn up from the roots and transported through the tree’s vascular system (its water and nutrient transport system), specifically the xylem tissue.
The coconut tree’s extensive root system, ranging from 1 to 5 metres deep, absorbs groundwater – with dissolved nutrients – from the surrounding soil. The absorbed water is then transported upwards through the trunk and branches and finally to the fruit.
The fruit retains this water, stored in the cavity of the coconut. The accumulated water, with its rich nutrients, provides food to the developing endosperm (white flesh).
Therefore, coconut water is neither rainwater nor seawater stored inside, but carefully filtered and nutrient-rich clear liquid formed by the tree itself.
About 95% of coconut water is simply water, making it an excellent hydrating fluid.
It's called coconut water because it's been called that for hundreds of years. It's not something newly created by corporate eggheads. They are just capitalizing on what is already out there.
It's called coconut milk in Finnish.
Also, this seems more like a rant than a question.
edit: My bad, it's actually called water in finnish too. Everyone just refers to it as milk in everyday speech.
Coconut milk is something different than coconut water.
Coconut milk is white, coconut water is clear.
Yeah there’s coconut water, coconut milk, and coconut cream. Totally different!
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Are you suggesting coconuts lactate???
No, but an African or European shrew could lactate into a coconut for storage purposes.
They are hairier than many mammals.
I considered making a "Meet the Parents" reference, but I'm not happy with what I've come up with.
Well, what the hell.
"I have nuts, Greg. Can you milk me?"
Coconut milk is different than coconut water. Coconut milk they make from the flesh of the coconut, squeeze it or whatever, the water is flioating as is inside the coconut. They sell the coconut milk in cans for cooking stuff, and it's white like milk sort of, coconut water is clear-ish.
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The juice from a coconut is mostly water. We also call watermelon watermelon and that is more juice like than coconut water. They should be called juicemelons. 🤷♂️
Another conspiracy from Big Watermelon.
But if the flesh of a melon is squeezed and the liquid collected, it becomes watermelon juice.
Water juice.
Not really, mainly due to how the liquid is stored.
I generally think that juice is within the flesh of the fruit that needs to be squeezed out. I can't drill a hole in a watermelon to drink watermelon juice, but I can drill a hole in a coconut and drink the coconut water.
Finally somebody is taking on Big Nut Water
I've never thought about that but I'm going to come up with a reason.
I'll say it is water because it can be just poured from inside the coconut, you just need to poke a hole.
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Not near as big of a sin as "vitamin water" calling itself water.
Coconut cum
it should be labeled as sooo high in potassium that it kills dogs.
The people saying that coconut-milk is different from coconut-cream is different from coconut-water are right, btw.
https://nativepet.com/blogs/health/can-dogs-drink-coconut-water
Potassium-overdose is the standard method for inducing heart-stop, ie in executions in China, & in other cases where medical-heart-stop is required.
Dogs're small, & so the potassium-concentration in coconut-water is more proportional to their entire-bodymass than it would be for the same size drink compared with a human drinking it.
their metabolism's hotter, too,
& there's an entire chemical-family ( which is represented in chocolate, alcoholic-drinks, etc ) which is lethal to many animals but not to us ( dogs, parrots, can't remember if cats, etc. )
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Why? We don't label anything else that can kill dogs. Just don't give human food to your dog without at least double checking that it's safe.
It's really hard to overdose on potassium from foods for a human so it's not really a concern for us unless there's some sort of complication.
We don’t label anything else that can kill dogs. Just don’t give human food to your dog
Might maybe be a good idea to start. (And cats as well, as the other most common housepet.)
And as for 'just don't give it to them' ... well, sometimes dogs get into things they're not supposed to. It might be good to have things that are dangerous to dogs labeled so that you quickly and easily know which foods need to be extra protected to make extra-sure your dog can't get into them.
(Then again, I expect a lot of corporate resistance to this. Because stupid people will see the 'this may be dangerous to dogs' label and think, "Wow, if it's bad for dogs, it must be bad for me as well!" and they won't buy it. Or they won't buy it because they don't want anything dangerous to their precious pooch to even be in the house at all. So forcing companies to have that label will probably result in reduced sales for those companies. Which means reduced profits, which means they'll fight hard against any requirement to label their products this way.)
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Either way it tastes like it's been in someone else's mouth
Coconut water is the liquid endosperm found in the cavity of the nut. Coco"nut".
I didn't know coconut water was a thing until now, was only aware of coconut milk.
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