Coconut Water and Its Increasing Popularity as a Refreshing Health Drink

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Coconut water is a healthy and refreshing drink that rehydrates a person after an strenuous exercise.

President Benigno Aquino III’s working visit to the United States has resulted to investment proposals by American businessmen to the Philippines. Among them is the production of packed coconut water. This sparked strong interest to coconut farmers in the Philippines. Two American Companies, the PepsiCo and the Vita coco, expressed to the president their desire to invest in the production of coconut water which is usually contained in tetra paks or cans. PepsiCo has not given any figure as to the amount of its proposed investment. Vita Coco on the other hand plans to invest 15 million dollars for the business in the next four years.
Coconut is a palm tree that is endemic in the tropical regions of the world. It has a round fruit with a liquid in its cavity. The liquid in the young green coconut is a food for its developing embryo. The meat of a young coconut is gel like and delicious.
It is eaten as it is by scraping it off with a spoon or it is used as ingredient of salad. As the coconut matures the color of the skin turns from green into light brown. The meat in the cavity hardens and the taste of the water changes. The water of the young coconut is refreshing and delicious while the water of the mature one is bland so that it is not usually drunk. When a mature coconut is split open people just throw the water away or it is collected for use as vinegar.
The introduction of packed coconut water in the market has given the health conscious Americans assortment of drinks to choose from after strenuous physical exercise. Coconut water is a natural drink that provides a person nutritional and therapeutic benefits.
It contains all of the electrolytes that are found in the body such as calcium, sodium, phosphorus, magnesium and potassium. Electrolytes are very important to the human body since they help it absorb minerals. After exercise coconut water rehydrates a person by replenishing electrolytes and glucose especially potassium that his body has lost.

Coconut water is good for the heart and it lowers blood pressure.

It is cholesterol and fat free. It contains 15 times the potassium of most sports drinks and twice as much as bananas. It is also a treatment for hangover. Drinking wine causes acids to accumulate in the stomach and intestines which inflames the stomach linings and results to heartburn. A drink of coconut water soothes the digestive tract. In addition coconut water helps the liver and the kidney to filter out toxins and to eliminate kidney stones.

Coconut water has anti-oxidant properties that can boost a person’s immune system.

Popular brands of coconut water in the United States which is in tetra packs, cans or plastic bottles include Vita Coco, Zico and O.N.E. There is growing demand for coconut water in the United States, and in order to meet it American companies turn to countries in tropical regions as a source of coconut water.
The Philippines being the top exporter of coconut products in the world can fill up some of the demand.  But it has to improve its coconut productivity first. It should plant new trees to replace the old ones that are less productive. A tree at the peak of its productivity is from 7 to 25 years old when it can have 40-65 nuts per year.
It is ironic that a non- coconut growing country such as the United States should pioneer in the production of packed coconut water and announce to the world its health benefits. Increasing demands of coconut water in the United States and other countries of the world will translate to a bright future for the Philippine coconut industry. However, when substantial quantity of young coconuts are harvested the production of another important product, the copra, which is the dried meat of a matured coconut will decrease.
The coconut tree is indeed a tree of life. The roots, the trunk, the leaves and its other parts can be used for some purposes. However, the fruit is its most useful part, and the water in the green young coconut is one of the healthiest and refreshing drinks there are in the world. Because it is processed in such a way as to preserve its original essential minerals, packed coconut water may be a better drink than either Gatorade or Powerade.
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(Source:  http://allhealth9.com/coconut-water-and-its-increasing-popularity-as-a-refreshing-health-drink.html )