1. Plants belonging to the palm family and their fruits. It is widely distributed throughout the tropical climate.
Both pulp and juice from the inside can be eaten.
It can be seen that it usually grows around the equatorial coast. No wonder, palm trees like coconut trees grow well when they are exposed to sunlight for a long time. In addition, high salt resists well, but the precipitation should be high because it needs to replenish moisture escaping due to osmotic pressure. Dry and high latitudes in inland areas receive less sunlight than the equator. They live almost exclusively in tropical climates, not subtropical ones. In sandy soil, fruits may spread to other places along the current. The reason why the fruit can survive on the sea for a long time is that the tough fibrous fruit skin floats in the water, and the seeds contain water and nutrients inside. The breeding method uses ocean currents, in which the fruit falling from the tree floats in the sea, touches the coastal sand, and germinates and grows with the juice and pulp in the fruit. In this way, the fruit can sail hundreds of kilometers, and since it can be useful to humans and is artificially planted, there are few places that are presumed to be native to tropical coasts outside Southeast Asia. The largest producer is the Philippines.
Coconut consists of the skin of the surgical skin, the mesothelium, and the inner skin, and all of them have been removed for overseas export, leaving only the inner skin.
And it is a place where the liquid in the inner skin is the pear milk, which corresponds to the nutrients of the seeds. The more mature the milk is, the more solid it becomes. When fully ripe, it becomes similar to wood. And at the end of the mediastinum, there is a belly area, which acts as a seed for other plants. Therefore, when the coconut sprouts, it becomes the appearance of fruit sprouting. Palm trees have no branches to climb in the middle and are high at 4 to 6m. Inside the pale green outer shell are dense and thickly developed fibrous layers, such as tough wood. This is what most people think of coconut. This fibrous layer is the result of the deterioration of pulp, and it is formed light and thin, so there is air between the fibers, which creates buoyancy and allows the coconut to float well in water. The seeds hidden inside are revealed only when the outer shell and the fibrous layer are peeled off. The edible part is the content of this seed, which is very hard unlike the outer shell and the fibrous layer in the middle. Therefore, you cannot cut it without a saw, a machete, or a wine opener. However, since it is a seed that must grow and germinate in the end, coconut also has a gap that can open naturally and can be laid without any special tools if you know the ropes.
In the case of wild coconut, it is so dangerous that warning signs are made separately.
This is because there are many accidents in which coconut fruits fall from palm trees and get hurt. The full-grown coconut fruit weighs about 1.44 kg, similar to a brick, and some properly grown ones are larger than watermelons in size. In addition, the tissue is very dense to store the juice, so it is very hard, and the coconut falling from the high palm tree is accelerated by gravity, so it is seriously injured when it is hit by the fallen coconut. It is dangerous enough to be taken seriously that rumors that about 15 times more people die from coconuts than sharks do in a year. If you touch your head, you may start with a concussion at least, and if you are unlucky, you may die immediately due to a skull fracture, or even if you are lucky, you may have to live a lifetime of being a plant human or unable to move your whole body due to a neck fracture. There are many foreigners who enter coconut cultivation areas without knowing anything, but there is also quite a lot of damage to children who are careless and elderly people who are poor at judgment due to aging. For this reason, in places like beaches where many tourists flock, palm trees are intentionally pulled out and planted elsewhere to prevent accidents. Warning signs are placed where palm trees are located, and sometimes accidents occur, so a net is placed under the fruit to prevent it from falling to the ground, or employees often pick and remove the fruit that has grown to a certain extent. There were also soldiers killed by falling coconut fruit during the Pacific War, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War, according to historical researcher Francis Fox Parry, who studied the U.S. Marines' records of participating in the Battle of Guadalcanal in January 1943 while sleeping under a palm tree near Henderson Airfield. The soldier was supposed to leave Guadalcanal the next day, but he did not reveal his personal details, perhaps because it was absurd that the soldier who survived months of fierce fighting ended his life because of coconut, not even an enemy attack.
2. It grows well in the tropics and grows on the coast with a salty smell.
Since ancient times, it has played a major role in supplying moisture and food for victims who have fallen behind the island.
The calories of coconut are only 15 to 20 kcal if you drink only the juice inside (coconut water), but if you scratch the white part inside the shell, it exceeds 350 kcal. This is because there are a lot of nutrients and oil needed for coconut to grow in pear milk. A bag of instant noodles in Korea costs about 500 to 600 kcal. Coconut is often called a diet food, but it does not include the sound of coconut water and pear milk. The taste of juice varies depending on the variety, degree of ripening, freshness, and country of origin. Recently, the number of Internet stores that allow people to purchase and eat relatively good quality imported fruits has increased. The raw coconuts sold in these places are quite edible. After drinking all the juice, cut the skin with a saw, and dig out the white flesh inside. Among coconut, the sweet taste is very similar to the taste of persimmon. I can't believe it's just a persimmon drink. As you can see from the above, you can see that the taste of coconut varies depending on where it is sold. No matter how good the coconut is, it is not comparable to eating ripe ones in the country of origin. Infamous resorts such as Hawaii and Guam, sellers happily cut coconuts on jungle roads and put straws in them. It is a representative drink that can be found in tropical areas.
Presumably, the main ingredients are fructose and moisture, which are believed to play a role in honey water.
The peeled and wooded coconut seeds found in large supermarkets are coconuts that have been harvested for quite a long time due to the long-term distribution process with distant specialties. Therefore, these coconuts have already lost a lot of moisture and pulp during the long distribution process. So the pulp is not as thick as in the picture above. If you cut the coconut in half, you can also get white pulp developed along the shell, which tastes savory and is pear milk rather than pulp. It is a sprouting energy source and nourishes the growth of young palm sprouts. This is the crunchy white powder sprinkled on pada nuts or doughnuts. When you go to the bakery, they sell it with chopped dry pulp, and it smells sweet. If you just say copra, you can say coconut copra. The pulp is ground and squeezed to make a food ingredient called coconut milk, which is quite a delicacy. It is almost essential in Southeast Asian food recipes, and it is used as if milk and cream are added to European dishes. In Malaysia and Indonesia, they make rice with coconut milk, especially Thai food is made with coconut milk instead of water. Tom yum Kung is made with coconut cream. If you put it in curry, you can taste Southeast Asia properly. In the United States and France, it is also brought in to give modern creative dishes a unique flavor as a substitute for milk, is used to make snacks and soups, and is also sold in the form of canned food in Korea. It is important to note that coconut milk has a lot of saturated fat, so it hardens when left at the same low temperature as the refrigerator. If you heat it, the oil component is separated, so it is better to stir the hardened coconut milk. There is also a way to cool it down on purpose and use it like whipped cream, so be careful with handling coconut milk because it is easy to go bad. The calories are high, so be careful with the dieters. Some dried coconut pieces are sold on their own and are often used in confectionery. In addition, coconut slices are coated and fried with frying clothes, such as bread crumbs, and coconut shrimp is a representative food. It is a great combination because the chronic greasiness of the fried food is also controlled to some extent with a sweet taste and the crunchiness of the pieces themselves is added to enhance the texture.
The resort sells coconut pulp cut under running water in this way.
This is called the coconut fountain. Tropical products such as the Philippines, which are cut a little as big as a finger and added sugar, are also on the market, and they eat snacks. I just eat it or sprinkle sugar on it. It is characterized by a moderately crispy, sweet, savory, and a bit bitter aftertaste. When acetic acid bacteria such as Acetobacter xylinum are added to coconut juice, the bacteria secrete fiber while eating the juice, resulting in a translucent jelly form with a sour taste, called Nata de coco. Here, sweeten it with a sweetener such as sugar and eat it as a snack. It's also an image that comes to mind when you think of coconut. The main ingredient is cellulose and moisture, so there are few calories in itself, but as mentioned above, there are actually calories because sweeteners are mixed to make it sweet. As you walk along the street, you can see a street vendor selling coconut. If you buy it, you can drill a hole or punch the top with a knife and insert a straw to sell it. Even in the local area, cut the top part like a square lid with a knife, remove the part, and insert a straw. Usually, because of the hard shell, the pulp is not dug up and eaten, but seems to be discarded after drinking only the fruit juice. The raw flesh has a sweet scent that is not strong and has a unique texture in the savory taste of saturated fat, but it also has little sweetness like fruit juice, so it is not suitable for Korean taste. Recently, coconut drinks are often introduced as large discount stores have begun to bring in a lot of foreign drinks. These days, even the local supermarket has entered. If you have a chance to get access to coconut at home, first find a hole in the coconut, poke a hole in it, put a straw in it, drink all the juice, widen the hole and scoop it with a spoon. The size of the shim is the area where the straw fits perfectly, so there is little risk of juice flowing out from drinking it. If the skin is too hard to eat, wrap it in plastic and break it with a hammer or other tool. Coconut oil and coconut vinegar are also made using coconut flesh.
3. The sap was extracted from the stem and made a syrup called Rub and used for confectionery and medicinal purposes.
And I ground the roots and made thin noodles and ate them.
According to records from Ibn Batuta's travelogue, the noodles were boiled and sold with coconut juice, which the author loved. Tagua and Phytelephas spp form hard pear milk when the fruit is opened long after the water inside becomes a gel and then hardens. This hard pear milk literally has a very similar texture to ivory and is in the spotlight as a replacement for ivory. In particular, it is often used to replace ivory buttons. Coconut doesn't have a part to throw away that is considered the most common tree for humans, and the trunk of the coconut tree makes truck seats, and the shell of the coconut fruit is said to be used to clean the interior of the airplane engine. The leaves and stems of trees and the bark of fruits are baked to make charcoal. It is not made by burning wood like charcoal made in Korea or Japan but is originally distributed in the form of powdered coal. This is a small briquette shaped like a briquette usually used in cheap charcoal-grilled houses. It should be noted that this real palm charcoal has a large particle size that makes up the formed coal. The skin of the fruit is ground and used instead of Patmos in horticultural culture soil, which is called Cockpit. Acid soil such as epitomize may be used for chewing, and ground topsoil, which is commonly used for general crops in combination with other materials, is a mixture of Cocopite and other materials. However, it is difficult to completely replace Fitmos, and residual salts may remain during the processing process, so be careful about using it, such as soaking it in water once, and if you want to use it in a place like a garden, it is recommended to just use Fits.
The fiber of the shell is twisted into a rope.
When you go to the hiking trail, a mat laid to prevent slipping or prevent weeds from growing is a coconut mat made of coconut fiber. Even if left unattended for a long time, it is a natural material, so it is efficient because it does not harm nature. As Bear Grills and the Law of the Jungle show, dry coconut shells make a great spark. The shell is also widely used as an inner house for small animals such as hamsters. It is easy to get at a mart at a lower price than other innerwear, and it seems that it is harmless even if it is a natural ingredient. It's not common, but it's also used as a weapon, and Roddy Piper hit Snooker's head with a coconut during an interview with Jimmy Snooker and took Snooker sightseeing. What's more surprising is that the coconut hit Snooka's head was shattered. In this case, since it is for special effects, a tool prepared in advance such as making cuts is used