Description,
coconut is the fruit of the coconut palm. It can be up to 30 cm in diameter. It has a smooth exterior of color light green or Orange when the fruit is not ripe, pulling the strand at maturity a thick brown fibre surrounds the nuts, a solid shell that protects a whitish fine edible.
Harvesting may directly intervene on green fruit, in the tree, or by picking up ripe nuts fallen on the ground. It takes about a year before coconut reaches full maturity.
Food uses.
The coconut is rich in potassium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, copper and zinc. It has good nutritional value.
When the fruit is green, the water it contains is consumed as a refreshing drink. The nut is open to tip "rod" of three shots of machete cutting cover. Fruit for this purpose are selected based on their weight, and agitated against the ear to check for the presence of liquid.
Ripe, the kernel of coconut is edible and serves as an ingredient for many tropical cuisine recipes. The germ of the coconut which develops by occupying the space left by the coconut water is also edible. He took a round shape covered with a thin layer of yellow colour. The Interior consists of a whitish fibrous flesh to taste sweet and steeped in coconut water.
The copra harvest:
to harvest copra, coconut is open an axe kick, and left a day in the Sun. The kernel then more easily detaches with a simple knife or a knife specially designed for this purpose, with the curved blade. The kernel is then dried on drying up the almost total disappearance of its water content not to exceed 6%.
Pulp:
when the nut is young, the pulp is a thin gelatinous and edible glued to the wall of the nuts. At maturity, the flesh is solid and has a white color. It is also called "almond".
Once dried, the pulp keeps in a box sealed away from heat and light.
The pulp is used in the preparation of sauces, Curry, and also, in cakes and ice
water and coconut milk:
coconut water is consumed as a slightly sweet refreshing drink, and is used in the manufacture of vinegar.
The milk is used in many Asian dishes Malagasy or Polynesian and Indian dishes with curry: it is obtained by pressing the grated flesh of the fruit. The first extraction gives a milk very concentrated, fatty and slightly sweet, while the second, often after an addition of water, gives a less fatty milk.
Coconut powder:
coconut powder or chip is used in the preparation of pastry.
Industrial and cosmetic uses:
copra is the dried coconut endosperm. It contains 62-65% oil and 6% water. The oil
