Coconuts are green when they are first born so they are soft. When it comes out from the coconut tree is not fall down, is to go up to get down manually. Coconut automatically fall down is old, long time growth, coconut from tender to old, so the coconut meat is hard because the growth time is too long.

If you buy a green coconut, is only drink coconut juice do not eat coconut meat, because the coconut meat is too tender, the taste is not good.

2. Coconut that thick layer of shell, to use a large kitchen knife along the fibers of a knife cut down, see the coconut above the three small holes, there are two like the same, there is a different, the surface of the small holes are not the same with a knife to scrape it, and then take the straw inserted into it.

3. If you don't want to waste the coconut meat, put the coconut on the cutting board, take the back of the knife in the hard shell of the coconut knocked a few times, cracked, then use a knife to start the meat, but the general coconut juice is good to drink the coconut meat is not good, coconut meat is good to drink the coconut juice is not good.

Extended information

Coconut (scientific name: Cocos nucifera?L.) Palm family coconut plants, plants tall, tree-like, 15-30 meters high, stout stems with ring-shaped leaf scars, thickened at the base, often with clusters of rootlets. Petiole stout, inflorescence axillary, fruit ovoid or subglobose, fruit cavity contains endosperm ("pulp" or seed kernel), embryo and sap (coconut water), flowering and fruiting mainly in the fall.

Coconut water and coconut meat contains a lot of protein, fructose, glucose, sucrose, fat, vitamin B1, vitamin E, vitamin C, potassium, calcium, magnesium and so on. Coconut meat is white as jade, fragrant and smooth; coconut milk is cool and sweet.

Coconut meat, coconut milk is a delicious fruit for young and old alike. In every 100 grams of coconut, energy reaches more than 900 kilojoules, 4 grams of protein, 12 grams of fat, 4 grams of dietary fiber, in addition to micronutrients, carbohydrate content is also very rich.?

References

Baidu Encyclopedia-Coconut