- February 5th, 2006 by drpr
18 y
2,559 6 Messages Shown
Blog: Raw Odyssey
Today started out great, but by evening I couldn't think of what I wanted to eat. I tried to make a smoothie using coconut water, cacao, dates and a banana but it turned out yucky and I didn't finish it. Finally I decided to eat a hummus sandwich. I'll be sorry for the hummus, but I guess I'll survive!
BREAKFAST (SUSHI)
Sushi Nori, 3 sheets
Taboule, 1/4 cup
Avocados, California (Haas), 80 grams
Orange Juice, 1 cup
Vitamins
LUNCH (SALAD)
Spinach, fresh, 3 cup
Sweet Corn, Fresh, 0.5 ear, medium (6-3/4" to 7-1/2" long) yields
Cucumber (peeled), 0.33 large (8-1/4" long)
Lime Juice, 1 fl oz
Scallions, raw, 1 medium (4-1/8" long)
Blue Cheese, 1.35 oz
DINNER (SANDWICH)
Taboule Salad, 4 tbsp
Spinach, fresh, 0.1 package (10 oz)
Ezekiel 4:9 Sprouted Grain Bread, 2 serving
Hummus, 0.25 cup
Avocados, California (Haas), 112 grams
SNACKS
Apples, dried, 4 ring
Dates, 1
Banana, 1/2
coconut water, 1/4 cup
Ground Raw Cacao Nibs (Nature's First Law)1 tsp
CALORIES 1,300 CARBS 168 FAT 54 PROTEIN 51
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- Try it again sometime maybe? by Deradune
18 y
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I just hated the Thai coconut and coconut water the first time I tried it. I thought it was just awful! Then I realized that was mostly because it just didn't taste like my expectations, and tried it again and discovered that I really like it. In fact now I really don't like the brown hairy coconuts as much anymore!
One thing I noticed that's very interesting is that the coconut water from Thai coconuts give a *wonderful* flavor to many raw soups.
Well, just in CASE you're willing to give it another shot... ;)
Cheers,
Michele
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- Probably Rancid Water by brankey
18 y
1,282
I live in Mexico, just 10 mins from the sea; A fresh-coconut paradise.
In spite of being easy to get fresh young (green) coconuts at many street-stationed vending karts, I saw a pile of (skinless) hairy cocnuts very unexpensive and bought 6 pieces;
I got home and opened all of them to store the water in the fridge, and avidly drank half a cup of healthy water..glub..glubb....YEEEIIIAACCKK!!!...-auto reverse flow response- WWWAAAHHHhh (vomiting)most of the water came out...
....IT WAS RANCID!!!...it gave me an acute headache and the runs for most of the night..
Now I know better....the rancid water comes from existing-oil oxidation and it is highly poisonous and really bad for your liver and kidneys....
It happens that the coconut meat and water are sealed protected from outside air and heat,by the hard shell,which becomes extremely fragile without the fibery cushion that naturally forms around it..
The fiber is removed to gain space and be able to fit more nuts in a single load, but they are roughly treated along the way,some get tiny cracks letting air in, others receive direct sunlight and the heat breaks down the balance inside the 'nut' leaving just a few lucky ones, barely 'alive' to be of some good.
It is most likely you found one of these weird-tasting water, in the process to getting rancid.
The rancid flavor is very distinctive as it tastes like SOAP, and the meat looks 'eroded'.
This is due to the fact that after the oil in the water is 'consumed' by reacting with oxygen, it looks for extra 'fuel', in the form of oil in the white meat.
The reaction will continue until the oil is consumed, and the it will rot and escape out in a gaseous form, leaving just a fetid stench behind..
Try whole 'encased' coconuts when possible, and if you're in a compromise , try weighing the coconut :
//too light=> DISCARD
+++feels heavy-> KEEP IT
+ not sure? then shake it close to your ear..
** do you hear and feel liquid inside ?
// less than half full? -> DISCARD
++ about half full and above -> KEEP IT
I hope it helps
Kind Regards
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- Re: Probably Rancid Water by drpr
18 y
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| Thanks for the tip!! I don't know if it was rancid- it doesn't quite fit the description you give, but it's possible it was on the way to rotting. Ugh!
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