Coconut Trees and All Their Benefits

If you like visiting beach, you will find this familiar beautiful scenery: coconut trees with the wind blows the leaves. What you can enjoy directly when you are there is just the fruit. Who can resist fresh coconut water served in a hot day? But, do you know that all the parts of the trees are beneficial?

Coconut trees might be one of the most beneficial trees in the world. They are an important member of palm family. They grow in tropical areas and are harvested for culinary or non-culinary uses. We all know their functions for culinary uses. Who do not know how coconut milk makes curries delicious? Or can you taste its delicious taste in a glass of pina colada?

Coconut

For so long, coconut has been considered as a valuable source of both food and medicine. Coconut fruit is called as functional food because it contains high fiber, vitamins, and minerals. These contents provide health benefits, and it is one reason why coconut is used in traditional medical world. People have learned the importance of using it as an effective way to cure illnesses.

Coconut Trees and All Their Benefits

The nutrition contained by coconut can treat many health problems, such as fever, colds, flu, cough, bronchitis, asthma, burns, earache, abscesses, dropsy, baldness, bruises, gingivitis, dysentery, irregular or painful menstruation, scurvy, sore throat, constipation, gonorrhea, jaundice, rash, scabies, skin infections, toothache, tuberculosis, tumors, typhoid, kidney stones, lice, malnutrition, nausea, swelling, syphilis, ulcers, upset stomach, weakness, and wounds. Just imagine how you are free from these illnesses only by consuming this delicious fruit!

In modern medical science, coconut is known as beneficial fruit which is able to:

o Kill bacteria that cause throat infections, cause ulcers, urinary tract infections, pneumonia, gonorrhea, gum disease and cavities, etc
o Kill viruses that cause influenza, herpes, measles, hepatitis C, SARS, AIDS, etc
o Boost energy and endurance
o Prevent osteoporosis
o Increase energy
o Support immune system function
o Prevent breast, colon, and other cancers.
o Relieve stress
o Support the development of bones and teeth
o Reduce the risk of heart disease
o Prevent obesity and overweight problems
o Control dandruff
o Reduce the risk of diabetes.
o Prevent liver disease, etc

Not only the fruit is beneficial, but also the other parts of the tree. Below are the functions of the other parts of coconut trees:

HUSKS AND SHELLS - they are a good source of fuel and charcoal. You can also use them for buffing floors. In Indonesia, shells can be used as traditional water dippers. Recently, the shells are formed into buttons and used in traditional clothes, like Batik. They can even create a sound effect of a horse's hoof-beats, so they are used in theater Foley sound effects. The dried half shells create a music effect, as used in Philippines for folk dances.

COIR - this is the fiber from the husk which is usually used in mats, ropes, brushes, caulking boats, and as stuffing fiber. People also use it for making potting compost. In India, coir is used in mattress making.
Husks and shells

LEAVES - They are traditionally used in basket making and for roofing materials. People usually wove them together to create such forms. The dried ones can be burned to ash. The stiff leaflet midribs are used to make skewers and arrows, and the bundled ones can be brooms and brushes. In Kerala India, the mid-rib of the leaves is used as a tongue-cleaner.

TRUNKS - They are used for building small bridges for their straightness, strength, and salt resistance. Hawaiians use them to form drums, containers, and even small canoes.

Coconut Trees and All Their Benefits

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Coconut Water Shaved Ice Recipes - Choco Coffee Mountain, Sweet Milk Fruit Medley and Red Bean Ice

These coconut water shaved ice recipes take this classic dessert to the next level. It's not just a treat for kids anymore, or a vacation snack that you enjoy once every few years. Shaved ice machines are easy to find on-line and inexpensive to add to your kitchen arsenal.

Kids always love shaved ice, but adding coconut water to the mix, adds a touch of sophistication, that makes it suitable for any adult occasion. Your guests will leave dazzled, thinking about how delicious, and original, your coconut water shaved ice recipe was.

Coconut

Agua de coco is mildly sweet, helping eliminate the need for artificial sweeteners. It's also healthy and invokes visions of a tropical paradise, setting a fun and relaxing mood. Cocont water is packed with potassium and vitamin C, in addition to having many other health benefits, that include, helping with your circulation, strengthening your immune system, clearing your skin, and detoxifying your body.

Coconut Water Shaved Ice Recipes - Choco Coffee Mountain, Sweet Milk Fruit Medley and Red Bean Ice

During summer, it's great for kids or at barbeques, because it's packed with electrolytes, that help rehydrate your body 15 times better than sports drinks, like Gatorade or Vitamin Water, without the calories and artificial sweeteners.

So, here are my coconut water shaved ice recipes. Enjoy!!!

Choco Coffee Mountain Shaved Ice Recipe

For this recipe, you're going to want to brew about two to three cups of coffee with coconut water. Coconut water is mildly sweet and will be undetectable in your coffee machine after a couple of uses.

Add and mix in chocolate syrup until it dissolves in the hot coffee. When it comes to room temperature, freeze this coffee in the containers for your ice shaver.

After you shave the ice, top this sweet, chocolaty coffee treat with chocolate syrup, thin sliced candied almonds, crumbled white chocolate Oreo Hershey's, thin sliced banana and a dollop of whip cream on top. While we're at it, try adding some all natural, unsalted peanut butter in there someplace.

Nobody ever thunk it, but there it is, shaved ice taken to the next level. The next two aren't quite as complicated, but nevertheless, classics that you and your kids will love!

Sweet Milk and Fruit Medley Shaved Ice Recipe

This recipe takes me back to my childhood. I remember the fruit medley cups from my lunchbox in pre-school and then in every school cafeteria from elementary school and on. LOL, fruit medley was one of the only things besides pizza and chocolate milk that I'd eat or drink from those cafeterias. Ahhhh, the memories.

Obviously, we'll need the shaved ice machine and our pre-frozen blocks of coconut water.

Once the ice is all shaved up, drizzle some sweet condensed milk over the top, and top it with canned fruit medley. And, how about some extra condensed milk for good measure?

This one's an old school classic, enjoy!!!

Red Bean and Ice - Shaved Ice Recipe

In addition to consuming lots of shaved ice while I lived in Hawaii, my childhood consisted of many trips to "J-town," as my family would call it, or Little Tokyo, in Los Angeles. From the time I was a little kid, I can remember the hole in the wall restaurant, with a little street food booth in the front, that serves red bean ice. I'm on the cusp of my 31st birthday and still go to the same place, today.

I love this recipe, and it's a cultural treat, so I though I would share it.

You're gonna want the warm red beans, that are nice and sweet, with all the juices reduced down. You can buy these beans already prepared at any Japanese market. Serve the warm red beans in a small bowl or cup and cover them with a layer of shaved ice about one inch thick and drizzle the top with sweet condensed milk.

Ahh, so simple, but so good. This one is actually pretty healthy because, not only do you have the coco water, you have all the nutrients from the red beans as well.

Thank you for checking out my article about my favorite shaved ice recipes that I make with coconut water. Enjoy the benefits of coconut water while indulging in a tasty, refreshing dessert. Enjoy!!!

Coconut Water Shaved Ice Recipes - Choco Coffee Mountain, Sweet Milk Fruit Medley and Red Bean Ice

Thank you for checking out my coconut water shaved ice recipes, I hope you enjoyed them!!!

I've been drinking coconut water since I was living in Hawaii six years ago because I've always enjoyed it as a refreshing beverage. Recently, it's been becoming more popular because of the health benefits.

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Cooking With Coconut Milk - Filipino Ginataang Manok and Bicol Express Recipes

Like other Asian countries such as Thailand and Vietnam, the Philippines is noted as one of the homes of spices and food. Thailand, however, has become now more popular than Philippines when it come to food and recipes as a result of it's increased popularity in west. The recipes cited below will bring your taste buds to life and allow you to discover the food of the Philippines.

Ginataang Manok

Coconut

Ingredients:

Cooking With Coconut Milk - Filipino Ginataang Manok and Bicol Express Recipes

1/2 kilo Chicken meat (any part)
1 red bell pepper
1 bundle spinach
1 medium ginger chopped
1 onion
5 garlic cloves chopped
1 can coconut milk
salt and pepper to taste

Cooking Procedure:

  • In a frying pan, fry chicken meat until golden brown.
  • Saute onion, garlic and ginger.
  • Add the chicken meat and mix.
  • Add red bell pepper
  • Add coconut milk and simmer until chicken is tender.
  • When chicken meat is tender, add the spinach. Salt and pepper to taste.
  • Simmer for few minutes and serve.

Enjoy your Ginataang Manok.

Bicol Express

Ingredients:

1/2 kilo pork meat
1 can coconut milk
2 siling labuyo chopped
1 thumb size ginger diced
5 cloves garlic chopped
1 onion chopped
2 tbsp. shrimp paste
1/4 cup water

Cooking Procedure:

  • Saute onion, garlic and ginger.
  • Add pork meat saute until outer part turns light brown.
  • Add some water. Bring to boil.
  • Add the coconut milk simmer until pork is tender and thicken the sauce.
  • Add shrimp paste and chili peppers. Simmer for few minutes.
  • Serve hot.

Enjoy your Bicol Express!

Cooking With Coconut Milk - Filipino Ginataang Manok and Bicol Express Recipes

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