Are the South Pacific cultures
eating the coconut flesh only?
Like any food, there are nutritional advantages and disadvantages to
eating coconut flesh.
And you can
eat the coconut flesh — delicious!
Not exact matches
A so - called
coconut diet recommends
eating coconut oil — extracted from
coconut flesh — on a daily basis.
to name just a few, and that's not even counting regular raw
coconut... you know, when you crack open a whole
coconut, drain the water, and just
eat the
flesh, old - school - style.
Traditional cultures who
eat lots of
coconut butter /
flesh and oil assuming they don't
eat white flour and oxidized vegetable oils do just fine and don't have heart disease.
According to Kendall Conrad, author of SCD cookbook,
Eat Well, Feel Well, you'd have to heat the whole
coconut at 350 degrees for 20 minutes first, until the shell begins to crack, Then cool, break open with a hammer, cut out white
flesh and grate in blender or food processor before adding to hot water.
«The first solid food
eaten by a Thai baby is three spoonfuls of the custard - like
flesh of young
coconut fed to him or her by a Buddhist priest.»
Those populations consisted of indigenous people who were
eating either the
flesh of the fruit or
coconut cream as part of a traditional diet, the authors note — not just adding the oil to their Western - style meals.
When you
eat a whole
coconut for its
flesh, you first have to get a hammer or a screwdriver to pierce the «eye» on the outside of the shell, otherwise you can never access the inside of the shell.
Traditional cultures who
eat lots of
coconut butter /
flesh and oil assuming they don't
eat white flour and oxidized vegetable oils do just fine and don't have heart disease.
The answer is yes, hamsters can
eat small quantities of raw
coconut flesh on occasion.