What is a Young Coconut used for??

I come from the land of cocnuts. The 'white slime' is eaten and it's sweeter than the mature ones which are harder. You get more cocunut water from the tender coconuts and it's a refreshing drink. We usually eat the flesh as it is but sometimes we have it with jaggery too (you can use brown sugar). I don't know if it is used to cook. We've always eaten it just as it is and we love it. Actual cocunut milk that is used for cooking is squeezed out from ground mature cocnut flesh. We do it at home and it is used for cooking certain dishes. It is slightly thick in consistency and white in colour. But the clear liquid you find inside the coconut is cocnut water that we drink.

Hi chajudLeoBit, The water in the young coconut is very good for health. It contains lot of vitamins and minerals.It reduces the heat of the body. Actually the asians, purticularly Indians use this tender(young)coconuts in plenty.Even the doctors recommend it for patients.Purticularly for those suffering from jaundice. White slime in the young coconut is just for eating, but it is only for the water that it is(young coconuts) are used. Anyhow you took something that is good for health and that is the point. Good Luck.

Gee, good question ChaJudLeoBit! I've always wondered about that myself. Thanks to the posters above, I now understand a whole lot more about coconuts, coconut milk, and how healthy it is in it's young state. Great answers for those of us who hadn't a clue!

Here in the Philippines, we call the young coconut buko. The juice or water is very sweet and has medicinal properties as when we have UTI, we are advised to drink young coconut water. The flesh is used for many things especially the what we call Buko Salad and it's very delicious and nutritious too. They also use the young flesh meat of the buko in special cakes and others what we call kakanin. The young cocunut here is very expensive and all that we can eat which have the buko flesh are very dear. We prepare the buko salad in special occasions for it is very delicious but very expensive.

I had no answer for you because I had no clue. But I wanted to see if anyone else had an answer because you made me curious. : ) I'm glad I looked to find out the answer(s) because that is pretty cool.

Great question, I had no idea at all until reading the earlier responses - thank you for helping me learn something new.

you can store the coconut water in your fridge so you can have a drink of it once a day. drinking a glass a day would help prevent UTI. if you don't want to drink it as it is, you can try and add condense milk, or sugar and evaporated milk to add a little flavor to it. and then put it in the fridge to cool it. its a very good refreshment especially if it has coconut meat on it. but even with a little coconut water would do. ^__^ as far as i know, coconut water is not used in cooking. it is always drank as it is. the milk you're talking about is the white liquid extracted from matured coconut meat. ^__^ it is used in many Filipino dishes.

Hello,ChaJudLeoBit!green coconut are used in Asian countries particularly in India as health drinks.the Indians used it during summer to quench thirst instead of soft drinks.it is low in fat,no cholesterol and low calorie value.the Indian doctors recommend green coconut water for health drinks for jaundice patients.from the mature coconuts oil is extracted and used as edible oil.various food items are also prepared from the mature coconuts.thank you.

LOL, ur funny huh? i mean yeah its yummy the young coconut, u can make it a salad actually, add milk and sugar and a sweet corn.. whew.. its delicious and drink the water on it.