My Wally World Find
My First Young Thai Coconuts I actually screamed out loud when I saw these at our local Wally World. I had heard that the Superstores carried them but I never would have guessed that our smaller store would too. I paid $2.98 per coconut. Believe it or not this is the first time I have purchased a young Thai coconut. I adore fresh coconut water but have only had it from our local green Florida coconuts. Take a look at what you get from the water of a young Thai coconut. (Info compiled by John Kohler ). "It's a natural isotonic beverage, with the same level of electrolytic balance as we have in our blood. It's the fluid of life, so to speak." In fact, during the Pacific War of 1941-45, both sides in the conflict regularly used coconut water - siphoned directly from the nut - to give emergency plasma transfusions to wounded soldiers. Most coconut water is still consumed fresh in tropical coastal areas - once exposed to air, the liquid rapidly loses most of it...