Cocozia, the makers of 100% organic coconut water, contacted me recently and asked if I’d like to review their product. Little did they know that we’re coconut fanatics over here. We put coconut milk in our rice. In Thailand, I fell in love with a coconut ice cream that I still have dreams about. From fruit salad to actual salad, we love coconut in just about everything.
Therefore, it goes without saying that when it comes to coconut water, we’ve got pretty good background knowledge about it. Back when we lived in Malaysia, I used to stop at roadside vendors with mounds of young green coconuts piled beside their stalls and nestled in coolers. I’d stop the car, run out, and once they saw me coming they’d whip out their machete, hack one open on the spot and poke a straw into the top and shove a long metal spoon inside. On a hot tropical day, nothing could beat some ice cold coconut juice, followed by the joyous task of scraping out the bits of springy young coconut flesh off the walls of the inside of the coconut. I’d let each sliver of coconut flesh slink down my throat, congratulating myself on a well-played pit stop.
