This requires a detailed answer.
Are coconut water and coconut milk one and the same thing? The answer is a unambiguous NO.
What is coconut water?—When one breaks open a very young and tender coconut fruit one gets a clear watery fluid in side . This is coconut water. At that stage of fruit development, the meat of the coconut (the white , edible solid part ) is almost not existent or feebly developed. Coconut water is a delicious drink. It is a popular drink at sea side resorts all over the tropical countries.
As the fruit matures , the liquid coconut water is gradually transformed in to the solid, white meat of the coconut fruit, popularly called COPRA.
What is coconut milk?—When the meat of a mature or an older coconut fruit is grated and the passed through a mixer and grinder, it yields a clear white, milk like liquid. This is coconut milk.
It has many culinary applications in cookery .
Now, the main question; how coconut WATER gets in to the fruit?—
Coconut water and coconut meat are the part of the coconut seed in the stage of development. Collectively both of them are called ENDOSPERM.
Coconut water is liquid endosperm and the meat is the solid endosperm. As the fruit and the seed inside matures , the liquid part is converted in to solid endosperm and ultimately it is totally converted in to solid endosperm,then it is a dry coconut. Endosperm stores reserve food for the developing embryo ( microscopic and can not be easily seen) during it germination.
Water, that is lifted from the soil ,through the roots and xylem elements, is used to manufacture food in the leaves and then that food, in its liquid form, passed in to the fruit with the help of Phloem and ultimately finds its way in to the endosperm of the seed/fruit.
I hope this will satisfy your curiosity.
2006-07-25 00:34:15
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answered by Anonymous
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Coconut water is the liquid endosperm inside young tender coconuts. As the coconut matures this liquid largely becomes absorbed into the flesh found in mature coconuts. Coconut water has long been a popular drink in the tropics.
2006-07-24 09:35:18
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answered by SMITA 2
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coconut milk is the liquid portion of the endosperm of the seed (each coconut is a fruit containing a giant seed) .... the liquid gets there the same way as water gets from the roots to the leaves and the vegetative apex -- through the plant's vascular system (xylem).
2006-07-24 09:16:54
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answer #3
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answered by myrtguy 5
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It's not water, it's coconut milk.
2006-07-24 08:59:53
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answered by kitty fresh & hissin' crew 6
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its coconut milk and it got it from rain and forming the flesh around the water it draws up from the ground,
2006-07-25 04:02:55
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answered by Anonymous
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Thru absorbtion processes.
Plants like human being have vessel system.
Plants have xylem and phloem.
Xylem is responsible for the transport of water and ions into the whole plants and phloem is responsible for the transport of product of assimilation, carbohydrates and other plants nutrients.
2006-07-24 11:51:42
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answered by stroby 3
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its liquid endosperm of coconut fruit. it has billions of nuclei, when cellularisation occurs water disappears into tasty coconut what we relish.
2006-07-24 09:48:49
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answered by nanobot 1
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That's one of nature's wonders.
2006-07-24 09:01:19
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answered by febri 1
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It is the work of God and is unsearchable
2006-07-24 09:01:48
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answered by Anonymous
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This is the greatness of Allah...
2006-07-24 09:01:03
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answered by toon 5
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