2006-07-27 04:28:08 · 13 answers · asked by lanie1713 6 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
Actually, a coconut is not a nut. It is a seed!
But once you take the husk off of a coconut, the seed dies and then you are left with fruit...
2006-07-27 04:33:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 5⤋
Yes, it is. But the part of the coconut that we eat is actually the seed. The mesocarp or the fleshy part of the fruit is the fibers that we discard. We eat the endocarp.
In mangoes, for example, we eat the mesocarp.
The mesocarp like most other fruit is a tool used for dispersal of seeds. The mango is dispersed by birds or animals so has a fleshy, sweet and aromatic mesocarp. The coconut is dispersed by water here the fibrous mesocarp helps to keep the fruit floating.
2006-07-27 11:39:28 · answer #2 · answered by Rabindra 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is, it has a fleshy outer shell and contains the seed from which the new tree will grow, but most nuts aren't fruits, they have no fleshy outer shell, the seed is the nut.
2006-07-27 11:36:05 · answer #3 · answered by boshout 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think is a seed. It does not look like a fruit or nut at all.
2006-07-27 11:33:52 · answer #4 · answered by Trouble 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes.
The term coconut refers to the fruit of the coconut palm.
A coconut is a simple dry fruit known as a fibrous drupe (not a true nut).
2006-07-27 11:35:39 · answer #5 · answered by Christine** 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if hanging from the tree wearing a straight jacket.
2006-07-27 11:34:46 · answer #6 · answered by nico7540@sbcglobal.net 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it's a fruit.
2006-07-27 11:32:37 · answer #7 · answered by loves_travelling 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a nut you nut.
2006-07-27 11:33:15 · answer #8 · answered by Crazy Diamond 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it's a nut.
2006-07-27 11:30:20 · answer #9 · answered by Boricua Chic 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes indeed, it is.
2006-07-27 11:30:23 · answer #10 · answered by The one and only 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋