![]() This must be very thorough or the finished coconut will be contaminated by flecks of brown. The nut is removed from the hard shell and the thin brown rind pared off. ![]() An important product used in the chocolate and confectionery industry is desiccated coconut. The dried coconut meat is known as copra and is the source of coconut oil, which is used in enormous quantities for making fats for baking and confectionery. The residual cake after the oil has been extracted is used as cattle food. Undesirable flavour changes in desiccated coconut is due to oxidative rancidity of the oil. From grated wet coconut kernel good quality oil as well as protein and carbohydrate can be extracted to prepare coconut honey. The white flesh is a calories rich extensively used for cookery in South India. Coconut water is a refreshing drinks which also hygienic and nutritive. ![]()
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