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Is not juice because you don't squeeze the coconut. Sorry, pal.

Nah. I'm gonna start calling juice water. Apple water. Orange water. Grape water. Tomato water.

Also, why do you associate water with holiness and gods?

The water is a filtered sap that’s drawn up from the roots and transported through the tree’s vascular system (its water and nutrient transport system), specifically the xylem tissue.

The coconut tree’s extensive root system, ranging from 1 to 5 metres deep, absorbs groundwater – with dissolved nutrients – from the surrounding soil. The absorbed water is then transported upwards through the trunk and branches and finally to the fruit.

The fruit retains this water, stored in the cavity of the coconut. The accumulated water, with its rich nutrients, provides food to the developing endosperm (white flesh).

Therefore, coconut water is neither rainwater nor seawater stored inside, but carefully filtered and nutrient-rich clear liquid formed by the tree itself.

About 95% of coconut water is simply water, making it an excellent hydrating fluid.

How do coconuts get their water

It's called coconut water because it's been called that for hundreds of years. It's not something newly created by corporate eggheads. They are just capitalizing on what is already out there.

It's called coconut milk in Finnish.

Also, this seems more like a rant than a question.

edit: My bad, it's actually called water in finnish too. Everyone just refers to it as milk in everyday speech.

The juice from a coconut is mostly water. We also call watermelon watermelon and that is more juice like than coconut water. They should be called juicemelons. 🤷‍♂️

Not really, mainly due to how the liquid is stored.

I generally think that juice is within the flesh of the fruit that needs to be squeezed out. I can't drill a hole in a watermelon to drink watermelon juice, but I can drill a hole in a coconut and drink the coconut water.

Finally somebody is taking on Big Nut Water

I've never thought about that but I'm going to come up with a reason.

I'll say it is water because it can be just poured from inside the coconut, you just need to poke a hole.

Not near as big of a sin as "vitamin water" calling itself water.

Coconut cum

it should be labeled as sooo high in potassium that it kills dogs.

The people saying that coconut-milk is different from coconut-cream is different from coconut-water are right, btw.

https://nativepet.com/blogs/health/can-dogs-drink-coconut-water

Potassium-overdose is the standard method for inducing heart-stop, ie in executions in China, & in other cases where medical-heart-stop is required.

Dogs're small, & so the potassium-concentration in coconut-water is more proportional to their entire-bodymass than it would be for the same size drink compared with a human drinking it.

their metabolism's hotter, too,

& there's an entire chemical-family ( which is represented in chocolate, alcoholic-drinks, etc ) which is lethal to many animals but not to us ( dogs, parrots, can't remember if cats, etc. )

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Either way it tastes like it's been in someone else's mouth

Coconut water is the liquid endosperm found in the cavity of the nut. Coco"nut".