Saturday, November 27, 2010

Benefits of Young Coconut Water for Health & Beauty

A person knows about a young coconut water is that the young coconut water can quench the thirst of people. Getting people back fresh after the thirst and fatigue. But then not only limited to that. Young coconut water instead have a lot of valuable content for health and beauty. What are the ingredients? What are the benefits?
According to Dr. Inayah Budiasti S, MS SpGK, nutrition specialist from Hang Lekiu Medical Centre, Kebayoran Baru, South Jakarta, coconut trees including a multipurpose tree. Fruit and water can be consumed, the leaf can be made leaf decoration or as a skin diamond. Ordinary rural people use coconut tree trunk as a bridge. After the fruit and the water is consumed, shell can be used as a charcoal burner. Juice processed into oil.
Coconut fruit has many benefits, among others, treating various diseases. "Coconut water either consumed by pregnant women because it is believed to make the baby skin to be white and clean," explained Dr. Inayah. Additionally, coconut water can also be made as a nata de coco and soya. Nata de coco can be consumed as fresh with a mixed cocktail drinks, fruit ice, or successor to and fro. And this same coconut water can be made by mixing soy sauce with soy, brown sugar, garlic, walnut, bay leaves, galangal, kluwak, and sodium benzoate.
There are micro and macro content in coconut water. Macro elements contained in coconut water is the carbon and nitrogen. Elemental carbon in the form of simple carbohydrates such as glucose, sucrose, fructose, sorbitol, inositol, and others. The element nitrogen in the form of a protein composed of amino acids of coconut water is higher than amino acids in dairy cows. In addition to carbohydrates and protein, coconut water also contains a micro-mineral elements needed by the body. Minerals are, among others, potassium (K), sodium (Na), calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), ferum (Fe), cuprum (Cu), phosphorus (P), and sulfur (S). Mineral content in coconut water body is needed as a replacement ion. No wonder, after people drank coconut water, his body refreshed.
Coconut water also contains many vitamins, among others, vitamin C, nicotinic acid, folic acid, pantothenic acid, biotin, and riboflavin. No wonder the coconut water is also used as ingredients of traditional medicine as well as beauty. Besides minerals, coconut water also contains sugar (vary between 1.7 to 2.6 percent) and protein (0.07 to 0.55 per cent). Because such a nutritional composition, coconut water used as raw material for food products. "In the Philippines, coconut water used for beverage manufacturing processes, jelly, alcohol, dektran and vinegar," he added.

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