Coconut nectar, coconut products Dong Go Center. The center has conducted research on methods of collecting and processing of products from coconut nectar, opening up new avenues for the development of Ben Tre coconut trees.
From time immemorial, fresh coconut water is one of the beverages are rated very highly by the sweet taste of cool, fresh. Today, we know there are palm trees add a quintessential product, sweet, nutritious, it is the nectar of coconut (coconut sap). It is the product of the coconut Copper Center Go - Ben Tre; center has performed research on methods of collecting and processing of products from coconut nectar, opening up new avenues for the development of Ben Tre coconut trees.
Coconut nectar is obtained from corn resin flowers blooming yet young coconut (also called a sheath). To stimulate bile flow out, every day 2 times removed knifing a period of about 3-5 mm inflorescence wounded, pull inflorescence slowly bent down and fixed cord, used in conjunction with baseball type inflorescence light surrounding a sufficient force to injure the vascular lightweight plastic inside until the honey flow out, using improvisation average player directly into the flower to collect honey. Then at least 2 times per day to keep a piece of inflorescence removal to new wounds and play continues until all flowers. On average, each inflorescence can be harvested in about 30 days, each palm tree can be obtained confidential for 6 months continuously.
Coconut nectar yields vary depending on varieties and cultivation conditions, high local varieties (strawberry coconut, coconut one) can be harvested per day on average 1 to 1.3 liters. In Ben Tre coconut nectar, about 15% sugar, minerals, vitamins and acids a-min.
Can coconut nectar fresh drinking as a beverage, can be fermented for processing into wine or liquor distilled into high-level, or can be condensed into syrup, sugar substitute to use sugar cane .
According to researchers in the Philippines, coconut sugar has a low Glycemic Index (GI = 35), very beneficial to human health, especially can be used as food for people with diabetes.
By taking advantage of his own accord coconut again to make a breakthrough in improving the value chain into life.
