Tastely tested 10 coconut water-here are our favorites

When I was a kid, coconut water was a special enjoyment reserved for restaurants – usually Thai or Vietnamese – which carried fresh coconuts. My sisters and I would ask my parents to please, please, please Please Order one until you agree and get your own coconut. The server would put three young coconuts on the table, all sitting down with all the tops and straw Pulled out. We were happily spoiled, enjoying sweet, refreshing fruit juice and gentle white meat.

My friends, so I was so disappointed when I first tried the packaged coconut water. It was in the mid-2000s, and the jerky coconut water is not like the fresh stuff I drank. Since then, we have come a long journey, and today there are many great packaged coconut opportunities. The question is, which one is worth buying?

To find the best coconut water, our editors took 10 different brands, which are likely to be found in the local supermarket or on the Internet. We put each one in cups and then picked them up in random order without knowing which coconut water was. After tasting the road on 21 various coconut waters, we tabulated the results and crowned a general winner to sip.

The criteria

Of course, coconut water must be sweet, nuts and refreshments. The tropical notes of coconut should be without tasting such as sunscreen or tanned oil and should not be tasteful, sour or musk. It should be clean taste, with a velvety texture that is ever slightly thicker than water.

General winner

Trader Joe is a single -origin organic coconut water

All of our tasters were enthusiastic about coconut water, which had a nice pink color and pleasant sweets. Our leading social media editor wrote: “This has a pure coconut taste I was expecting!” As Kelli, Megan's co-editing director and I both enjoyed the coconut-pre-profile profile. “Maybe the pink that gets me, but it tastes good. More coconut and sweet than the others,” Megan wrote. Similarly, our editorial director Daniel noted: “Good, close to fresh coconut water. Not 100% the same, but cooled to be a fine substitute.”

Second -place

Harmless harvest of organic coconut water

– Sweet! Refreshing! Is this young coconut? Kelli wrote, which is the highest compliment you can give coconut. Although both Daniel and Megan thought they were a little too fruity – Daniel noticed the pomegranate tips, which was not – both agreed that they were not bad, just what they expected of the coconut. Like our winner, Harvest's coconut water has attractive pink shades and natural sweets were attractive to all our tasters.

The racers

• 365 The Whole Foods Market Coconut Water
• C2O coconut water is “the original”
• Goya Coconut -Water Paste
• Harmless harvest of organic coconut water
• Kirkland Signature Organic Coconut Water
• Once a coconut to 100% pure coconut water
• Trader Joe pure coconut water
• Trader Joe is a single -origin organic coconut water
• Vita Coco is the original coconut water
• Vita Coco pressed coconut water

By finishing

From all the coconut water from which we took a sample, only two determined the variety of used coconuts, and from which the coconut comes from: our winner, Trader Joe, is a single-origin organic coconut water and second place, harmless harvest bio coconut water. Both brands use NAM homes from Thailand.

Dr. Niranjana Murty Hosakatte, Botanical Professor of Carnatak University and The genetic diversity of fruits and nutsCoconut water from NAM Hom coconut is “very aromatic” and “bright pink sweet” because of a lot of compounds with polyphenol antioxidant properties, including 2-acetyl-1-pyrrolin (2AP), which gives the refreshing and walnut taste of coconut water. Although coconut water is colorless, when coconut open first, it becomes pink because it oxidizes in the presence of many antioxidant lights.

Manufacturers often paste on coconut water to make consumption safer; However, this process breaks down many volatile compounds that can result in pink shades and aromatic flavors of coconut water. According to Trader Joe's, the only coconut water pasteurization is used by the use of a “high temperature short-term method”. It is also known as high-temperature, short-term (HTST) or Flash pasteurization, and the process includes the temperature between 160-165 ° F (71.5 ° C) for three to 15 seconds, which destroys the bacteria while the TJ is “maintained by the coconut.” However, harmless harvesting does not pasteurize their coconut water at all and uses a micro screening system to sterilize coconut water.

Our editors generally prefer only one component of coconut: coconut water. Brands containing added sugar were often uncomfortably sweet, and those that include ascorbic acid as a preservative often felt like they were too sour. Bottled coconut water is preferred as canned coconut water, tetraPak coconut water last. The reason for this is that the tetrapak coconut water is ultra-pasteurized, which can negatively affect the taste of the drink. Although the ultra-plasturalized coconut-water permeable and drinking it in a pinch, we would all sip fresh, pink, tasteful coconut water, which is as taste as if it came straight from a coconut.

Our testing methodology

All flavors are completely hidden and do without discussion. Tasters taste the samples in random order. For example, tasting may first taste the sample, while the B tasting will first taste the six samples. The purpose of this is to prevent the fatigue of the palate unfairly securing one pattern. The tasters are asked to fill out our tasting pages, which rank the samples to various criteria. All data are tabled and the results are calculated without an input of editors to get the least impartial representation as possible.