Originally Posted by
ptquilts
How would you distinguish between coconut milk and coconut water? They're both beverages.
You just brought back a childhood memory ... Every once in a while my Dad would treat us, and buy a coconut, cut it open and we would drink the water, and the best part ..... scoop out the coconut!! Oh that was SO good!!!
Coconut water is the natural liquid you get when you open a coconut.
I would suspect coconut water, purchased without the coconut, is processed to some extent, in order for it to keep. Perhaps with some additives? Perhaps the nutrient contents change? I don't have the answers, just questions I would ask.
Coconut beverage is a processed product, like almond, soy, oat, rice, etc. drinks are.
They all make me "cringe" with the word milk added to them. Just so not true.