One of the desserts listed in our Raw Food Detox book is “Coconut Cleanse.” All you do is drink the water of a young coconut. We decided to try it and found one at our local grocery store. Opening it was quite a feat, and we weren’t expecting to have to work that hard. After 10 minutes of hacking the top popped off and we stuck straws in to drink the water. I’m not sure why, but we expected it to taste like the “normal” coconut milk (like the ones in the background of the picture). Not so! It was cool and refreshing, but didn’t really taste like sweet coconut. It was slightly salty and bitter with a mildly sweet aftertaste. I think it would be a good alternative to Gatorade after a hard work out, but Ryan thinks it would be a good drink only if you were stranded on an island.
