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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Lifestyle
Nicholas Jordan

Australian supermarket coconut water taste test: ‘Smells like an island holiday’

Writer Nick Jordan sitting in a cane chair on a balcony, with a flower draped over his ear. He is sipping from a coconut, and laid out in front of him on a table is an assortment of bottled coconut waters.
‘Other than being comically overhydrated, I had no idea what to expect from this taste test’ … Nicholas Jordan drinks his way through coconut water. Photograph: Rémi Chauvin/The Guardian

I have a fear of coconut products. Like all fears it’s based on a questionable rationale and trauma, and my trauma is taste testing “health” coconut-heavy products that taste like soap. Which is why, until recently, almost all the coconut water I’d drunk was from a straw reaching out of a fresh coconut.

Surely there’s no way a bottled coconut water, made from 100% coconut, could be that bad. Maybe it could be better than the real thing? I enjoy Melona more than the average honeydew melon. Other than being comically overhydrated, I had no idea what to expect from this taste test.

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