Coconut water

Cocos nuciferaAlso called coconut juice

Coconut water is a beverage sold canned, chilled, or fresh. Cooks also use it for fermentation.

Category: Drinks
Family: Arecaceae
Cooked most in: Asia
Top country: Indonesia
Dishes: 6 in the catalogue
Energy: 19 kcal per 100 g

Photo: Miansari66 · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use coconut water

Typical ways to cook or use it

Ferment

Preparing it

Bore a hole in the coconut to access the liquid.

Shopping

Choosing and storing coconut water

Sold as: Canned, Chilled, Fresh

Nutrition

What 100 g of coconut water holds

Per 100 g. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.

Protein 16%Fat 4%Carbohydrate 80%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of coconut water
Energy	19 kcal · 79 kJ
Protein	0.72 g
Fat	0.2 g
of which saturated	0.18 g
Carbohydrate	3.7 g
of which sugars	2.6 g
Fibre	1.1 g
Sodium	105 mg
Cholesterol	0 mg

Nutrition per 100 g of coconut water: minerals and vitamins
Potassium	250 mg
Calcium	24 mg
Iron	0.29 mg
Magnesium	25 mg
Zinc	0.1 mg
Vitamin C	2.4 mg
Folate	3 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (food 170174), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

Around the world

Where coconut water is cooked

6 dishes in the catalogue use coconut water. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Asia6

Countries whose dishes use it most

Indonesia 6

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list coconut water among their ingredients.

On the table

Dishes made with coconut water

6 dishes in the catalogue use it.

Ayam goreng Kalasan
Indonesia
Ayam tangkap
Indonesia
Klappertaart
Indonesia
Ayam goreng
Indonesia
Es Poteng
Indonesia
Bacem tofu
Indonesia

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include coconut water.

Around the world

What coconut water is called

Names in 55 languages, from Wikidata.

Spanish
agua de coco
French
eau de coco
Italian
acqua di cocco
Portuguese
água de coco
German
Kokoswasser · Kokosnusswasser · Kokosnusssaft
Dutch
kokoswater
Greek
νερό καρύδας
Turkish
hindistan cevizi suyu
Russian
кокосовая вода
Polish
woda kokosowa
Arabic
ماء جوز الهند الطازج
Persian
آب نارگیل

Show all 55 languages

Albanian
Uji i kokosit
Armenian
Կոկոսի ջուր
Austrian German
Kokoswasser · Kokosnusswasser · Kokosnusssaft
Azerbaijani
Kokos suyu
Balinese
Toya klapa
Bangla
ডাবের পানি
Basque
Koko-ur
Bhojpuri
नारियल पानी
Brazilian Portuguese
água de coco
Burmese
အုန်းရည်
Cantonese
椰水
Catalan
Aigua de coco
Chinese
椰子水
Croatian
kokosova voda
Czech
kokosová voda
Danish
kokosvand
Esperanto
kokosakvo
Finnish
Kookosvesi
Hebrew
מי קוקוס
Hindi
नारियल पानी
Indonesian
Air kelapa
Japanese
ココナッツジュース
Javanese
Banyu krambil
Kashmiri
کھوٗپرٕ ترٛیش
Korean
코코넛워터
Latvian
kokosriekstu sula · kokosriekstu ūdens
Lithuanian
Kokosų vanduo
Macedonian
Кокосова вода
Malay
Air kelapa
Malayalam
ഇളനീർ · കരിക്ക്
Minangkabau
Aia karambia · aia kalapo
Nepali
नरिवलको पानी
Nias
Balalu
Sanskrit
नारिकेलजलम्
Serbian
Кокосова вода
Sinhala
තැඹිලි වතුර, කුරුම්බා වතුර සහ පොල් වතුර
Slovak
kokosová voda
Slovenian
kokosova voda
Swahili
Dafu
Swedish
kokosvatten
Swiss High German
Kokoswasser · Kokosnusswasser · Kokosnusssaft
syl
ꠒꠣꠛꠞ ꠙꠣꠘꠤ
Tamil
இளநீர்
Telugu
కొబ్బరినీరు
Ukrainian
кокосова вода
Vietnamese
Nước dừa

Sources and credits

Data

GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
USDA FoodData Central (Foundation, SR Legacy): nutrition values (Public domain (US government work, CC0))
Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
Wikimedia Commons: photos

Wikidata item: Q633401

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