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Common Uses of Coconut
1. The main use that most people think is you can eat the fruit of a coconut tree. It can be eaten raw or cooked, rich in minerals, vitamins, and powerful antioxidants. Before eating a coconut, the fruit’s white flesh needs to be separated from the hard outer shell. Then, you can use Coconut in your recipes.
2. When you break the fruit’s hard shell to open it, you’ll find mildly sweet water within with a long list of health advantages. During the summer, this excellent natural drink is highly popular. The water from fresh coconuts has the most fantastic flavor and is sweeter.
3. Coconut oil has become popular in recent years as a result of its distinct and appealing flavor. It’s even utilized as a butter substitute in a lot of recipes. Because this oil has a more significant saturated fat content than olive or canola oil, its health effects are debatable. However, the Lauric acid in coconut oil is beneficial for health because it increases immunity and protects against various ailments.
4. It produces good quality paper pulp. It is used in fruit trays, fans, bags, wastebaskets, hats & mats, and beautiful midrib decors.
5. The hard shell of the coconut fruit is also very useful. It is traditionally used to steam food in homes. Shells are a popular craft material as well. Coconut shells are used to make a variety of beautiful crafts. The shells are simple to color and carve into beautiful art pieces. They’re also used by kids to play with.
6. Its flowers have lots of medicinal uses. They are used as an ingredient in many traditional remedies, especially medicines for new mothers.
7. Coconut husks, leaves, leaf stems, shells, and flower stems are used for fires in many traditional kitchens. In places with many coconut trees, finding the wood for the fire is an easy and inexpensive task.
8. Its leaves have thick sticks which are used to make brooms for houses. It is easy to assemble the sticks and tie them with a thread to make the broom. Many people make coconut brooms for both domestic and commercial use. In this blog, we have explained all the uses of coconut tree and their uses in daily biases. Siddusingh (talk) 07:31, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
- @Siddusingh Where did you get this information? We can't put it in the article without a reliable source. CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 07:51, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
- I got this information from this blog https://infoabouttrees.com/all-about-coconut-tree-images-benefits-uses-and-types/ Siddusingh (talk) 08:08, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
- @Siddusingh Well we can't just republish that, because that would be a copyright violation. Also, blogs are not generally considered to be reliable sources. If you want to change content, please suggest it in a "change X to Y" format, and provide a reliable source. CaptainEek Edits Ho Cap'n!⚓ 08:40, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
- I got this information from this blog https://infoabouttrees.com/all-about-coconut-tree-images-benefits-uses-and-types/ Siddusingh (talk) 08:08, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
- Not done: The proposed text violates applicable copyright policy; please ensure that the suggestions you make are your own work. I'd also direct you to the Manual of Style. Articles are written in an encyclopedic tone. Remember that every contentious claim you make in-text needs to have a reliable source accompanying it. Actualcpscm (talk) 10:02, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
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Lokeswaran Kaliyappan (talk) 09:21, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
Image https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cocos_nucifera_tree.loki.jpg
- @Lokeswaran Kaliyappan: Can you specify where you want this image added and elaborate on your reasoning? Note that the article is quite full of illustrations right now, so adding this image would probably require taking out one that's currently present. Liu1126 (talk) 11:07, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
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change ((protein)) to ((Protein (nutrient)|protein)) 2601:540:C701:C010:70ED:BA15:F651:4C53 (talk) 09:13, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
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