What Is The Coconut Water Craze All About
If you have not noticed, there is a new product out on the market, Coconut Water. So, What Is The Coconut Water Craze All About?
First off, have you tired Coconut Water? Growing up in Florida and especially south Florida, This Baby Boomer is not too impressed.
Coconut water will probably make the top 10 list of foodie trends for 2010.
Coconut water sales have already tipped the market scale with $60 million and some stores can not keep it on their shelves.
And get this…PepsiCo, Coca-Cola and even Madonna have invested in it.
Coconut Water is very much like clothes styles today. Just reinventions of the old styles of yester-year. In other words…Coconut Water had been there and done that. Most of you Baby Boomers already know that. We have seen it all resurface.
Coconut Water is simply the juice from a young coconut, before it ripens. Those of us who live where coconut grow, have been drinking this for ever.
What Is Coconut Water
Marketers in America are pitching the juice as “Mother Nature’s Sports Drink,” a healthy way to rehydrate after exercise. That really cracks me up!
What Is The Difference
* It is true that coconut water scores higher than a sugary and salty sports drink.
* Cup for cup, it has half the sugar-6 grams~verses~13.
* Cup for cup, it has less calories, 46~versus~63.
* Coconut water boasts way more potassium, 600 mg~verses~37mg.
* Salt-it has 250 mg of sodium~verses~0.
* Cost wise, get out your wallet or credit card, it is coming in at $3.00 a bottle. That is not a Baby Boomer bargain.
Does your Baby Boomer body need it after a workout? If you are really working out, yes, it can give you liquid and hydrate you. BUT…why not go with the top drink, which is water. Water will keep you hydrated, has no calories and costs nothing.
Now, if you are stuck on those carbonated or fizzy drinks, a home carbonation machine makes adding bubbles easy and will soon pay for itself, and these units are eco-friendly. You will not need bottled sodas or juices.
What Is The Coconut Water Craze All About? Try marketing and empty calories and unneeded salt or sodium. Why not buy a young coconut and make your own, without all of the added negativity?
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I have to say that I think you missed the point ENTIRELY.
Drinking water after working out (as you suggest) does NOT replace your electrolytes.
The sweat that comes out of your body when you exercise is NOT pure water. Taste it… it will taste salty, because sweat is high in sodium, and other electrolytes.
This means that when you exercise, you need to replace the electrolytes, as well as the water.
The main electrolytes in the blood are sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, chloride, phosphate, and carbonate.
This can be a serious problem, especially for aging people.
Ever notice when you go to the hospital one of the first things they do to you is put an IV in you with a bag of electrolytes?
I could go on and on, but I think you get the point.
Interesting point Guy, but…
Yes, I know and understand about “electrolytes.” My statement was…why drink what is out on the market when you can drink the real thing with out the sugar, salt or preservatives.
Why not try nature at it’s best?
Why waste containers doing so? How many bottles do you throw away or recycle a week? Times that by all of the billions of people as well… with their bottles.
Hospitals…please, do not get me started. If you have insurance they might put an IV in you A.S.A.P. If not well, after all it is a business like health clubs.
Are you telling me that natural is not better?
What are the possibility that the majority of the American people eat too much salt? Perhaps, that is why their body is expelling it? Sodium is in everything processed that does not make it good for you. On the other hand, whole natural foods are good for you and do not require plastic bottles or need sodium to make them taste good.
Isn’t that why fast foods are so popular? Salty, fried/fatty and sweet is what they serve.
Funny, but I have never seen someone stop by a convenience store before climbing Mount Everest to grab a container, of “Coconut Water” before climbing Mt. Everest.
I could go on and on but I think you get the point.
Sharon
~The Baby Boomer Queen~