You see them everywhere in the Dominican Republic! You cannot miss them! Thousands of palm trees across the country giving meaning to a truly tropical island and providing not just great shade and a place to sling your hammocks but a real life generating source of goodness! Forget the Gatorade and Red Bull, Coconut Water is what you should be drinking as it is the best cure for a holiday hang over!! Find out why our Caribbean cousins have been drinking this stuff for centuries.Some Fast Coconut Facts!
Coconut water is a natural isotonic beverage with the same level of electrolytic balance that we have in our blood! Amazing and true!
So true in fact that during the Pacific War of 1941-45 both fighting sides regularly used coconut water siphoned directly from the nut to give emergency plasma transfusions to wounded soldiers!
In many parts of the world the coconut is known as “the tree of life”.
Coconut water is more nutritious than whole milk-less fat and NO cholesterol!
Coconut Water is more healthy than orange juice – much fewer calories!
Coconut water is a universal donor-it is identical to human blood plasma!
Coconut water contains more potassium than most sports drinks and most energy drinks, coconut water 294mg and energy drinks 117mg!
Coconut water is biologically pure, full of natural sugars, salts and vitamins to ward off fatigue and holiday hang-overs!!
Of course the Dominican people have known these wonderful facts for years, that’s why when you are out and about anywhere in the Dominican Republic from north to south of the island you will see Coco Frio Vendors, selling chilled coconut water. Go and try some, they will just chop off the top of the coconut and plop in a straw! Drink, enjoy and appreciate the Dominican Water of Life!
