You may have seen the most recent new product to hit the market called ‘coconut water’.  Straight from the coconut it is packaged into tetra packs. It’s expensive stuff too….so let’s take a deeper look.

Hailed as ‘the new drink’ on the alkalising market, it is very expensive £2 – 3 for a glassful (thats the mini tetrapack) with the 1 litre up to £5 retail.

It tastes good, but the only thing going for it is that the drink is loaded with Vitamin C at 76%.  It has neglible amounts of Calcium, Magnesium and Iron and has 13mg of Sodium. Calories are at around 20.

The servings per small container of 330mls is 3. So you can multiply those figures above and you get 60+ calories overall for the drink.

You will also notice that it tastes super sweet….the reason for that is because it has had time to ferment.  When this product first came about a few months ago, everyone was starting to drink it. I know of client who drink 1 litre per day…and its tempting, because ‘it must be good for us right?’.   Consider the sweetness again….when you are on an alkaline diet and eating 100% alkaline, it is very easy to determine that the fermented sugars in this drink are actually rotting the blood…and now there is visual evidence to confirm it.

The fermented sugars in packed coconut water are enough to ‘switch off your lights’.   This means that it will increase acidity and stop your white blood cells from functioning so well (if at all).  It will slow them right down.

The best way to drink packed coconut water is to dilute it.  Else, buy the young green coconut.