🥥 Coconut

Cocos nucifera

A big, hard-shelled fruit from a palm tree, filled with sweet white flesh and watery juice.

Round and brown with a hairy shell on the outside and creamy white flesh inside.

Mild, sweet, and nutty, with a fresh splash of coconut water in the middle.

Gives healthy fats and minerals, and the water inside helps keep you refreshed.

Drink the water, eat the white flesh fresh or dried, or use coconut milk in cooking.

Grows high up in tall palm trees near warm, sandy beaches.

Grows all year round in warm tropical places.

Coconuts float on the ocean and can drift far to sandy shores, where new palm trees sprout.

A coconut can float across the sea for many weeks and still grow into a new tree.

Coconut grows on trees, and some people who are allergic to tree nuts need to be careful with it.