Choose a brown, hairy coconut that feels heavy and sounds like it’s full of juice when you shake it. Dark brown coconuts are best, as they are older with drier, firmer meat which grates best. If ...

Not the hard, brown, hairy coconut, but the young, green-skinned, smooth coconut, filled with sweet coconut water and soft, tender coconut meat. ''The coconut tree gives shelter, food, water and fuel, ...