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Water, flesh, milk and oil are four different foods with four different uses.

The water is an electrolyte drink with real rehydration evidence. The oil is almost pure saturated fat.

Fresh flesh carries about 7 g of fibre a cup, which most people don't expect.

Nārgil reached the Persian world along the Indian and Arabian sea routes and became part of the southern kitchen. Bandari cooks use the milk in fish curries, halwa shops use the shredded flesh, and people drink the water straight from the young green nut. The first thing to know is that each part behaves differently.

Known to botanists as Cocos nucifera.