I got two free bottles of Zico coconut water from Shoprite. I tried drinking it but yuck!!! The pineapple flavored one is a little more tolerable but yuck! Does anyone here like coconut water? If so is it an acquired taste?
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I've known a number of people that drink it, and most don't really like it. At best, they tolerate it.
I forget the brand, but there are lemonade and orange flavors that are pretty good. Of course, that takes away the one real advantage of drinking coconut water: low sugar compared to Gatorade and the like.
Another overpriced "health" trend. Want less sugar? Drink water. Want the same amount of electrolytes for about a quarter of the price? Drink Powerade. Want to waste a lot of money and drink ass juice to tell yourself how healthy and hydrated you are? Drink coconut water.
I forget the brand, but there are lemonade and orange flavors that are pretty good. Of course, that takes away the one real advantage of drinking coconut water: low sugar compared to Gatorade and the like.
Another overpriced "health" trend. Want less sugar? Drink water. Want the same amount of electrolytes for about a quarter of the price? Drink Powerade. Want to waste a lot of money and drink ass juice to tell yourself how healthy and hydrated you are? Drink coconut water.
I remember someone recommended this to me as a hangover cure several years ago. I tried it once and made it through half a can. Its absolutely disgusting.
Zico coconut water is disgusting. There are other brands that taste a lot better. I thought the same thing the first time I had it.
Coconut in general is good for pina coladas and Mounds bars.
Anything else is kinda pushin' it.
Anything else is kinda pushin' it.
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Coconut shrimp is insanely good when done well.
Never acquired a taste for it. To me, shrimp should be done A) steamed, for cocktail, B) on the barbie or C) sauteed. I don't like "fried shrimp" of any kind.
I appreciate the recommendation and, being originally from the south - and having spent a quarter of my military career in Biloxi - I've had the best of the best of the best when it comes to that stuff. Just don't like it.
Bottled water is the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the first world. A completely unnecessary product, costing 1000x more (or more than that) than the almost free water that is available from the faucet. I get it for 3rd world countries where the water supply is iffy or for when on the go, but other than that it's a waste. Most bottled water comes out of processing factories, not from little gnomes filling bottles from secret mountain streams - and, in fact, water quality from the tap is regulated more tightly than bottled water, so the purity selling angle is a myth. Bottled water is also absolute proof of the incredible power of advertising, creating a need where there was not one and capitalizing on it. Handsomely. I'm amazed people fall for this crap.
To say it isn't healthy is a little ridiculous. It has sugar but less than almost anything anyone drinks besides regular water (and less carbs for the most part) and it has a ton of minerals and electrolytes that regular water doesn't have. It also has so much potassium that it is better for your blood pressure than drinking regular water. It shouldn't be a replacement for regular water but is way better for you than fruit juice, gatorade etc.
That being said Zico is gross, get harmless harvest or C20 both are wayyyy better than Zico.
Juice from the coconut is way better than Zico or whatever it's called. That stuff his terrible.
I agree to an extent, but you're overselling it. Bottled water has its uses, and tap water tastes like sh#t in many places.
You sound like a walking, talking coconut water ad. If you like it and don't mind spending the premium, okay. But way healthier than fruit juice and Gatorade ... simply, no.
gatorade is one of the most unhealthy beverages on planet earth.
How so?
If you're worried about sugar, you can water it down, making it even more thirst quenching and about 1/20th the price of the price of coconut pee. Otherwise ... it 's a drink, with electrolytes. There are a lot of other unhealthy things out there I'll worry about before I worry about Gatorade.
To be fair, this discussion was not about taking a beverage an adulterating it. lol.
Sure, watered down, I can rehydrate with bourbon too.
First, all sugar isn't the same. Gatorade is refined sucrose.
Second, as you mention, it's high in sugar. Most flavors are 12g per 10 ounces. Typical 22oz bottle is 25ish grams--of refined sugar.
Third, other than an occasional, sent from the Gods icy cold Coca Cola, I prefer my hydration options not have red 40 or Blue # 12 in them.
Fourth, an inordinate amount of sodium for a drink. If you're running in 100 degree heat, fine. If you're sitting on the couch or driving home from a weight workout at the gym, not so much.
I get that some people don't like the taste of coconut water. But there is no comparison between coconut water and gatorade as a "healthy" beverage.
And the brand I mention above is real coconut water. That shit that Kayne endorses is horse piss.
Coconut water isn't a magical health elixir, it has 6 grams of sugar per cup and lacks certain minerals that people assume it has and is likely best to be drank from an actual coconut to get the full dose of nutrients and healthy hormones like cytokinins, but if you're saying it isn't healthier than juice or gatorade you might as well also believe that a grass fed burger isn't healthier than a Big Mac. It's just a ridiculous stance to try to argue.
I think you'd have a hard time hydrating with bourbon, but a lot of fun trying :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
Watering the Gatorade down cuts the sugar while still providing electrolytes that water won't. So half and half, that sugar becomes 12g per bottle ... which is way less than you'll find in a lot of drinks. I water down everything anymore .. I swear they sweeten things to a hyperactive five-year-old's taste - can't even find decent tart lemonade anymore, it's all sugary sweet.
At first they tried to sell coconut water as offering more hydration benefits than sports drinks. Then all the studies came out and found that it had the same exact benefits as sports drinks, so then the advantage was less sugar, "all natural." Problem is, coconut water tastes like donkey ass sweat. If you're one of the lucky ones who likes it, great. If not, you're choking it down or buying flavored coconut water that has as much or nearly as much sugar as Gatorade.
I will look for that brand you recommended, though - worth a try. I wanted to like coconut water when it first became all the rage, but it really seemed like people were pushing wishful thinking, not actual facts or hard benefits.
I can agree about the colorings, but so many food and drinks have them, I'm not going to worry about the one that has an actual recommended use. I don't drink Gatorade daily, or as a suppertime beverage; I drink it for sports and when I'm hungover or otherwise dehydrated and water won't cut it.
Or when I'm sweating my weight because I waited a week too long on scheduling a new AC install (guess I laughed too loud a couple weeks ago when the weather was perfect .. :)).
Watering the Gatorade down cuts the sugar while still providing electrolytes that water won't. So half and half, that sugar becomes 12g per bottle ... which is way less than you'll find in a lot of drinks. I water down everything anymore .. I swear they sweeten things to a hyperactive five-year-old's taste - can't even find decent tart lemonade anymore, it's all sugary sweet.
At first they tried to sell coconut water as offering more hydration benefits than sports drinks. Then all the studies came out and found that it had the same exact benefits as sports drinks, so then the advantage was less sugar, "all natural." Problem is, coconut water tastes like donkey ass sweat. If you're one of the lucky ones who likes it, great. If not, you're choking it down or buying flavored coconut water that has as much or nearly as much sugar as Gatorade.
I will look for that brand you recommended, though - worth a try. I wanted to like coconut water when it first became all the rage, but it really seemed like people were pushing wishful thinking, not actual facts or hard benefits.
I can agree about the colorings, but so many food and drinks have them, I'm not going to worry about the one that has an actual recommended use. I don't drink Gatorade daily, or as a suppertime beverage; I drink it for sports and when I'm hungover or otherwise dehydrated and water won't cut it.
Or when I'm sweating my weight because I waited a week too long on scheduling a new AC install (guess I laughed too loud a couple weeks ago when the weather was perfect .. :)).
Harmless Harvest Coconut water is the closest thing to drinking water from a coconut. Most of the rest are heat pasteurized, from concentrate, artificially flavored, added sugar, missing nutrients from the coconut, not organic. You should give a try.
http://www.eater.com/drinks/2016/3/18/11222874/taste-test-coconut-water-best
http://www.eater.com/drinks/2016/3/18/11222874/taste-test-coconut-water-best
I find "juice" and "healthier" to be objectionably broad terms for building a substantive argument around. In fact, I'd say they combine for a painfully ridiculous stance.
Vita ... that's the one that makes lemonade and orange flavors. Tried the coffee one for the first time a couple weeks ago and forgot all about it .. tastes good but does not replace a proper cup of coffee : ) I also wondered how much of a hydrating effect the coconut water would have when mixed half/half style with coffee. I guess it's better than a regular coffee if you're dehydrated.
FWIW, the lemonade flavor actually has more sugar than what hudson cited for gatorade above. 15g/8 oz. Not sure about the other flavors, but I'll bet they're around there, too.
I think you don't understand why most people buy bottled water. They're not buying the water, they're buying the disposable bottle. The water is just what comes in the bottle.
They want the convenience of a bottled beverage that they can take on the go. It is just that they prefer the bottle to be filled with water instead of soda, juice, or something else.
I drink Coco Libre - Organic - no sugar added. Shoprite has it - comes in a white paper container - prefer the straight Coconut juice - no Pineapple added.
Yeah, I think I do and I think you're being quite gullible here. Unless you're truly in the wilderness, "on the go" means you're never really far away from a good source of tap water - sure, buy a refillable bottle, but why pay 1000x more than tap water? For the car or bike you can fill up a refillable bottle with tap water and at work, you can grab water from a tap somewhere or a drinking fountain (although even these are being targeted by the big beverage companies). If you're in Mexico or Zimbabwe, ok, I get it, but not in the US.
No, most people who drink bottled water have been brainwashed by some very clever folks on Madison Avenue into thinking that there's something wrong with tap water (there isn't, with rare exceptions, like Flint). They're not buying the bottle - they're buying the image that the advertising companies have spent tons of money crafting. If they were just buying the bottle, they could get refillable bottles for a few pennies and just fill them up with tap water and save a ton of money.
http://www.salon.com/2015/03/14/bot..._the_beverage_industrys_greatest_con_partner/
Your argument just got weaker. At home, okay, you could use a filter system, but out in the world? I'll buy clean-tasting bottled water over filling up my Nalgene in the nearest men's room. Not because I'm a fkn idiot but because it tastes better and some homeless guy didn't just scrub out his ass crack in the sink it came from.
What's wrong with tap water is that it often tastes like sweaty dog balls dipped in metal shavings. Also, permanent water bottles aren't really as convenient as disposable/recyclable ones, which is why we have a whole weird sub-industry of collapsible water bottles.
Not sure you've ever spent much time in Morris county. Tap water tastes like ass. Hardest water that I've ever encountered. At home, I have filters that typically do a pretty good job - and it still tastes like an iron pipe. On the go, if I don't get around to filling my water bottle, I have no hesitation in pulling a bottle of prepacked water out of the fridge.
Congratulations - consider yourself one of the gullible, then. Funny how there was no need for bottled water until Madison Avenue created the need. All kinds of tests have been done of tap water vs. bottled water (about half of which comes from the same sources as tap water) and tap water consistently scores as clean/pure as any bottled water (no surprise, as its regulated more tightly), yet surveys show that opinions of tap water keep getting worse, despite the lack of evidence. Public water fountains are even disappearing for the same reasons. Powerful stuff that advertising.
And your men's room comment, while funny, is a little ridiculous. Most workplaces still have a non-bathroom sink somewhere that people likely aren't rubbing their junk on or do you have the same problem with those sinks and/or water cooler faucets? Don't feel bad - much of modern society uses products we don't really "need" - this is probably the worst case, though.
1. No, I'm not gullible. I drink bottled water when it serves my purposes, which is occasionally.
2. There was no need for electricity and air conditioning until they were discovered/invented and the world realized how much better they were. Obviously bottled water wasn't a revolution like that, but availability was necessary for the world to realize and embrace a convenient and better-tasting alternative to tap water. But maybe you're sitting in hot darkness sending a messenger pigeon to your Internet message board proxy?
3. I didn't comment on purity; I commented on taste. Whether it's as clean or as pure is irrelevant if it tastes worse. You've really never experienced bad-tasting tap water? When my tap water tasted as clean as bottled water, I drank tap water. Now that it doesn't, I drink other things (mostly sparkling water, which, unless I'm missing a conclusion in one of your studies, can't be identically replicated inside my tap).
4. I work from home, so what workplaces have is irrelevant to me. When I'm carrying bottled water, there's usually no guarantee of convenient sinks or water fountains outside of bathrooms. And while my example was exaggerated for fun, I really have no intention of drinking water from a public men's room... unless I'm absolutely dehydrated and don't have a hose to shoot it up the other end.
Since you imply that all tap water tastes as good as bottled water, is the carbon filter industry also one big Madison Avenue artificial creation and figment of our collective imagination, or are people really tasting what they know they're tasting?
I love how someone posts about cocnut water and 10 posts down someone said "youre argument just got weaker"...what argument,,,,,cant people just talk???? bwahahahahahaha
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Everything is a discussion until RU#'s starts getting on his high horse and starts arguments. Love him for the weather and the Don Quixote missions against the staunch republicans on the board, but inserting argumentative points isn't always necessary.
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