Coconuts

=__The Coconut, Patrick Ferreira.__= The coconut palm is a member of the palm family. The word coconut can refer to the entire coconut palm, the seed, or the fruit. The term coconut can refer to the entire palm, the seed or the fruit. The term coconut, comes from the 16th century Portuguese and Spanish cocos, meaning 'Grinning Face', The name comes from the three small holes on the coconut.

The coconut is found throughout the tropic and subtropic area. It is know for its great versatility, it is used in many domestic, commercial, and industrial products all over the world.

__The uses of a coconut:__

 * __Culinary use:__**

The various parts of a coconut have lots of culinary uses. The seed provides oil for frying, cooking, and making margarine. The coconut meat is used fresh or dried in cooking and desserts. Coconut milk is used in curries and other savoury dishes. Coconut flour can be used in baking, to combat malnutrition. Coconut chips have been sold to tourists in Hawaii and the Caribbean. Dried coconut is also used as the filling for Bounty chocolate bars.


 * __Commercial, industrial, and household use:__**

The coconut has a numer of different commercial, industrial, and household uses like;

Coir (the fibres from the husk of the coconut) is used in ropes, mats, brushes, sacks, caulking for boats and as stuffing fibre for mattresses. It is also used in potting compost.

The coconut fronds are used for making brooms in india, indonesia, malaysia and the philippines. The fronds also provide material for baskets that can draw well water and for roofing thatch, they can also be woven into cooking skewers, and kindling arrows.

Copra is the dried meat of the seed and