A Gift from God- tender coconuts

At a junction on the main road into our village,one can see the coconut vendor who has tied his wares on a bicycle.

The health conscious ones are at his side on the mornings , quick to get their normal drink, while he sips on a hot tea from the opposite tea shop.

I have been told by the elders of the religious kind, who had ears to ones like them, that if God had a choice to make of all his creations and had to finalize his desire for nourishment, he would finish at tender coconuts.

Many a poem has been written on the glories of coconuts, songs sung from tree tops, just a few words more on them.

There was once a question from a kid at a school meeting during a health awareness class, “sweets give us a cold and coconut water gives us a cold, u see any difference?”

I found that to be one of the most ingenious questions asked of me,I took that as a clue to discuss the qualities of a natural product and the similarities to an adulterated misfit, differentiating them with the results of similarities.

Tender coconuts are still economical around here at 5 Rs a nut or 3 for Rs10 depending on the green or the red variety The greens are mineral rich and the reds are the energetic glucose types, I have heard, to some how please a drinker with the natural fluid.

It may sure sound bad taste to promote a God given gift at times of the modern tinned, bottled, paper packed drinks, with such a lot of advertising gimmicks, but I sure like to take my side of stand with Nature’s drink ,than side with the chemical combinations that come out of drink machines, who haven’t found a look alike drink against the tender coconut water yet.

For those who have heard or tried out fasting, of the therapeutic or the religious kind, (not the political ones) most break the fasts with coconut water , wonder how much we need to study to understand the effects of this natural drink.

It is customary in this region if u pay a visit to the farms, they still offer u fresh coconuts with out a straw, but with lots of warmth and affection, to cool a hot body on a summers day.