Two groups under the Department

Two groups under the Department of Agriculture see the big capacity for coconut water to emerge as a healthy opportunity to tender beverages.

Ofero Capariño PhD, leader of the Bioprocessing Engineering from the Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PhilMech), said that while young coconut water is tremendously sweeter, water from matured coconuts had extra electrolytes like potassium, sodium, magnesium, calcium and phosphorus.

Also, pasteurized coconut water can last up to 21 days.

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“Three to four hours once you open the nut, coco water will start to ferment. After six hours, the wonder will begin to degrade making it bitter. But whilst chilled, it is able to last up to 3 days. But what we need is to prolong it more by undergoing pasteurization beneath boiling factor of water for 1 minute. By doing so, the pasteurized coco water can last 21 days saved beneath chilled situation,” Capariño defined.

The temperature encouraged for pasteurization ranges from 132 to 149 levels Celsius.

PhilMech and the Bureau of Agricultural Research (BAR) had been cooperating in the challenge to broaden the era, corporation gadget and advertising for coco water. Capariño stated the capability quantity of coconut water that could be recovered in the Philippines become approximately 2.4 billion liters consistent with 12 months.

From 2013 to 2015, via the undertaking “Development and Performance Evaluation of a Village Level Coconut Water Processing System,” Capariño’s group at PhilMech advanced a village stage coconut water processing device able to processing 2,000 nuts into about 2,000 350-milliliter bottles according to day.

In 2016, Capariño’s institution, together with mission leader Gigi Calica PhD, senior science research professional from PhilMech, carried out the mission “Pilot Testing of Coconut Water Processing
Enterprise in Selected Areas of the Philippines,” funded by means of BAR through its National Technology Commercialization Program.

She stated the objective of the challenge become to pilot take a look at the PhilMech-advanced village stage coconut water processing machine incorporated to a virgin coconut oil (VCO) processing center.

Capariño stated that the derivative of harvesting coconut water changed into coco meat, which can be processed into VCO.