Coconut water!!!

ambercole

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How in the HELL do you guys drink this stuff? I have heard lots of good things about it so I bought a Vita Coco at Central Market yesterday. It tastes like drinking water through a sweaty gym sock!!!! YUCK!!! That is all.........

amygibson82

I agree! Its disgusting! I'll stick to my regular water with lemon

BeverageTreats

I think the salty taste is the electrolytes and potassium... Gatorade has the same taste although they added corn syrup and citric acid to try to cover it up.

circusmom

Glad you posted this, I was thinking of trying it!

iwillbeoneday

I actually think it's pretty good. Just don't smell it : )

Seajolly

I actually really love coconut water. :laugh: But it was an acquired taste! I hated it the first 2-3 times I tried it, but kept trying it (different brands, different flavors) until I got used to the taste. For me, the health benefits make me drink it down. I wouldn't drink it on flavor alone, but I do because it's so healthy.

muitobem

A vegan friend of mine says she drinks Coconut Milk...and just LOVES the stuff!

TruckerChick

drink it from an actual coconut.. it tastes different.

TheMaidOfAstolat

I LOVE it! Perfect balance of electrolytes. Also...if it tastes like that...check the experation date. It should taste like coconut, lol.

OttawaJeannie

So glad you posted this. I thought it was just me

I have a case of the flavoured Zico you can buy at Costco sitting my fridge right now and I hate it. LOL! My friend suggested I mix it with water about 1/2 and 1/2 and I drink that after a workout but it's still pretty yucky.

I also tried So Delicious vanilla coconut milk that I have heard Jillian raving about and I can't stand whatever they are using to sweeten it. Yuck.

I find they are both best used when you make your own protein shakes.

taso42_DELETED

That's interesting. I can't really stand coconut, but coconut water is nice. I skeptically tried some once, drunk directly from a young coconut, in Hawaii, and it was delicious (not to mention the electrolytes were exactly what I needed after a 6 hour hike). As always, check the labels. Most of the canned stuff contains a bunch of garbage in addition to the actual coconut water....

Panda_Jack

I agree the unflavored stuff doesn't taste good, but the flavored stuff I can drink. The only time I ever drink it is when I'm doing a long workout anyways and the benefits of it are just what I need to keep going.

theba2il

VitaOne coconut water
-pineapple
-mango
-guava
are very good. I only drink the flavored.

calliope_music

i didn't like it either...so glad i'm not the only one!

melibea

I've had coconuts growing in my backyard all my life (coincidentally, everywhere I've lived, lol) and I've always had the water directly from them. I also love scraping the white part and eating it I don't know how canned coconut water tastes but it might not be the same as from a real coconut.

Maybe try some from the fresh fruit and see if you still don't like it? Oh and eat the white part too, it's delicious! I know not everyone has access to fresh coconuts to do have them all the time, but it's worth a try so that at least you don't live the rest of your life associating them to sweaty gym socks. Ew! lol

becka9266

See even with protein shakes I find coconut water makes it runny and ...sticky. Like cloying, I guess. Not sure the adjective. But it's gross.