Copra
the Sprouted Coconut
The coconut is one of the most powerful sprouts in the world it can
lay dormant for many years and still sprout. It can float for 3 months in the salty sea
and land on a sandy shore and still sprout up. Coconut Trees in their lifetimes produce as
many as 10,000 nuts. Each nut contains a layer of meat, about a pint of water, and a tiny
pearl sized seed. After sitting for many moons in the tree (up to 6 months or more) the
coconut drops to the ground and the tiny pearl begins to absorb the water. After many
months the tiny seed fills the coconut and begins consuming the meat which becomes coconut
butter as this happens the meat is reduced to a thin crisps layer. The final result a big
sponge like cotton candy mass that is sweet and juicy. This food was so powerful that in
the hawaiian islands only the Alii (the kings) could eat it and they would share the mana
(energy) with hundreds of people. This food is so filling that a one inch cube of it
satisfies like eating a huge salad and a few avocados. The Coconut Butter or Oil is so
soft and creamy that it is makes an excellent lotion or massage oil and can also be use to
soften hair. It is also delicious to eat. This is one of the finest foods created and is
the largest edible sprout we have encountered.
Sapodilla aka Chiku aka Tree Potato aka
Cinnamon Sugar Fruit aka Maple Apple
This delicious member of the sapote family tastes like vanilla
cinnamon brown sugar and has the texture of a persimmon crossed with a soft pear. They
come into season in February and go all through April. They come in 2 varieties a round
kind that is white inside and an oblong kind that is brownish red inside. Both are
delicious and contain small black seeds. They grow in warm tropical and sub-tropical
climates. The Sapodilla is a member of the Saponacce Family along with Eggfruit, Mamey
Sapote, and Mamey Apple. These fruits are very sweet and contain high amounts of Iron and
a wide range of minerals. The Fruit looks like a pointed Kiwi and is eaten when soft. If
eaten unripe it contains high amounts of sapponins similar to tannin which dry out the
mouth. When picked they leak a small amount of white sap out the top which makes excellent
gum and is the base for chiklets gum from the south pacific name chiku.
This informations comes to us courtesy of Jeremy Safron.
Jeremy Safron is the author of The Raw Truth, Raw Living, &
Dining from an Empty Bowl and is the originator of Raw Experience Restaurants & Dragon
Yoga. Jeremy has been involved in the living food movement for over 10 years and the
martial art world for almost 20 years. As a Living foods health practitioner Jeremy has
educated and assisted many people in healing and changing their lives with living food and
through the use of food as medicine. Jeremy is a certified Iridologist and Living Foods
counselor and studied personally with Dr Ann Wigmore. Jeremy has led workshops and
seminars for over 500 people and has pioneered many new ways of expanding the use of body,
mind and spirit. Jeremy is a dedicated teacher and believes that good questions and
dedication lead to true mastery.
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