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Summary: Shredded coconut meat adds to any recipe. Get tips for using shredded coconut in recipes with this free video all about coconuts.
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"One of the other products that comes from the older coconut, the harder part is what we call shredded coconut which is in this form right here. This has many, many uses one of the great uses for this is people are used to using milk in a lot of the things that they use and eat on a daily basis. And with this coconut you can take a cup of this shredded coconut you can put it in your blender and then you can take two cups of warm water, not hot water but warm water, you can blend that in a blender and then pour that blended juice on a cheese cloth and you can squeeze that and what you end up with is what I call coconut milk. This coconut milk, from the books that I've studied about coconuts, is the next best thing to mother's milk for a baby would be coconut's milk. It has all the nutrients in all the right form ready for an infant if the mother doesn't have breast milk."
eHow Article: How to Use Shredded Coconut