Ingredients
100% coconut water from young green coconuts. One ingredient. No concentrate, no added sugar, no acidity regulator, no flavouring.
Nutrition per 100 ml
| Nutrient | Per 100 ml |
|---|---|
| Energy | 82 kJ / 19 kcal |
| Fat | <0.1 g |
| of which saturates | <0.01 g |
| Carbohydrate | 4.9 g |
| of which sugars | 4.9 g |
| Protein | <0.1 g |
| Salt | 0.01 g |
| Potassium | 220 mg (11% NRV) |
From the label and the manufacturer. We have not had this tested ourselves, and if we do, the result goes here.
Specifications
- Contents: 330 ml
- Ingredients: coconut water, 100%. Nothing added, nothing taken out
- Variety: Laguna Tall, young green coconuts
- Origin: the Philippines, bottled where the coconuts are picked
- Kept by: high pressure, never heated
- Storage: chilled, also unopened. Two to three days once open
- Certification: EU organic and Soil Association Organic
- Potassium: 220 mg per 100 ml, 11 percent of the daily reference intake
Rebel Kitchen coconut water, 330 ml
Raw and organic, in the bottle that travels.
- One ingredient: Coconut water. Nothing else.
- Organic: EU organic and Soil Association Organic. No pesticides on the plantation.
- Raw: Never heated, kept under pressure instead. Almost everything on a shelf is pasteurised.
- Bottled at source: In the Philippines, where the coconuts grow.
Size
- 330 ml
- 750 ml
Coming soon
This water has to stay chilled and no ordinary carrier does that. We are talking to a courier who would both collect from the wholesaler and deliver to you. Only once that is settled do we know what it can cost, and until then we are not putting it on sale.
Raw coconut water from young green coconuts, handpicked in the Philippines and bottled on the spot. One ingredient, nothing else.
This is the bottle you take with you: a bag, a bottle cage, the desk beside you. It is also the size you finish in one go, which matters here more than it would for most drinks, because once a bottle is open it keeps two to three days in the fridge and no longer.
The same coconut water comes in a 750 ml bottle, which costs less per litre.
Who makes Rebel Kitchen coconut water?
Rebel Kitchen buys its coconut water straight from smallholders in the Philippines and has it bottled on site. No middleman shipping the coconuts out of the country to be reduced somewhere else. The young green Laguna Tall coconuts are picked by hand and the water is in the bottle within a day.
We did not pick this brand because it is the cheapest, but because it is raw. Never heated.
Almost everything on a shelf is pasteurised, and much of it is made back up from concentrate as well. This coconut water is kept under high pressure instead of heat, which is why it has to stay chilled.
We know of one other brand selling raw coconut water: Upfront. We say so, because a page pretending there is no alternative is not telling you what you need in order to choose.
Open a fresh young coconut yourself and you have something better. Short of a coconut and a knife, this is as close as it comes in a bottle.
Where it differs
Rebel Kitchen
Most brands
The water
Straight out of young green coconuts
Usually concentrate with the water put back
How it keeps
Held under pressure, never heated
Pasteurised, so heated
What's in it
Coconut water. Nothing else
Often sugar, an acidity regulator or flavouring
Where it is bottled
On the islands where the coconuts grow
Mostly in Europe, once the concentrate has been shipped
Why it goes pink
It does that on its own, and we leave it alone
Stays clear, because heat destroys what turns it
How you store it
Chilled, even before you open it
Months in a cupboard
What it costs per litre
More
Less
How does raw coconut water taste, and why is it different?
This water is not pasteurised. Instead of heating it, it is put under high pressure, which extends its life without boiling the taste flat. Heated coconut water tastes sweeter and flatter; this tastes sharper and closer to the coconut.
That is why it has to stay cold, and why we cannot sell it until it can reach you chilled.
Why does coconut water turn pink?
Coconut water from young coconuts turns pink over time. That is a reaction of the antioxidants naturally in it, not spoilage and not a colouring.
Most coconut water never turns pink at all, and not because somebody corrected the colour. Heating it, or reducing it to a concentrate and making it back up, destroys the enzyme the reaction needs. What is left is a drink that stays the same shade because there is nothing in it left to react.
Here that enzyme is still there, so every bottle looks a little different.
How is coconut water made?
Young green coconuts are picked by hand on smallholder farms in the Philippines, where the Laguna Tall is grown. The coconut is opened, the water drawn off, and it is bottled on site.
What does not happen matters as much: the water is not reduced to a concentrate and made back up somewhere else later. That saves shipping weight and costs taste, and it is why most coconut water on a shelf comes from concentrate.
Does coconut water have electrolytes?
It contains them naturally, potassium among them: 220 mg per 100 ml, which is 11 percent of the daily reference intake in a glass. **Potassium contributes to normal muscle function**, and that is an authorised health claim because it has been demonstrated. Because nothing is added or taken out, it is in there as it was in the coconut.
What it is not is a sports drink. Alongside potassium, what you mostly lose in sweat is sodium, and there is little of that in coconut water. For an hour on a bike or after a session this works well. For two hours in the heat you need salt with it.
How long does coconut water last, and how do you know it has gone bad?
Unopened and chilled, until the date on the bottle. Once open: two to three days, in the fridge.
Coconut water that has gone off smells wrong before it tastes wrong: it turns sour and starts to fizz slightly. The pink colour is not a sign of spoilage, which is a different question with its own answer above.