Natural Farming Vietnam

🥥 Product Name: Dwarf Coconut (Dừa Xiêm) each

Scientific Name: Cocos nucifera var. nana

👉 Harvest Date: ~6–7 months after flowering for young drinking nuts (tree itself first fruits at 2.5–3 years, then yields every 45–60 days per bunch cycle)

💚 Natural flavors: Light, delicately sweet and nutty water with a clean, refreshing finish. The creamy coconut aroma comes mainly from gamma-nonalactone ("coconut lactone"), a natural compound giving it fatty, milky, buttery notes.

🍳 Recipe Suggestions:

1. Cookpad: https://cookpad.com/vn/tim-kiem/d%E1%BB%ABa%20xi%C3%AAm
2. Run Away Rice: https://runawayrice.com/?s=coconut

👩‍🍳 Nutrition Value:

1. USDA: https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/food-search/?query=coconut%20water
2. Nutritionix: https://www.nutritionix.com/food/coconut-water

Note: dwarf coconut (dừa xiêm) is a distinct cultivar from tall coconut — smaller fruit, thinner shell, sweeter/more abundant water, and it's the variety Bến Tre is known for.

🩺 Medicinal value: In Vietnamese folk tradition, coconut water has long been valued as a natural hydrating drink, with folk use to help replenish fluids and electrolytes.