I don’t remember exactly when coconut water became all the rage — a couple of years ago? I bought a couple of brands from the grocery store. Y U C K. They were bitter. They barely tasted like coconut. I really didn’t get the hype and decided not to waste any more money on the stuff.<\/p>\n
Fast forward to this summer. I was wandering around a Trader Joe’s on my way to work, planning to grab a few work lunches and maybe some non-perishables for home. One of the things I like about Trader Joe’s is the sample station. On this day, they were using their coconut water and frozen tropical fruit to make smoothies. I didn’t want a smoothie — I wanted to try the coconut water. So Sample Lady pours me a little dixie cup — and I liked it! I was surprised, based on my previous experience. I could taste coconut, it was lightly sweet rather than bitter, and it was thirst quenching. Wow — maybe THIS is what all the hype was about?<\/p>\n
One warning — this is a minimally processed product and highly perishable. You are supposed to use it within two days of opening. I don’t know what bad things happen if you don’t, but we drank it within the window, so I didn’t find out \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Standard caveat<\/strong>: This is a personal recommendation. Trader Joe\u2019s doesn\u2019t know I exist and has provided neither product nor compensation for this endorsement. In fact, they\u2019ll probably sue me if this ever gets in a search engine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I don’t remember exactly when coconut water became all the rage — a couple of years ago? I bought a couple of brands from the grocery store. Y U C K. They were bitter. They barely tasted like coconut. I really didn’t get the hype and decided not to waste any more money on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-product-recommendation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013-10-08-22.02.03.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ImYM-j8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1224,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions\/1224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}