The coconut water
conundrum?
Any technological or
scientific modification in any aspect of agricultural process introduced to
enhance production, to fulfill the excessive demands of consumption due to ever
growing population, especially at cultivation stage may have at least some side
effects and may also alter certain metabolic structures but it is wise to
adopt, among the many options, those technological or scientific processes
which enhance with minimum negative impact in terms of side effects.
Of late I came to know through some villagers that they get
big tender coconut with lot of coconut water in it and that too they are able
to harvest it within 30 to 35 days.
There is a practice almost for more than 3 decades wherein
insecticides for coconut trees are injected through the roots along with many
other minerals and vitamins because it is more effective and through osmosis it
ensures that all parts of the tree are protected because spraying insecticides
especially for coconut tree leaves is difficult.
So, this process is adopted more in areas where the leaves
become dry and vulnerable to insects which make many holes in leaves and render
all leaves almost dry, brownish and with multiple holes and rendering
chlorophyll depletion.
But according to reliable sources that there were gadgets
some years ago which studied the presence or absence of toxic insecticide
present in tender coconut water of such trees and it was advised to farmers
that they must preferably harvest them only after 50 days to ensure that the
toxicity levels are either low or nil.
However, to my knowledge there
has not been any study done on how these externally injected pesticides
metabolize inside and what compounds they create? Because I suspect consuming
tender coconut water as a very good thing for kidney due to the presence of
some things like excess of Celica and some similar compounds may end up causing
kidney stones.
Some villagers have a very interesting habit, out of some
rural wisdom and may not be scientifically proven, of gulping down a cup of
diluted lime juice or a few tea spoons of raw lime juice after consuming tender
coconut water to neutralize the side effects of such chemical compounds!!! I
really do not know much less understand the wisdom of this practice.
I would like the scientific community to enlighten on this
as in present day while there is one section which is totally careless about
their health and become sponsors of health care industry and another section
who are health and fitness freaks who consume whatever is labeled as good for
health, mostly in large quantities too. When people consume tender coconut
water in good faith and end up with kidney stones it really hurts, instead they
would have been better off drinking beer.
Are Auxin, Cytokinins, Gibberellins injected and if so has
any scientific study conducted about how they metabolize inside the coconut
water and ultimately what further metabolism takes place inside the human body.
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