![]() ![]() How often do Coconut Tappers have to climb their trees?Ĭoconut tapping, or harvesting the sap, is a very hands-on technique – at the top of the tree! The Tappers will tap the trees twice a day when making coconut vinegar and four times a day when making coconut nectar. Coconut tappers in The Philippines climb their coconut trees each day to collect the sap. Instead, the tap (a hollow tube of bamboo usually) is simply positioned to collect the sap which drips from the flower when a cut is made. Yet ‘tapping’ also isn’t akin to the tapping you may think of with Maple trees. ![]() It’s this glorious sap, which is a naturally sweet substance, which makes it ideal for products such as coconut vinegar, coconut nectar, coconut aminos and coconut sugar. ![]() Coconut tapping refers to the process of collecting the milky white sap from the flower blossom, not the coconut itself. Coconut tapping is quite different entirely.Ĭoconut palms are flowering trees (yes the coconut is kind of a fruit). Your first thoughts may conjure up someone mystically tapping on an actual coconut in some near-magical process of judging ripeness. Tap, tap, tapping?įirst of all, let’s quickly explain how Coconut Tappers get their name. It may leave you in awe, but it’ll certainly leave you sure that from tree to plate, we bring you the good stuff. Here we dive into what we discovered about the process of collecting coconut sap from the flower blossom (or spadix) of the coconut tree. Working directly with the Coconut Tappers, the incredible farmers who collect the coconut sap that goes into every splash of coconut vinegar, every squeeze of coconut nectar and every sprinkle of coconut sugar, we felt they were best placed to give us the lowdown. That’s why we recently asked some questions of our partner in The Philippines. It matters to our ethics, it matters to you, but we also know it’s fascinating. We want to know what’s involved, what a farmer does, and how the whole process works. We’re not just talking about the product itself. We really care about what goes into our products at The Coconut Company. ![]()
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