Few foods have seen the spotlight in recent years as much as the coconut. Since
lingering at the bottom of the fashionable fruit chart, the brown, hairy, and
difficult-to-crack contender has risen to the top, making up for what it lacks
in looks by packing a nutritional punch. Hailed as one of the top superfoods of
2015, sales of coconut-based food have rocketed. Its liquid form has even been
referred to as an "uniquely curative elixir" – indeed, the humble coconut is
certainly having its moment.Once confined to the filling of a Mounds bar,
coconut now comes in an array of forms. Part of of a