Coconut is the most flexible fruit of all time as all parts of the coconut is essential. Among these, the coconut fruit has biggest factor in the food industry. The fact that most of household are using this magnificent fruit in cooking, we can use it in cooking in a lot of ways. Some of them are by shredding the meat of the coconut fruit and the other one is by making it as
desiccated coconut. Is there a difference between the two? Are they both useful in cooking? From these, we can check and look the difference of the two and see how we can use them in our recipes.
A shredded coconut is typically you grated the meat of the fresh coconut fruit. You can do it in elongated way or flat ways and the moist of its fruit is still there which makes it sweeter and fresh on its taste. Desiccate coconut is fine grated or ground coconut meat. It is drier than shredded coconut with sweetened and unsweetened taste. Assuredly, both of them can be useful in cooking and great condiments on any food. Yes, both of them can be in replaceable or interchangeable by any of the two. Desiccated coconut is very popular in most Asian countries like India and Thailand. They use it in most of their stir-fry cuisines.
Desiccated Coconut Vs. Shredded Coconut
Some of the consumers are confuse between shredded coconut and desiccated coconut. They are almost the same but we can easily distinguish which is which to be use in a particular dish. Here are some aspects to identify both sides.
- In terms of cuts, desiccated coconut is grinded which is best for pastry toppings on cakes, popsicles, ice-cream, donuts breads and even in cereals and more. Desiccated coconut can also be used as porridge to energize your body. It can also be the main ingredient in smoothies. Desiccated coconut can use also in rice cakes as an additive topping to bring out more the flavor of coconut. On the other hand, shredded coconut can be used as a topping because of its beautiful longer cuts, but cannot long because of its moist.
- The texture of desiccated coconut is fine and it is as white as a snow. Shredded coconut has bigger particles and easy to spoil.
- Both of them have the same use but desiccated coconut has longer life span, because it is dried and the moist is removed. Shredded coconut can be use the same as the moisty and good for cooking.
Correspondingly, Greenville Agro Corporation saw these beautiful side of using desiccated coconut that is why, the company created a high-quality desiccated coconut to be used in any food. From the highly standard manufacturing, they make sure that they can offer the safe with full and packed of nutritious desiccated coconut product. Greenville Agro Corporation is one of the main producer of desiccated coconut for more than 3 decades. Indeed, Greenville Agro Corporation is one of the leading exporter of the desiccated coconut in different part of the world.
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