• Rothe@piefed.social
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      12 hours ago

      Yeah, I know it is a joke and all, but coconuts doesn’t have hairs or contain milk, so that particular example doesn’t undermine “morphology-based phylogeny” at all.

      • Mr. Semi@lemmy.world
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        1 day ago

        This is not an equivalent process to extracting juice from a fruit.

        Saying coconuts have milk is akin to saying oranges have marmalade.

        Or more accurately, that oats or almonds have milk.

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            24 hours ago

            It literally is not the same process. 🤦‍♂️

            Seriously you bucket of derps, the answer to this is the simplest of internet searches away, but I guess I understand why you would prefer to remain ignorant and confident in your mistaken assumptions about the world rather than risk learning that you don’t actually know everything intuitively.

            I eagerly await you attempting to explain how shredding notably dry and juiceless coconut flesh and stewing it in hot water to extract and emulsify the fats is somehow equivalent to just squeezing a fruit for the juice.

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                24 hours ago

                And coconut water has precisely nothing to do with the production of coconut milk.

                Even your own quote mentions the coconut pulp. Try reading the rest of the article, and also the article on coconuts themselves.

                Coconut milk is produced from flesh of mature coconuts, which is referred to as leathery.

                I’m curious as to what about that term strikes you as particularly moist and juicy?

                Coconut water is produced from Young coconuts, before the pulp hardens.

                Seriously. Get a grip and read more than the precis.

                • pulsewidth@lemmy.world
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                  11 hours ago

                  I’m so sorry that you have chosen to argue with people who have little knowledge but have decided they do.

                  Coconut milk and coconut water are distinct products. Coconut water is just the liquid from the center of a (usually green) coconut, its unprocessed. Coconut milk is more an analogue to to soy milk than fruit juice, it is heavily processed by blending the pulp of the fruit with coconut water and added ingredients.