COCONUT RESIDUE
March 1st, 2002
BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE PHILIPPINE Coconut Authority has developed ways of making coconut flour and oil from coconut milk, nut and jam processing residue. Until now, it has usually been fed to animals; now the authority claims it can make 260 kg of coconut flour and 170 kg of quality oil from a tonne of wet residue.
THE PHILIPPINE Coconut Authority has developed ways of making coconut flour and oil from coconut milk, nut and jam processing residue. Until now, it has usually been fed to animals; now the authority claims it can make 260 kg of coconut flour and 170 kg of quality oil from a tonne of wet residue.
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