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Importance of Topic to Practice
Coconut water is being heavily marketed as a “natural” oral rehydration product in developed countries and has been consumed for centuries in tropical and subtropical areas. Coconut products have been prominent in Indian folk and Ayurvedic medicine for thousands of years (1). In remote tropical areas where it provides an acceptable, sterile and widely available source of fluids and electrolytes (especially when supplemented with salt), it has been used to provide