Ma Qianhui, a reporter from Henan Business Daily
This year, coconut water once again burst the internet. On the one hand, the single raw coconut latte launched by Luckin has refreshed the brand sales record and appeared to be in short supply, setting off a boom in self-made raw coconut lattes on the Internet; on the other hand, the coconut brand coconut juice that once monopolized the coconut juice market was punished for bad advertising, and coconut juice rookie brands such as Special Soldiers, Wang Laoji, and Fino frequently challenged it.
What kind of coconut water is more worth buying? Henan Business Daily United Town Mang Technology, from Jingdong, Tmall and other channels, purchased the Happy Home, Special Soldiers, Coconut Tree, Mei Juice Source, Wang Laoji, Pan Pan, Fino, LockFun Le Kefen, Frozen Face Code, ChengYangJi, Coconut Yutang, hellococo, Jingshi, Coconut Valley, Tropical Impression, First Class Coconut, Coconut Juice Island, Coconut Wei, Bai Xiaonan, Coconut Cow and other 20 brands of coconut milk sold on the market, and evaluated its calories, coconut content, coconut source, additives and other aspects.
Evaluation dimension: natural
LockFun, Fino, Frozen Face Code, Kyoshi, coconut valley have higher coconut content.
In terms of ingredients, only the Mei Juice Source and Wang Laoji brands have replaced coconut water and coconut gravy with coconut milk.
In terms of additives, these 20 coconuts are basically added with emulsifiers such as sodium caseinate, sucrose fatty acid esters, and monostearate glycerides to help coconut milk better emulsify. Among them, Happy Home and Lucky Cofen added sucralose and sodium carbide respectively, and panpan brand's raw coconut juice contains flavors.
Trivia
According to Li Li, head of the Food Big Data Research and Development Center of the Machi Mang Research Institute, coconut water comes from natural green coconut; coconut gravy is a liquid mixed with coconut water and coconut meat; coconut meat is added with water and sugar, it becomes coconut milk; coconut milk becomes coconut milk after dehydration, and coconut milk is similar to the concentrated recovered fruit juice that consumers often drink. In terms of quality, coconut milk is not as good as natural coconut water and coconut gravy. "The higher the amount of coconut gravy or coconut water, the more cost-effective it is." Li Li said.
Sucralose, as a sweetener, may cause changes in insulin and blood sugar levels. As for sodium metabisulfite, it mainly plays a bleaching, antiseptic, antioxidant role in food, and has a strong stimulating effect on the eyes and respiratory mucosa when exposed to a large number of people.
"While it's safe to add to a reasonable range, it's recommended that you choose coconut products that don't contain sucralose and sodium metabisulfite." Li Li said.
Evaluation dimension: Calories
Each brand of coconut water is calculated according to 100ml, and the heat level of each brand is ranked. Take Coca-Cola's calories of 43kcal/100ml as a benchmark for comparison.
Only the two brands of Happy Home and Coconut Wei have lower calories than Coca-Cola, of which Happy Home has the lowest calories.
The other 18 brands have higher calories than Coca-Cola, while the frozen face code has a calorie of 68.56kcal/100ml, which is the highest calorie, equivalent to nearly 1.6 times the calories of Coca-Cola.
According to Li Li, according to the calories consumed by a person jogging for an hour, drinking a bottle of frozen face code requires about 20 minutes of jogging to consume all the calories ingested.
Evaluation dimension: taste
Pour all the coconut water into the cup and we invite 8 evaluators to blindly test in turn and calculate the average score.
Fino's new coconut juice scored the highest, followed by first-class coconut water, white nan old coconut juice, Pan Pan sheng squeezed coconut juice, coconut Wei Thai pulp coconut juice, happy home raw coconut juice.
Coconut Beef Refreshing Coconut Juice scored the lowest.
Evaluation dimension: Price
Coconut brand coconut juice ranks as the "most affordable" at a price of 3.8 yuan / bottle (245g).
LockFun and Frozen Face Code, which have the highest coconut content, are priced at 9 yuan / bottle (290g) and 14.33 yuan / bottle (330g), respectively, which is much higher than other brands.
Summary of the assessment
After the comprehensive evaluation of the three dimensions of implementation standard, quality standard and sensory standard, the preferred index (DCI index) of 20 coconut juice products was obtained, and the products with the highest comprehensive quality ranking were: Fano New Coconut Juice, Coconut Coconut Juice, First Class Coconut Head and other coconut water.