What’s the stuff inside coconuts called?

[BeenAndCameBack]

Help settle an argument, please!
What’s the liquid inside a coconut called?

Flesh = white stuff inside brown shell. Coconut water is clear liquid.

Coconut milk is made of the flesh I think.

The liquid inside is coconut water. Coconut milk is made from the flesh

Coconut water

Coconut water and coconut “meat”. Milk is made from the meat. Their’s loads of recipes online.
I’m horribly allergic to it all-vile stuff!

Coconut water

Coconut milk

Coconut water. The milk comes from the flesh combined with the water.

Coconut water. You use the flesh to make coconut milk

It used to be called the milk.

Since coconut milk from soaked squeezed flesh has become popular the clear liquid is now called coconut water ( although it does not contain water) and the water with coconut flesh flavour in in called the milk because it's white.
Genius marketing overall!

Coconut water

Water, as per pp.

We called it water in the 1960s.

@ODFOx

It used to be called the milk.

Since coconut milk from soaked squeezed flesh has become popular the clear liquid is now called coconut water ( although it does not contain water) and the water with coconut flesh flavour in in called the milk because it's white.
Genius marketing overall!

YES!!! This is what I tried to tell my DH! There was a time when the liquid inside a coconut was called the milk, but since marketing the bottled stuff, it has changed!

Agreed, when I was a kid it was always called the milk.

It definitely used to be referred to as coconut milk. However it is definitely referred to as coconut water now. Annoyingly. I dislike altering things just to sell something 😒

It's called water or milk

I think technically the terms are the shell, the white stuff and the wet stuff.

Definitely used to be called milk!

Who got to decide to change it's name?

The coconut police???

I was told it was called "water" in Thailand 29 years ago. I don't think it's a rebrand based on relatively recent marketing.

20 sorry not 29

and I agree with the poster above^ that the flesh is called the meat.
Why? Dunno, it just is.

If the coconut water was called the milk though, what was the coconut milk called ? Are you saying that didn't exist ?

And to the poster who said it doesn't contain water, how can it not contain water ? Surely any juice from a fruit contains water ?