KOH Coconut Water, 8.45 Ounce (Pack of 24)

Really? There are SO MANY different coconut waters out there that it does pay to read reviews. But what's 5 stars to you may not be 5 for me.So having tried about 10+ coconut water brands from Co**co, as well as Amazon, having read the few reviews of this MARKEDLY more costly product, yes PRODUCT (because this is in fact a PROCESSED food) I thought perhaps maybe it was truly "better" in some unknown way, than the others and I ordered it.After drinking several cartons for 3 days, I started having GI issues which are pretty bad. What oh what is new that could bring those old, prior-to-paleo symptoms roaring back? What's new? Is there something different? No...Oh wait, there is.And so here it is, and read carefully as this is kind of complicated. This "100% Coconut Water" that costs around $10 MORE than its competitors in this crowded niche market, lists THREE ingredients. They are: "100% Coconut Water, coconut flavor, Vitamin C".Here we go. Question: if your coconut trees are so wonderful why would you NEED to add 'coconut flavor' to what is, in its natural state already nothing but coconut?Answer: Easy-- we Americans have become accustomed to hyper-flavored processed foods now. Look at the Chip aisle at the store. And because our produce is grown in such poor soil and picked long before it will hit the produce dept. that the consumer correctly perceives that fresh food, from produce to meat, in its truly "unadorned" state to be tasteless. Beef that isn't beefy, a chicken breast as big as a football tastes only vaguely avian, precut vegetables sprayed with citric or ascorbic acid to deter rapid browning, etc etc. We all know the food we eat bears little resemblance to the foods our grandparents grew and thrived on. So in goes the ADDITIONAL who-knows-what's-in-it 'flavor' to compensate.Reading coconut water reviews, you'll see the adjectives yelling out "Bland! Inconsistent! Sour!""This doesn't even taste like coconut!"You'll see other reviews mention how they're going to go ahead and pay extra for a superior product and this is that product. Why?Why does this ACTUALLY, TRULY adulterated coconut water command a higher price? It's because it is BETTER TASTING, more 'coconutty' than ACTUAL UNadulterated coconut water. But we Americans we want everything PURE. Unless of course, it doesn't taste very good. That's when we want it to taste better. But only if it's natural, we don't want anything unnatural, okay? And no preservatives. Preservatives are BAD. But coconut water tastes kind of gross. How can that be? We love coconut candy bars...KOH Coconut 100% Coconut Water tries to reconcile these contradictory consumer demands.So, the ingredients listed in very very small print, say--"100% Coconut Water, Coconut Flavor, Vitamin C."Some people would say, "So what's wrong with that?"There's an inherent logic failure here. "KOH Coconut 100% Coconut Water" is saying here that the coconut water they use to MANUFACTURE the final product is all coconut water insofar as it is 100% coconut as an INGREDIENT-- Are you confused yet by this? No? Then think harder until you see the contradiction here, because in mathematically speaking you cannot have something be more than 100% of anything. It is a mathematical version of "some people are more equal than others" a la George Orwell's Animal Farm.If taste is your sole concern then yes, it does taste good. It is more consistently "coconutty" than the others I've tried, but in the final analysis, I'd say this is a big MISS. Coconut Water right out of the fresh coconut is very often a bit sour, or off tasting. It is not sweet and it isn't very "coconutty" in flavor, and if that's a problem for you, then added coconut flavor that bumps the "coconut" to MORE than 100% will be a good selling point.But if you feel duped by the very subtle deception here, as I did, you're gonna be unhappy with this pricey purchase.In the past 50 years, we have systematically trained our palates to desire, even expect, to be wowed by flavors in a funyuns kind of way. We WANT that explosive taste experience and sure, we'll drop an extra ten bucks to get it. We reason that the added cost must be due to it being a "superior taste experience" (in copywriter parlance).The marketplace is very complicated place now. The KOH Coconut 100% Coconut Water website repeatedly claims that the product is free of additional flavors, preservatives or added sugar. There is no sweetening ingredient listed. But given the sly use of language, I wouldn't take that claim to the bank. And to say it has no preservative is disingenuous because the Vitamin C is almost certainly corn-derived and of course ACTS as a preservative, and "coconut flavor" is made from who knows what, the labeling laws for the US are so screwy that it could be literally anything, so it renders the ingredients list useless. And if John Q. Public runs to the loo for 2 days and with each flush is saying, "I paid an additional ten bucks for THIS?" and then can never hope to identify the offending substance, well, you start seeing food demons everywhere because you have NO IDEA what's going into your body with ANY certainty, let alone 100 PLUS %, right? "Gee, I hope that CSA out in the exurb has some shares left", is what you'll say, while you're looking online for how to make fresh, homemade coconut water at home, because ya can't trust nobody these days.Yeah, bummer.It seems that a person trying to conserve their health these days really can NEVER eat anything they haven't grown, picked and prepared for themselves. Every single thing has to be scrutinized. Every product researched, on and on. It just never stops now because we have already literally down the seeds of our own destruction.When I was young (and STUPID) back in the 80s, I thought the people who were trying to sound the alarms about the coming disasters in our food chain were a bunch of long-haired know-nothing anti-science commune-dwelling hippies.But they were right, and I was wrong. But the genie is out of the bottle now. If you disagree, it's because your autoimmune diseases and your cancers haven't been diagnosed yet.I've learned the hard way. Yeah--ANY TIME YOU SEE THE WORD " flavor", that's your clue. Put the carton down and walk away.Yeah, harsh.********UPDATESeveral years have passed now and here's some more info for those readers of reviews who in reality don't want coconut water that tastes like coconut. Here's a tiny factoid--in the Pacific theater of WW2, medics who were trying to replace the fluids of the wounded who were dying of what's now called hypovelic shock--they were bleeding out--could use coconut water to replace the lost blood volume (assuming the wound could be closed). How do I know this? My father was a medic "lucky enough" to learned this from a Filipino nurse before she was killed. Coconut water has almost exactly the identical electrolytes that humans have too.Since I reviewed that KOH product, myself and my two children did 23andme genetic tasting. The fun stuff is that my teenager who once said, "this St. Emilion has too much lavender," predicted accurately that we are what's known as supertasters. The teenager is now a chef at a very, very expensive and Zagat-rated restaurant and has just had a "foodie mag profile" published about him. His sib works in the arts and said that in grade school the smell over-cooked crucifer veggies coming from miles away caused the picky eating. "Apple pie like Ecstacy or LSD." Sensory overload led to visual art. Meanwhile, I'm now have dubious distinction of being ONE person with six published case histories on pubmed. They all start with titles like "A Rare Case of ABC and LMO," never disclosing the QRS and XYZ or any others.Having once been a ghost writer for a famous, now deceased "talent," I considered contacting a friend who works for a good publisher and asked the world famous surgeon to read my draft. Both had similar opinions--in a world where the trend is to get most people on pot, most people would rather be stoned into ignoring actual life and real medicine. My friend said, "reality is dead. Read "Infinite Jest" again and remember, he hung himself."So, enjoy your coconut water. If my review of this was a drag, relax. When something big happens to you, you probably won't even notice.

While looking for the nutrition label I found two labels: One for a 100ml serving and another for a 200ml serving. The box is 250ml. I can do the math, but why use that info if it's irrelevant? I've tasted a couple of different CWs before and I can't tell a major difference yet. Of course, health-wise this one is supposedly less harmful to the body. I'll take that. I drank one straight and used another one in my smoothie as a substitute for sugary juice. Not a bad taste either way. Package arrived undamaged.

I REALLY wanted to like this product. Having heard coconut water is very good for you I bought this pack, but I wasn't able to finish one container. The size, packaging, and included straw were all above average so I gave 3 stars, but the taste was strange. I suppose I'd been expecting a traditional coconut flavor which wasn't present. I took what was left to a friend and she didn't care for it either. Maybe her daughter will do something with them (perhaps in cooking). I suspect the company product is just fine, and it is simply that I don't like coconut water.

I did not like the price for the size of box. I personally will not buy this size of boxes again. You can buy bigger size of same brand from grocery store which is much cheaper than per each box price.

The product itself is great- our favorite brand of coconut water by far. We ordered 2 cases. Watch the “best by” dates when you receive it- one box (that we had already opened and started drinking) had a date for 5 months prior to the date we ordered/received it.

Water is good, good flavor, and definitely helps prevent cramps, which i get in my legs and feet from running, racquetball. I do not like the little cartons though, tough to suck the last ounce or so out of carton.

Tastes better than most others on the market, but not a good as ones like Harmless Harvest.

Very Tasty .