Coconut History

The origin of the coconut has been long debated but historians say that the origin of the coconut most originated from Indonesia where the traces of the coconuts were tracked through records. It was said that the coconuts were travelled by the early people that inhabit the islands within the tropic of cancer and the tropic of Capricorn. The forms of the coconut transport was either through human intervention of through the flow of the coconuts from shore to the sea, then travelling across the ocean to reach another land to flourish. 

While the origin of the coconut has been debated, there are records that will prove the travels of the coconut. It was since the personal travel of Antonio Pigafetta, a Venetian nobleman who boarded one of the five ships of Ferdinand Magellan. As the travel of Ferdinand Magellan reached the shores of Guam, they were faced with the native tribes of villagers who have had coconuts as weapons, coconuts as masks, and coconuts as their armors. When they reached landfall, they were confronted with these people who greeted them. They resupplied with coconuts as food and drink. They were so impressed with the strange fruit that they carried enough to be transported back to Spain. Pigafetta even wrote that a family of ten can be sustained by merely two coconut trees. And the trees would last 100 years.

The continual spread of the coconut was fast where Marco Polo even mentioned the existence during his travels. The coconut was even referred in Egypt as the “Pharaoh’s Nut” during the travels of Marco Polo. The fast widespread of the popularity of the coconut flourished a new form of industry within Europe. The demand for coconut flash was the result of the bloom of the sweet treats.

Today, the coconut is even referred to as the tree for the soul because of the sustenance that it can give to whoever wishes to grow and nurture it.