Greetings natural medicines enthusiasts,
Do you like to get drunk while enjoying its health benefits? Today I'm sharing with you our local drinks which we call TUBA or coconut wine. In this blog, I'll be showing how my neighbour extracted a TUBA juice from a coconut tree.
This is my neighbour Carlito every morning he climbs up the coconut tree to check on his sugong (bamboo container) with him going up is his sangot (sickle).
Above he cuts the flower so the tuba juice can flow (tuba flows very very slowly so you have to be patient).
This is what it looks like above and guess what I climb it myself to show you. Don't worry I'm all safe when I get down.
Here's my free and fresh TUBA
I just strain the huge particle of the flowers that goes with the juice and took a photo and am ready to drink.
According to http://www.wattalyf.com/coconut-wine-benefits/?fbclid=IwAR0pkh5sgi5C53062dkRlBZUW7eXltnb5Ru9O-fzAKvch0xICPyeGuz4yW4
Here are benefit of drinkingTUBA.
- Promotes Longevity.
- Reduces Heart Attack Risk.
- Lowers Risk of Heart Disease.
- Reduces Risk of Type 2 Diabetes.
- Cuts Risk of Cataracts.
- Cuts Risk of Colon Cancer.
- Slows Brain Decline.
So whenever you visit my beautiful country the Philippines don't forget to have a try TUBA you can have them with tungog a certain mangrove species that will make a tuba taste bitter, sour and stronger taste but I prefer drinking them naturally and if you like it very sweet choose tuba that is freshly harvested because the longer it will stay the fermentation occurs the tuba will taste very sour and that's when you can use them as vinegar but if you like to do some experiments you can use tuba for cocktail making or just have them plain like your drinking beer 🍻.
How about you does anyone of you have the same tuba drinks in your country. I'll be very happy to know about it 🤗.
@luckylaica! I just tried drinking TUBA last year! and because people told me you don't get drunk with it, damn, I drank a lot that I passed out and couldn't remember what happened that night. This was during a fiesta in Leyte where I stayed at a friend's home. But the tuba they have there is the red colored one. I want to try the one you have there! will visit you next time we go there!
TUBA. Those red tuba is what they call bahalina they put some stone that make it like that and I don't like it much because it taste bitter. I hope you could visit here again by June because its fiesta and maybe we will have some little salo-salo and I will let you taste the fresh and pure tuba. I'm sure you would like it better!😊Hello, @indayclara. I could imagine you get drunk with TUBA right now😁. My Aunts and their friends used to drink tuba in the mountain when theres occasions and they all got like crazy when they got drunk. Its like they drunk those hard drinks but it just the
Omg! We will try our best to be there by June! See you soon!
Okay, see you!
Good one. I never knew that wines can be made from the coconut tress as well. Thanks for sharing.!!
Thanks 🙂. It really tastes good I hope you can try it one day.
Hi, Laica, nice article about the Tuba. In my homeland the same way they collect this coconut flower juice in very few places because once it is used for making juice the fruits are not forming on the tree.
In some places, they ferment and make alcohol. In some places, they make jaggery/sugar from it. I had seen it at my aunt's place. They just make jaggery/sugar out of it.
Oh wow, nice to hear about your place. you're right once the juice is collected from the flowers the fruits will be sacrificed. Here, we fermented them for alcohol or vinegar for cooking. I never heard that we could make them into sugar. Thanks for sharing your experience @hindavi . Have a great day!