it contains five different kinds of electrolytes, as opposed to drinks such as  gatorade, which only have two electrolytes and no mineral water - this causes the body to rehydrate faster than other beverages.

historically speaking and seeing it has a large amount of nutritional value, the story goes that the water was used in world war ii as a saline solution for injured soldiers - today coconut water is not only drank in it's natural cup, which is from a freshly sliced coconut, but it is also mass-produced and distributed for portable drinking.

amacoco is a brazilian distributor of coconut water, and started the brands kero coco and trop coco, which, in 2009, was purchased by pepsico.