Project:
Book about Coconut Tree and its by-products

Title:
Coconut Philippines Book

Authors: 
Lalaine Abonal and Luis R. Villafuerte

Creative Consultant and Book Cover Designer: 
Toti Paliza

Book received Honorable Mention Award:
New York Green Book Festival
New York, NY

Project Description:

COCONUT Philippines is a comprehensive, visual reference guidebook on the coconut and the hundreds of coconut by-products that are created and marketed worldwide. The book showcases 1,300 vibrant colored photographs of hundreds of coconut by-products from food, skincare, decorative accessories, fashion accessories, garments, packaging materials, spa ingredients, garden items (coconut water as natural plant growth enhancer,coconut planter pots, coco peat/dust, coco fiber net, coco coir, etc) building materials such as coconut tiles, coconut parquet wood flooring, coconut fiberboard,etc., and several industrial uses such as the coco biodiesel, oleochemicals, coco alkyd and polyol resins. The book also features everything and anything coconut such as coconut festivals, coconut-themed resorts and spas, the coconut pavilion, the coconut palace, a coconut dance and song, the coconut crab, coconut sceneries and several other coconut-themed products and services. The book discusses the history of the coconut; the different classifications of the coconut; it explains the unique characteristics and integrated uses of every part of the coconut tree; and the different extraction and production processes of coconut by-products. The book also highlights why coconut is considered as a ” wonder food ” and explains the unique and compelling health-giving properties of the coconut water, coconut meat, coconut milk/cream and coconut oil, now dubbed as the “healthiest oil on earth.” COCONUT Philippines is an isnpiring source book of information to policy makers in coconut-growing countries, coconut farmers, coconut by-product producers and manufacturers, traders, engineers, designers, coconut enthusiasts and consumers. The book celebrates the spirit of Filipino craftmanship and ingenuity in the use of every part of the coconut, the tree of life.