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Coconut water is boiled with sugar and a nitrogen source, soured with acetic acid and seeded with cellulose-making acetic acid bacteria. Left still in shallow trays for one to three weeks, it grows a thick white mat of bacterial cellulose that is cut into cubes, boiled and packed in syrup. Made in 5 steps over 8 days – 20 days. The longest step, leave still in shallow trays, takes 8–20 days (Thankappan G 2018) and runs at 27–30 °C (Mardesci H. 2018). Komagataeibacter species (formerly Acetobacter xylinum, Gluconacetobacter xylinus); strains from a nata production facility belonged to this genus and Komagataeibacter nataicola do most of the fermenting.
defined culture: a Komagataeibacter (Acetobacter xylinum) starter plus mother liquor from an earlier batch
Total time across the recorded steps: 8 days – 20 days
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What changes:Coconut water is filtered and boiled with sugar and a nitrogen source
Step 1 of 5
Filter and boil coconut water with sugar and nitrogen
Time
Not documented
Temperature
Not documented
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented
Which microbes the steps name, step by step
Komagataeibacter
G. xylinus
K. nataicola
Sugar in the medium is the main factor that decides the yield of nata. Output: sterile sweet medium.
Flavour
sweet
Texture
Not documented
Colour
Not documented
Microbes at work in this step
boiling kills the wild microbes
Method
Measured measured in a studySet fixed by a specification or tested recipeReported one source reports itTypical a general value, not sourced for this fermentUnconfirmed not yet checked against a source
What makes this one different
Nata de coco is valued for the mat the bacteria build, not for a change in the liquid. The same acetic acid bacteria make vinegar and kombucha, but here the medium is kept still and the cellulose layer is the food.
Nata de piñaMade on pineapple juice or peel; the older Filipino product that nata de coco replaced.
Nata from pre-fermented coconut waterCoconut water is first fermented by yeast for a day; this raised the cellulose yield of K. nataicola up to 14-fold in one study.
Safety
The medium is boiled before seeding and soured to pH 4.2, and the harvested cubes are boiled again before packing in heavy syrup.
Nata de coco is credited to the Filipino chemist Teódula Kalaw África, who in 1949 proposed coconut water as a year-round substitute for seasonal pineapple juice in making nata. The account rests on secondary sources.