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Can I have coconut amino with coconut sap as the main ingredient?


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  • 3 months later...

Thanks so much for your prompt reply! I am curious, however - simply because I am fascinated by learning more how all this works and wanting to understand  how this might be applicable in other situations - what makes the coconut sap an exception in this case? Is it because it is aged, which somehow changes the chemistry of it?

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Kait, coconut sap isn't always used as a form of added sugar. For example, coconut syrup and coconut vinegar are both made from coconut sap--and no one would accuse vinegar of being sweetened. The sap must be simmered at low temperature for 90 minutes or so before it can be granulated into sugary crystals or used as a thicker, sweeter syrup. So in this case, I think it's context-dependent. The sap is fermented to make aminos, not simmered to make a syrup.

 

Makes it really hard to have an official ruling on this one ingredient, but we'll try to do our best to help people differentiate between products Coconut aminos and vinegar are compliant. Coconut syrup or coconut sugar are not.

 

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Melissa

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So, my coconut aminos taste nothing like soy sauce. In fact, it's sweet. The ingredients are just organic coconut sap and sea salt, but I find it overly sweet and it puts me right off. Any suggestions?

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Ya, unfortunately thats the taste... if you're looking for 'umami', fish sauce works but good luck finding one in Canada that is compliant... they all have sugar as far as I've been able to tell. If you go to Washington ever, Trader Joe's sells Red Boat now and Bellingham got a Whole Foods so they probably have it too...

What are you looking for suggestions for that the aminos didn't work?

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Victoria is getting a whole foods, opening next year at Uptown. Unfortunately I'm moving to the south Okanagan in a few weeks so I'll have to make the pilgrimage across the line probably to Wenatchee if they have a Trader Joe's or WF. Sigh.

Basically I was just hoping the coconut aminos would taste like soy sauce, salty and tangy, for my sashimi. I made that sunshine sauce too and I think I didn't like it because I was expecting a soy sauce taste, as the book says, it "tastes exactly like soy sauce"... Lies! Lol.

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Ya, aminos tastes nothing like soy sauce when used for a one for one replacement... I make sunshine sauce all the time and I never muck around with aminos... tastes just great without it... sometimes I add a touch more salt and lime to give it more depth but otherwise, I don't see aminos as being as great as they're cracked up to be... 

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Victoria is getting a whole foods, opening next year at Uptown. Unfortunately I'm moving to the south Okanagan in a few weeks so I'll have to make the pilgrimage across the line probably to Wenatchee if they have a Trader Joe's or WF. Sigh.

Basically I was just hoping the coconut aminos would taste like soy sauce, salty and tangy, for my sashimi. I made that sunshine sauce too and I think I didn't like it because I was expecting a soy sauce taste, as the book says, it "tastes exactly like soy sauce"... Lies! Lol.

 

Ya, aminos tastes nothing like soy sauce when used for a one for one replacement... I make sunshine sauce all the time and I never muck around with aminos... tastes just great without it... sometimes I add a touch more salt and lime to give it more depth but otherwise, I don't see aminos as being as great as they're cracked up to be... 

 

Thank you for these honest opinions of coconut aminos! I was going to try to order some and spend quite a bit of money, just so I could make my own homemade sushi again... now, I'll skip it and just use a mayo-based dip instead. Thank you!

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