Market Table · Coconut Sweet
Dulce de Coco
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Guna families have historically used coconuts as trade goods, once bartering them directly with passing boats for cash or supplies.
Shredded coconut cooked down slowly with raw cane sugar until it turns into a sticky, chewy candy. Guna women sell it in small leaf-wrapped portions at village gathering spots.
Why it's made this way: With coconut palms covering nearly every islet, Guna Yala turned its most abundant crop into this simple confection long before coconut became an export commodity.
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