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Sour Toddy

Palm toddy fermented a day or two into a tart, mildly alcoholic drink

Tuvalu Wine & spirit Vegetarian

Your guide, Chef Baku
Drawn, not photographed Updated September 2026
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History

Fresh kaleve ferments within hours in the heat; the sour version is the traditional island alcohol and is regulated by falekaupule councils.

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What is Sour Toddy?

Sour Toddy is a wine & spirit from Tuvalu: palm toddy fermented a day or two into a tart, mildly alcoholic drink. Fresh kaleve ferments within hours in the heat; the sour version is the traditional island alcohol and is regulated by falekaupule councils.

Made with

coconut

Cooked

fermented

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The atlas would have to match every ingredient to a food-composition database before it could publish a figure, and an estimate is not worth having if someone is counting on it.

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