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Mnazi

Coconut palm sap tapped and left to ferment, drunk cloudy and sour

Kenya and Tanzania Wine & spirit Vegetarian

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

Tapped by Mijikenda palm climbers on the Kenyan coast, drunk fresh in the morning and stronger by afternoon.

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What is Mnazi?

Mnazi is a wine & spirit from Kenya: coconut palm sap tapped and left to ferment, drunk cloudy and sour. Tapped by Mijikenda palm climbers on the Kenyan coast, drunk fresh in the morning and stronger by afternoon.

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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