u00b0 c for 7 minutes the bottles were cooled to 27 u00b0 c the sap had a characteristic cloudy appearance of u2018 neera u2019 devoid of fermented odour without any sedimentation coconut sap 10 l was collected from the coconut farm in the early morning transported to the laboratory in the mobile chiller 4 u00b0 c designed by cftri the sap was analysed for ph and solids content 4 3 and 15 u00b0 brix the sap was mixed with citric acid 0 045 and nisin 10 ppm filled in glass bottles 200 ml with a headspace of about 10 ml crowned and pasteurized at 95 u00b0 c for 5 minutes the bottles were cooled to ambient temperature 27 u00b0 c the sap had a characteristic cloudy appearance of u2018 neera u2019 devoid of the fermented odour without any sedimentation coconut sap 30 l was collected from the coconut farm in the early morning transported to the laboratory in the mobile chiller 4 u00b0 c designed by cftri the soluble solids content and ph of the coconut sap was 15 u00b0 brix and 4 76 respectively the sap was mixed with citric acid 0 09 and nisin 10 ppm filled in glass bottles 200 ml with a headspace of about 10 ml crowned and pasteurized at 95 u00b0 c for 5 minutes the bottles were cooled to 27 u00b0 c the sap had a characteristic cloudy appearance of u2018 neera u2019 devoid of fermented odour without any sedimentation while this invention has been described as.