Copra's the dried meat, or kernel, of the coconut. Production Coconut oil's traditionally extracted by grating or grinding copra, then boiling it in water. It was long used by Pacific island cultures and became a valuable commercial product for merchants in the South Seas and South Asia in the 1860s. Nowadays, the process of coconut oil extraction's done by crushing copra to produce coconut oil (70%); the by-product's known as copra cake or copra meal (30%). This 19th century copra trading insp… (More on Copra)