Food Processing Industry In The Philippines

Complete, instant food for hunger, calamities

IT is a complete meal that goes beyond disaster response.

In Zambales, it is a boon to Aetas and locals, many of whom had been dependent on food aid for almost two decades now since Mt. Pinatubo erupted in 1991.

The Emergency Food Reserve (EFR) is made of the backyard vegetables cassava, malunggay and mungbean.

Fifty grams per serving for adults (about P1.75) is adequate to cover the recommended daily allowance per meal, according to Lourdes Solidum-Montevirgen of the Industrial Technology Development Institute’s (ITDI) Food Processing Division.

"Although we are starting with these three basic crops, any green vegetables and root crops will do," she said.

Montevirgen, a Senior Science Research Specialist at ITDI, is the lead researcher in a study that applied simple dehydration technologies for selected crops to process vegetables into ready-to-use food.

The EFR can be stockpiled then used in food preparations to add balance and variety to emergency food rations during relief and rescue operations and nutrition feeding.

The EFR should be distributed in a FIFO (First In, First Out) basis.

The ITDI has identified for the EFR the crops adaptable to climate change and tolerant to drought and salty environments.

It has determined the drying characteristics of these crops, conducted product application studies, determined the required packaging, prepared a manual for rural communities, trained a pilot rural community to process the raw materials – and identified public-private cooperators.

In Botolan, cassava costs P7 per kilo; about half of that can be processed into flour. Raw malunggay leaves yield 7 percent powder; mungbean can be processed into 100 percent powder.

The approximate cost of the ERF produced in Botolan is P35 to 40 per kilogram, equivalent to 20 servings at 50 grams per serving.

Per 100 grams, cassava flour contains 87.8 percent carbohydrates and 1.1 percent protein; fresh malunggay has 12.4 percent carbohydrates and 6.1 percent protein; mungbean has 21.6 carbohydrates and 7.7 percent protein.

All three contain fibers, calcium, phosphorous, iron, retinol, beta-carotene, vitamin A, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin and ascorbic acid.

When processed into EFR, cassava flour has 57.8 percent carbohydrates (and 1.1 percent protein); malunggay has 52.91 percent carbohydrates and 26 percent protein; mungbean has 64.73 percent carbohydrates and 22 percent protein.

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Ancient Pampanga's territorial area used to include portions of the provinces of Bataan, Bulacan Nueva Ecija, Pangasinan, Tarlac and Zambales in the big island of Luzon in the Philippine archipelago. The province is named after the Kapampangan words "ILOG Pangpang" which means "river", where the first Malay schools were concentrated along the Rio Grande in the Pampanga (Pampanga Grande River) until the settlers were adventurers Malay expanded their area in the hinterland region Kapampangan. Pampanga was the first province in the island of Luzon inaugurated by the Spaniards. It was founded on December 11, 1571 in the same year the City of Manila was established by Spanish Governor Miguel Lopez de Legaspi as the seat of national government. For governmental control and taxation purposes, the Spanish authorities subdivided the province into towns (pueblos), which were further subdivided into districts (barrios) and in some cases into royal and private estates. In a report of Philippine encomiendas on June 20, 1591, Spanish Governor Gomez Perez Dasmarinas reported to the King of Spain that La Pampanga’s encomiendas were Batan, Bitis y Lubao, Macabebe, Candava, Apali, Calompit, Malolos, Binto, Guiguinto, Caluya, Bulacan and Mecabayan. The encomiendas of La Pampanga at that time had eighteen thousand six hundred and eighty whole tributes, or seventy-four thousand seven hundred and twenty souls.The old Pampanga towns of Aliaga, Cabiao, Gapan, San Isidro and San Antonio have been transferred to the province of Nueva Ecija in 1848 during the Spanish Governor General Narciso Claveria y Zaldua Claveria was best remembered for issuing decrees during his memorable tenure. A history-making Claveria decree was issued Aug. 16, 1844, which ordered that Tuesday, December 31, 1844 should be formally considered as Wednesday, January 1, 1845, eliminating 31 December 1844 from the calendar Philippines. There were no deaths or births officially registered in the Philippines at that time. On November 11, 1849, Claveria issued a decree to systematize the selection and registration of names of the Filipino people. The decree called for Filipinos to have first names and surnames. It should be recalled that the early Filipinos usually have only one name like Lakandula, Soliman, Lapulapu, Humabon. The decree included a list of Spanish surnames, which were adopted by some Filipinos while others opted for Filipino last names instead. Today, many Filipinos have Spanish family names like Arnedo, Bonifacio, David, Escaler, Fausto, Gonzalez, Gutierrez, Hernandez, Ibarra, Inventor, Joven, Lopez, Lorenzo, Marquez, Mercado, Navarro, Pineda, Regala, Reyes, Rodriguez, Ronquillo, Ventura, Simon, Torres, Vargas, Vergara, Zuniga, etc. In 1860, the northern towns of Bamban, Capas, Concepcion, Victoria, Tarlac, Mabalacat, Magalang, Porac and Floridablanca were separated from Pampanga and were placed under the jurisdiction of a military command called Comandancia Militar de Tarlac. However, in 1873, the four latter towns were returned to Pampanga and the other five towns became municipalities of the newly created Province of Tarlac.

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