Archive for March, 2011
« Previous EntriesThe Lady of Malagos Cheeses
Thursday, March 17th, 2011It seemed like it was only yesterday when I first met Olive Puentespina in her little booth at a food trade exhibit in Davao, where I was totally smitten by her feta and pecorino-style cheeses from their goat farm. Besides what I thought was a darn good product, I also saw the fire of enthusiasm [...]
Coco bread, anyone?
Thursday, March 17th, 2011MANILA, Philippines – Acknowledging the Philippines as one of the largest coconut producing countries in the world, Julie’s Bakeshops has signed an agreement with the Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) to come up with a healthy alternative in making bread. “The recent increase in flour prices has encouraged bakeshops to look for alternatives that result in [...]
Medicinal Plant: Caimito (Chrysophyllum cainito)
Thursday, March 17th, 2011Botany A tree with a spreading crown, growing to a height of 15 meters with numerous slender branches. Young tips are copper-collored and covered with hairs. Leaves are leathery, pointed at the tip, blunt or rounded at the base and covered with silky, golden-brown soft hairs. The flowers are purplish-white, small and clustered in the [...]
Medicinal Plant: Kalabasa (Cucurbita maxima)
Thursday, March 17th, 2011Botany Coarse, prostrate or climbing, annual, hearbaceoous vine, 4 meters or more. Leaves are hispid, rounded, 15 to 30 cms, heart-shaped at the base, shallowly 5-lobed, with finely toothed margins. Flowers are bell-shaped, erect, yellow. The fruit is large, fleshy, with a yellow pulp. The seeds are ovoid, or oblong, compreseed. Distribution Grown throughout the [...]
Medicinal Plant: Niyog – Coconut (Cocos nucifera)
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011Botany Unarmed, erect, tall palm reaching a height of 25 meters. Trunk is stout, 30-50 cm in diameter, thickened at the base; marked with annular scars. The leaves are crowded at the apex, 3-6 meters long, with a stout petiole. Leaflets are bright green, numerous, linear-lanceolate, 60 to 100 cm long. Spadix is about 1 [...]
Medicinal Plant: Manzanilla (Chrysanthemum indicum)
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011Description · An erect or ascending, somewhat whitish, hairy herb, perennial, aromatic, 30 to 60 cm high. · Leaves: thin, pinnately lobed, ovate to oblong-ovate, and 4 to 6 cm long. Lobes 2 to 3 on each side, ovate or oblong-ovate, and sharply toothed. Upper surface of the leaves deep green while the under surface [...]
Coco Water Prolongs Freshness of Vegetables
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011Use coconut water instead of formalin (formaldehyde) in prolonging the freshness of vegetables. The use of coconut water is simpler, safer, and more economical use than using formalin, which may scare vegetable buyers. In a demonstration by researchers at the College of Agriculture, University of the Philippines Los Baños (CA-UPLB), stringbeans dipped in fresh coconut [...]
Malunggay ice cream wins raves
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011DAGUPAN CITY , Philippines – If it’s hard to get your kids to eat malunggay (moringa), then give them ice cream blended with the nutritious leaves. The malunggay ice cream prepared by agriculturist Victoria Padilla in her backyard in Barangay Nalsian, Manaoag town is making waves and stocks have already reached outlets in Baguio City. [...]
Medicinal Plant: Papaya – Melon Tree (Carica papaya)
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011Botany Erect, usually branchless tree with a soft grayish trunk, marked with scars. Leaves, borne on the top are long-stalked, rounded and deeply lobed. Flowers, male in clusters, female are sessile. Fruit, obovoid, yellow-orange when ripe with numerous pellet-sized black seeds. Distribution Grown throughout the Philippines. Properties Antirheumatic, emmenagogue, anthelmintic. Constituents and properties • Considered [...]
Medicinal Plant: Kangai – Prickly Ash (Zanthoxylum avicennae)
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011Botany Kangai is a shrub of 2 or 3 meters in height, with pinnately compound leaves varying considerably in length, sometimes reaching 25 cm. Branchlets are unarmed. Leaflets are usually fairly smooth, variable in form and size, ovate, obovate, or oblong-elliptic, the terminal one being largest, averaging 8 cm long. Flowers are fairly small, whitish [...]
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