Pinoy food technologies, resources, news and reviews. Includes food safety and health issues
Add a little more! Nestle® Coffee Mate has Zero grams trans fat! Food product which contains less than 0.5g trans fat can claim zero grams trans fat on their label. The declaration is allowed due to fact that trans fat in small amount is hard to measure. In case you consume ten foods with zero [...]
Its a beverage bottle but I often see people using it for container of vinegar, 2T motor oil and gas fuel. There is no harm using it for vinegar, juice, fish sauce and other food commodities. But using it as container for gas fuel and other dangerous substance is another story. Someone might mistaken it [...]
Salmonella are the best known and most feared type of bacteria. They can lead to a great number of food poisonings such as vomiting, diarrhoea, typhoid fever. It belong to the Enterobacteriaceae family. Heating to a temperature of 68°C will kill salmonella bacteria reliably; storage temperatures of below 4°C inhibit their growth. Have been primarily [...]
fizzy / soda / seltzer / carbonated water Why do we love sodas? Because it bubbles and its not luscious enough to drink it when bubbling ceases. The bubbles seems carry the flavors, it loss gradually as the bubbling progress. In simple explanation. Carbonated water is made by forcing carbon dioxide in water and sealing [...]
Knives are very useful in food processing. They are used for slicing, cutting, peeling and chopping. They have different designs and each designs are made for its purpose. We have the sticking knife, boning, skinning, slaughter and ham knife. Of all the knife types, there is a recommended design made for safety purposes. Designed to [...]
Notice the two food additives written below. Citric acid and Sodium Citrate. The whole ingredient list came from canned soft drink. Citric acid is a natural food preservative. It act by lowering the food pH making most microorganisms unable to grow in medium. But it doesn’t apply to yeast and other acid loving fungi. It [...]
Do you know why Pido Dido is so slim? Maybe he is drinking Diet 7-UP®. Diet means, it will not add up to your daily calorie intake. It will not make you fat unless you eat every yummy food you see relentlessly. Instead of using sugar, the manufacturer uses aspartame and acesulfame potassium, the two [...]
