Pinoy food technologies, resources, news and reviews. Includes food safety and health issues
Do you still remember the time when Philippines was plague by a very infectious disease. Not a human disease, its an illness of cloven-footed animals, the foot-and-mouth diseases (FMD). Hand-foot-and-mouth disease (HFMD) is a different matter and should not be confused with fmd. FMD is a viral disease affecting cattle, buffalo, sheep, goat and pigs. [...]
It is said the iodine supplement can protect the body from radiation. It created a buzz and people bought potassium iodide in haze. Drug stores that sell the supplement got out of stock. To make the things clear, iodine can only protect the body within three hours from the time of radiation exposure. Taking it [...]
An old friend of mine bought me a lunch. We never seen each other for some time. He paid for the lunch as a treat. The food really looked yummy – fried chicken leg, rice and leafy veggies. He heated it in microwave oven before serving. I was shocked when we started to eat the [...]
Papers are made of trees. We need to cut down lots of trees to fulfill our needs for paper. However, we also need to love our environment. Cutting down trees results to forest denudation that eventually lead to flash floods, global warming and other natural disasters. Irresponsible disposal of paper waste lead to pollution and [...]
Early morning, the sun is still deep asleep. Pot-pot! pot-pot! Then someone will go outside his house in haze. The purpose is to buy some pandesal or pan-americano from a man who is riding on a bike. He is carrying a large bread box on his back and pressing a horn repeatedly. A child is [...]
What happen when we heat sugar? It will undergo a reaction called caramelization. This imparts a brown color and a unique taste to every food preparation. As far as my knowledge was concern, I believed that there was only one kind of caramel. Hmm… I was wrong cause there are four classification depending on how [...]
Determining whether the food is expired or not is easy but not always. Sometimes we are eating without knowing the food’s current condition. I bought a cracker from a sari-sari store. I ate it right away and did not check whether it was expired or not. I was about to throw the cracker bag when [...]
