farmeric August 20th, 2010

Malunggay,according to former Agriculture Secretary Arthuro Yap, has many agri-busi- ness potential, explaining why there is a need for farmers to venture into malunggay farming. He gave credit to the DA-BPO led by Director Alicia Ilaga for aggressively promoting the backyard as well as commercial planting or cultivation of the nutritious vegetable tree crop, making it malunggay one of the country’s chief vegetables.

YAP cited the DA’s Malunggay Agri-Biotechnology Program as the model of the research, development and extension component the DA’s program.

“If coconut is the tree of life, the malunggay is the miracle tree,” he said. Yap said malunggay has many agri- business potentials which can help fight hunger and poverty and increase farmers’ income, as well.

Powdered malunggay can be used to fortify noodles, soup or bread with vitamins and minerals of the nutritious vegetable while its seeds, which can produce all-purpose oil, can be used by industries for products like soap, shampoo, lotion and other personal health-care products.

It can also be an alternative source of Continue Reading »

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farmeric August 18th, 2010

Pacquiao, who prefers to use the moniker given to him by the Americans, which as everyone knows came from a video game character immensely popular in the 80s, known for devouring everything in its way, has devoured every fighter who crossed his path.

Pacquiao, who boxed his way to fame and fortune and into the hearts of this country’s citizens desperate for heroes, reportedly feasted on malunggay-filled tinola prepared by his trainer before his fights.

The Department of Agriculture (DA) has said time and again that pound for pound, malunggay is the most nutritious vegetable this side of the planet, rich in every known nutrient. It also wages war against free radicals that impair metabolism.

DA said that the Medical College in Kolkota, India, found out that malunggay can help in the treatment of female reproductive disorders like epithelial ovarian cancer.

Philippine folklore says that malunggay can also help men with low sperm count.

Known scientifically as Moringa oleifera Lamk, malunggay is also believed to be a natural energy booster.

It is a given that malunggay, with all its nutrients, helped Paquiao beat his opponents.

With the vast commercial opportunities that come with the “miracle vegetable,” our people just might rally behind it, be more productive, earn, have food on the table, be truly united, and help each other live a better life.

It’s hard to unite when one is poor and hungry, but there is one ingredient in the meal of the destitute that has all the nutritive values absent in the meals of the super rich, and that is malunggay.

Of course, for the greedy there will never be enough. No amount of malunggay-laced tinola can remedy that problem.

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farmeric November 6th, 2009

This is a story as told by Dr. Vivencio Mamaril, a member of the Bureau of Plant Industry Biotech Core Team.

Among the vegetables we eat, malunggay has already earned various tags- healthiest vegetable, a miracle tree, lowly but high in nutrition, and many others. It’s now even tagged as the most healthiest food and miracle food as well.

Malunggay Vitamins and Minerals

There must be something and someone in malunggay that made it as the most popular vegetable in the country today.

Here comes the story, as it happened and is happening before Dr. Vivencio Mamaril very own eyes.

The basic, malunggay has seven times in amount of vitamin C as compared with orange fruit, four times the calcium in milk, four times the vitamin A in carrot and three times the potassium in banana.

According to Dr. Mamaril, it has been so long time that we were not aware of the vitamins and other nutrients malunggay can provide not until the Department of Agriculture (DA) made some noise about malunggay.

The Department of Agriculture (DA), through its Biotechnology Program Implementation Unit, were surprised to learned that there is a business enterprise that is much interested to buy malunggay foliage and seeds. The demand for foliage and seeds is so huge that no single grower or an aggregate of growers can fill the demand.

The truth is, there are no malunggay growers who can produce seeds and foliage in great quantity, and there is no existing technology for it as well. Due to this challenge, Continue Reading »

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farmeric September 19th, 2009

Moringa (Malunggay) Shanghai Rolls

Ingredients:

• 12 ½ cups ground pork
• 2 ½ cups onion



• 2 ½ cups garlic
• 10 cups carrots (cubed)
• 2 ½ cups flour
• 10 pcs. egg
• 1 ¼ cups tomato sauce
• 5 cups malunggay leaves
• 10 tsp iodized salt
• 100 pcs. lumpia wrapper
• 7 ½ cups cooking oil
• kinchay

Procedures:

1. In a mixture bowl, place the ground pork, garlic, onion, carrots, flour, eggs, tomato sauce, kinchay and malunggay leaves. Continue Reading »

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farmeric September 13th, 2009

Eating, Drinking Your Way To A Healthy Life

An interview with Dr. Maxima Flavier of UPLB
By   VIRGINIA   ANN   BURGOS

A HEALTHY lifestyle today is associated with the use of natural compounds derived from food crops. Nutraceuticals, the food substances that provide medical or health benefits including prevention and treatment of diseases, and cosmeceuticals, substances that bank on natural ingredients to enhance beauty, are the emerging trend in health and wellness, especially in the US and in Europe.

The use of traditional components is not new to Filipinos. Long before researches on nutraceuticals and cosmeceuticals were undertaken, traditional herbs were already being used as health remedies, especially in the rural areas. Some of the most common herbs used in the rural areas include banaba, for urinary tract infection, lagundi, commonly used as expectorant but also has many benefits, and ginger, for arthritis, these herbs are now being developed for commercial consumption by other pharmaceutical companies.

The utilization of natural medicines is one of the advocacies of Dr. Maxima Flavier, director of the Institute of Chemistry (IC) at the University of the Philippines in Los Baños (UPLB). “I prefer to use traditional natural products; you get them by eating their sources,” she told Biolife as she discussed the benefits of natural products like rice bran and siling labuyo.

Dr. Flavier was also the co-adviser of a study undertaken by IC on the health and medicinal benefits of rice bran as an angiogenic. Before this, she stayed in Japan for a year as a visiting professor conducting research on the effective utilization of rice bran.

Their study in UPLB showed that rice bran contains Phytosterols. Phytosterols are now being incorporated in the production of food and beverage, as studies have showed that they help prevent heart diseases by reducing the level of bad Continue Reading »

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farmeric September 5th, 2009

Pochero A La Berding Gulay

Ingredients:

• 1 c. peeled & sliced unripe papaya
• 1 c. malunggay leaves
• 1 c. green beans or winged beans
• 3 pcs. ripe tomato
• 3 pcs ripe banana
• 1 c. dried minnow
• 1 clove garlic
• 3 stems green onions
• 1 small pc ginger (thinly sliced)
• 1 T. cooking oil
• 5 black pepper, whole
• 3 c. water
• salt to taste

Preparation:

Saute the garlic and ginger in cooking oil until slight brown. Add the water and bring to a boil. Add the banana, beans and black pepper. Cover, and continue boil. When half-done add the sliced papaya, dried minnow, tomatoes, green onions, and salt to taste. Lastly, add the malunggay leaves. Remove from heat when done, and serve while hot. Servers 8.

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farmeric August 28th, 2009

This is a very simple and quick to cook malunggay recipe and no need for any fish or meat.

Corn with Malunggay Leaves - Simple Malunggay Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 c. grated young corn
• 2 cloves garlic
• 1 head onion
• 3 c. water
• 1 small sponge gourd (luffa)
• 1 c. malunggay leaves
• 1-1/2 Accent
• salt to taste

Preparations:

Saute garlic and onion in medium fry pan. Add water and let it boil. Then add the corn, stirring often to avoid burning. When cooked, add the gourd and malunggay.

That’s all! A simple and quick malunggay recipe.

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farmeric August 17th, 2009

Sauted Malunggay Pods

Ingredients:

• 2 c. fresh Malunggay Pods
• 2 T. shortening
• 1 tsp. minced garlic
• 2 T. sliced onion
• 1/2 c. sliced tomatoes
• 1 c. boiled beef, diced
• 1 tsp. salt
• 1 c. fresh lima or butter bean seeds, peeled
• 1 c. green cowpea or yard-long bean pods cut into 1-1/2″ lengths

Preparation:
Cut malunggay pods lengthwise into 4 piececs. Slice white pulp including tender seeds. Discard outer covering. Cut pulp into 1-1/2 inch lenghts. Saute garlic, onion, and tomatoes. Add beef. Cover, and cook 2 minutes. Season with fish paste and salt. Add lima or butter beans, and cook 3 minutes. Add malunggay pulp and cowpea or yard-liong bean. Cover, and cook 10 minutes. Serves 6.

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farmeric August 15th, 2009

How Much Malunggay Should You Eat?

• One half cup of cooked  leaves  will meet your daily recommendation for Vitamins A and C.
• One half cup of pods(raw) will supply your Vitamin C quota for the day.

Server Malunggay in Daily Meals.

In cooking any dishes with malunggay using coconut milk, the coconut milk  is extracted  by squeezing  the meat of a freshly grated coconut. The first squeezing  is called kakang gata or coconut milk. A second squeezing is used after water is added to the remaining coconut meat, and then is called gata or coconut reserve. The green pods of malunggay can be used as a substitute for Okra.

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farmeric August 11th, 2009

Ingredients:

• 1 c. pure coconut milk
• 1/3 c. pure coconut milk reserve
• 5 pcs. fish, preferably tilapia
• 1 onion bulb, sliced
• 1 head garlic, crushed
• 3 tomatoes , quartered
• 8-10 winged beans or string beans, quartered
• 1 small pc ginger
• 3 pcs bell pepper, green and red, quartered
• 1/2 c. Malunggay leaves
• 1-2 T cooking oil
• 1 t. crushed  black pepper
• 1/2 c. pigeon or Congo peas
• 1 c. cubed yellow  sweet potato

Preparation:

Saute garlic in oil until brown. Add onion. Continue Reading »

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