Category: Livelihood

Growing tomatoes in the garden is easy and almost every house has enough sunshine and soil to grow this bountiful crop. Tomatoes are rich in Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Iron,…

Corned beef, also called salt-cured beef, has been a part of Filipino staple food not only for breakfast but it has been more popular when the eatery business introduce the…

Chinese Broccoli (Brassica oleracea var. alboglabra) also known as Kai-lan, is a glossy, blue-green leaf vegetable with crisp and thick stems; and has a small number of tiny, almost vestigial…

Seaweed is a plant that grows in the sea. There are thousands of different kinds of seaweed all over the world. Like plants that are grown on land, some seaweeds…

Eucheuma Candy is made of eucheuma seaweeds, milk, sugar and fruits. According to the people who were asked to judge its taste, they found it highly acceptable. Eucheuma contains fats,…

Milkfish or popularly known as “bangus” is the Philippines national fish. The demand for milkfish is increasing yearly as the consumer population increases. The popularity of milkfish as a food…

In the Philippines, dried fish products are very popular including daing na bangus, tinapa, tuyo, danggit, etc. It is one of the Filipino’s favorite breakfast food because aside from being…

Coconut Fiber-Cement Board (CFB) is a panel manufactured from the mixture of fibrous materials like coconut coir or shredded woody portion of coconut tree and Portland cement at a ratio…

Yogurt or yoghurt is a dairy product produced by bacterial fermentation of milk. The bacteria used to make yogurt are known as “yogurt cultures”. Fermentation of lactose by these bacteria…

Breadfruit (Artocarpus altilis) or popularly known as Kolo or Rimas here in the Philippines, is a species of flowering tree in the mulberry family, Moraceae, that is a native of…