Chocolate is not only an irresistibly delicious ingredient used to make your baked goods and desserts absolutely addicting. It has so much history and benefits. A food product made of roasted cacao seeds, grounded, then turned into a liquid, paste, or solid, eaten once it solidifies into a chocolate bar, or sometimes flavored with other…
White Sugar, also called ‘granulated sugar’, ‘table sugar’, or ‘regular sugar’ is made of cane sugar or beet sugar. One of the most common types of sugar, there are many types of varieties under this popular sweetener. The short process to make this ingredient starts from extracting the liquids from sugarcane or beets, boiled till…
555 Sardines Philippines is a truly Filipino product from the under Century Pacific Food, Inc. with the tagline “Super Ulam Pinoy” translating to “Super Filipino Viand” as these are not only filling but have vitamins and minerals like lycopene, protein, iodine, calcium and more. It’s been in production for around 30 years or more, ingredients…
Pansit pansitan (Pansit pansitan in English is ‘Pepper Elder’ ) also called ‘ulasimag-bato’ is the name of a herbal plant like weed that you might confuse with the popular pancit dish (noodle dish) from the Filipino restaurant Manam. The Pansit pansitan plant is a shallow rooted medicinal plant that grows in slightly shaded areas eaten…
Cucumber is a refreshing lean and long green garden vegetable with a high water content from the same family as pumpkins and watermelons. These are technically fruits but are more considered and cooked as a vegetable as these have a mildly sweet and cool taste, and slightly tastes like a melon fruit. This creeping vine…
Brown sugar is a sweet product under the sucrose category with the addition of molasses or without the molasses content taken out during production, which gives it its nice golden or dark brown color. Traditionally it is called ‘partially refined or unrefined sugar’, with the production typically mixing in the molasses into white sugar instead…
Corn, also called ‘maize’ or ‘cereal plant’. Is an edible yellow or multicolored grain comes from the grass family, domesticated by the indigenous people from Southern Mexico, and have been cultivated and eaten till today, and probably further more in the future. This plant is eaten not only for the sweet taste and chewy texture,…
Mayonnaise, shortened to ‘Mayo’, is a cold, thick, creamy white with a slight tinge of yellow colored condiment used in sandwiches, salads, fries, added into other sauces, dressings, added as a special ingredient into cakes, or used as a topping. You can find ready to use mayonnaise in grocery stores, convenience stores, or just over…
Lychee, sometimes spelled as Litchi, or lichi, is a recognizable, bright red rounded fruit, known for its sweet fruity and slightly floral scent and taste. A fruit that originated from China, and is part of the evergreen family tree of the Sapindaceae, it can grow to around 49 feet tall, covered with a foliage of…
The Sponge gourd, or called the scientific name ‘Luffa aegyptiaca’, is a herbaceous tropical climbing vine fruit, growing cylindrical in length, with a light lime green or dark green skin that is often consumed as a vegetable. A short Introduction The sponge gourd (pronounced ‘spuhnj-gord’) is called many names such as ‘Loofah’ or ‘Luffa’ gourd,…
