Fruit - Pinoy Bisnes Ideas

3Dec

By PB4 Comments

How To Make Fruitcakes

Source: yummlyThere's something wonderfully nostalgic about baking fruitcakes, and when done right, they become a show-stopping centerpiece for the holiday table. Here’s my guide to crafting the perfect fruitcake—a recipe that’s as timeless as it is versatile.The Basics of Fruitcake IngredientsA fruitcake is an indulgent medley of candied fruits, dried fruits, fruit rind, nuts, spices, and a generous splash of liquor or brandy. Each ingredient plays a role in creating the cake's rich, dense character.But don’t feel confined by the recipe. Swap out ingredients to suit your tastes—brandied cherries for wine-soaked figs or candied pineapple for dried apricots. As long as the ratio of fruits and nuts remains consistent, your fruitcake will be splendidly yours.The Importance...

8Mar

By PB1 Comment

AgriBusiness

Growing Cashew

An economically important fruit crop, cashew consist of large, pear-shaped, fleshly fruit and small kidney-shaped seed (nut) attached to one end. Both the fleshly fruit and the nut are the edible and has considerable commercial value.The flesh portion of the fruit is eaten as dessert and also used in wine, alcohol and vinegar manufacture. Cashew nut is eaten when roasted and used in the preparation of cakes, pastries ice cream, candies and chocolates. The nut of the shell is used as a woodcarving preservative against white ants, while the gum is also an important ingredients in the manufacture of varnish. The kernel is a source of oil.Although very useful, cashew is not widely planted in the Philippines. In 1985, from a total of 7,130 hectares of land planted to cashew we produced ...

21Feb

By PB1 Comment

Business Ideas

Starting a Landscaping Business

Landscaping has become a popular phenomenon these days. Many commercial establishments such as restaurants and shopping malls utilize a well-defined landscape to attract customers. Households with spacious front and backyard establish landscapes to beautify their homes. Even theme parks, memorial parks, and golf courses utilize plants in their landscapes to make their surroundings aesthetically tasteful.Landscaping is a general term that refers to any activity that modifies the visible features of an area of a land. It is the art and science of designing and managing the outdoor space to create an environment that is highly suitable to the biological and physiological well-being of man. As a science, landscaping involves technical knowledge for the selection, arrangement, and grow...

11Feb

By PB1 Comment

AgriBusiness

Sweet Tamarind Propagation and Management

Tamarind (Tamarindus indica Linn.) is one of the minor fruit crops in the Philippines with a great potential for commercialization. In certain parts of the country, it is an important crop because its fruits and other parts have varied food and medicinal uses.Tamarind has great export potential because its fruit may be processed into a number of acceptable products. But the mature and ripened tamarind fruit of the sweet type is said to be more important and expensive than when it is processed. However, the supply still does not meet the demand.Sweet Tamarind PropagationTamarind may be propagated by seeds and asexual propagation (i.e. grafting). Propagation by seeds is not recommended because the resulting plants do not grow true-to-type.Seeds obtained from healthy and matu...

Promoting the less-known, phytochemical-rich Pinoy fruits

25Jan

By PB1 Comment

AgriBusiness

Promoting the less-known, phytochemical-rich Pinoy fruits

Most young people nowadays are familiar with apples, grapes, plums, peaches, cherries, or pears. These are fruits that the Philippines imports from other countries because they only grow in cold climates. Meanwhile, indigenous fruits like anang, sapote, yambo, sapinit, katmon, kalumpit, lipote, binukaw, or paratungon are often given the boggled look and are being overlooked, not because they are not as delicious and as nutritious as their imported counterparts, but because most Filipinos are not familiar with them. Also, for some, eating these less-known, never-heard-of fruits is an acquired taste which needs some getting used to.In an effort to mainstream these Pinoy fruits to the consuming public, particularly the young people, the Department of Agriculture (DA) has intensified its c...

20Dec

By PB32 Comments

AgriBusiness

Dragon Fruit Production Guide

Dragon fruit or Pitaya grows best in uniformly distributed rainfall throughout the year. It prefers free draining soil with sandy to clay loam types, 5.3 to 6.7 pH and high organic matter. However, Pitaya is also grown successfully in sandy soils. Pitaya is shallow rooted with most roots concentrated on top 15- 30 cm soil depth.Dragon fruit or pitaya is a vining epiphytic cactus from the humid tropical rainforests of Central and South America. Like their desert counterparts they are able to tolerate harsh dry conditions but only for a limited time.The fruit is round , often red colored fruit with prominent scales . The thin rind encloses the large mass of sweetly flavored white or red pulp and small black seeds. Some varieties are pinkish or yellow.It can be taken as fruit, flo...

2Nov

By PB14 Comments

Food Business Ideas

Starting a Fruit Juice and Shake Business

Starting a healthy fruit juice and fruit shake business is a good choice for anyone looking for business to start with a low capital. With the increasing demand for a healthy food choice, diets and losing weight, starting this kind of business creates many opportunities for young entrepreneurs, and one of the least expensive but potentially lucrative ventures to start is selling fresh fruit juices and shakes.I. INVESTMENT REQUIREMENTS a. Utensils: * 1 pc Fruit slicer 6″ (stainless steel) * 1 pc Can opener * 1 set Measuring spoon (plastic) * 1 pc Measuring cup (plastic) * 1 pc Chopping board (anti-bacterial) * 3 pcs Plastic bowl 26″ * 1 pc Spatula(more…)

23Oct

By PBNo Comments

Food Business Ideas

How to Start Homemade Preserves and Pickle Business

Fruit preserves are fruits, or vegetables, that have been prepared and canned for long term storage. The preparation of fruit preserves traditionally involves the use of pectin as a gelling agent, although sugar or honey may be used as well. Depending upon which ingredients are used and how they are prepared will determine the type of preserve; jams, jellies and marmalades are all examples of different styles of fruit preserves that vary based upon the ingredients used.Packing Fruits Raw Pack (Cold Pack)- Pack raw fruit into jars and cover with boiling hot sugar syrup, juice or water. It is necessary to leave a head space between the lid and the top of food or liquid. This space is needed for the bubbling of liquids and fruit expansion. If the jars are filled too full the contents may...

23Oct

By PBNo Comments

Food Business Ideas

How to Make Watermelon Jelly

Fully ripe watermelons that have a soft red flesh should be used for making jelly. The juice is extracted from the fruit and used to make a jelly, rather than a jam (jams contain pieces of fruit pulp whereas jellies are made from fruit juice). Watermelons contain little natural pectin so pectin has to be added to ensure the jelly will have a good set. Other fruits that are high in pectin, for example apple, rind of passion fruit, can be mixed with the watermelon juice if commercial pectin is not available. Watermelon juice is not very acidic (pH above 5.0) which is too high to make a good jam or jelly. Jams give a gel when there is the correct ratio of pectin to water and the pH is between 2.5 and 3.45 pH. The optimum pH to give a good gel is pH 3.0. Therefore citric acid has to be added t...

13Oct

By PB14 Comments

Food Business Ideas

Banana Processing – Value added Products from Banana

Banana is one of the most abundant fruit crops in the Philippines. It is also one of the sources of income for farmers. Banana has various uses that can be turned into many processed products. In addition to banana exporting, processing banana into different products could mean additional income for banana farmers. (more…)

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