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'''Malunggay revisited''' | |||
*Source:http://www.malaya.com.ph/business-news/opinion/malunggay-revisited | |||
:(Malaya Business Insight) | |||
FOR years to the end of his life, Dr. Juan Flavier had been saying that malunggay is the healthiest green vegetable in the world. Malunggay will grow in any soil making it thrive everywhere, and ready to harvest in a few weeks. It is cheap, and free for the asking in most rural areas. Healthier, and with less negatives than spinach, broccoli, other greens. Not a secret, perhaps only to nutrition graduates. | |||
Malunggay leaves are now processed and exported as the whole world has recognized their value. Per serving, it contains the calcium equivalent of four glasses of milk, the vitamin C of seven oranges, the potassium of three bananas, three times the iron of spinach, four times the vitamin A in carrots and two times the protein in milk. This is according to the Bureau of Plant Industry. | |||
Sadly, malnourished Filipinos are unaware of the magnificent health virtues of malunggay. Nutritionists fail to inform them. It is evident to most nutritionists who fail to push this affordable, marvelously nutritious food. It took the socially conscious Senator Loren Legarda to do the necessary. | |||
It was Legarda who challenged Universal Robina (URC), Nestle Philippines, Monde Nissin and Uni-President Philippines--the country’s leading producers of instant noodles, to find ways to build up their products with malunggay. | |||
Poverty is now at a level when the poor would have for a meal one P11-package of noodles, boil this in a liter of water and the flavoring of monosodium glutamate. This over white rice. A new staple of many Filipinos for its affordability. | |||
Citing a report by the Department of Agriculture’s Biotechnology Program, she said: | |||
“Reinforcing instant noodles with malunggay is an inexpensive way for us to enrich the Filipino household diet and put in check widespread micronutrient deficiency,” the senator added. | |||
Legarda has been batting for the aggressive cultivation of malunggay, which she said, is “one practical way to fight malnutrition.” She has also been pushing the use of malunggay in the government’s feeding program for school children. Lugaw for the hungry should be loaded with malunggay, but is not.” | |||
Filipinos now spend an estimated P13 billion every year on instant noodles. There are proposals to include instant noodles in the same category as other “basic necessities” such as rice; corn; bread; fresh, dried and canned fish and other marine products; fresh pork, beef and poultry; fresh eggs; fresh and processed milk; fresh vegetables; root crops; coffee; sugar; cooking oil; salt; laundry soap; detergents; firewood; charcoal; candles; and essential drugs. | |||
Products classified as “basic necessities” under The Price Act, also known as Republic Act 7581, are protected against hoarding, profiteering and cartelization. | |||
Prices of “basic necessities” are also automatically frozen at their prevailing prices or put under automatic price control whenever a locality is declared a disaster area, under a state of calamity, under an emergency, or under martial law, or declared in state or rebellion or war. | |||
Under The Price Act, the President, upon the recommendation of the National Price Coordinating Council, may impose a ceiling on any basic necessity under certain conditions. | |||
Also under the law, government, using a special buffer fund, may procure, purchase, import or stockpile any basic necessity and devise ways of distributing them for sale at reasonable prices in areas where there is a supply shortage, or a need to effect changes in its prevailing prices. | |||
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'''The many benefits of malunggay''' | '''The many benefits of malunggay''' | ||
*Source:http://news.abs-cbn.com/lifestyle/07/22/10/many-benefits-malunggay | *Source:http://news.abs-cbn.com/lifestyle/07/22/10/many-benefits-malunggay | ||