Malunggay Ice Cream, Anyone?

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PUBLISHED ON December 20, 2007 AT 10:31 AM

ONE way to fight malnutrition in the country is to encourage children to eat nutritious vegetables. However, these vegetables must first taste delicious and look appealing if people are to be encouraged to consume them.

A food technologist from the Mariano Marcos State University (MMSU) in Batac, Ilocos Norte, has found a way to marry off better taste and appeal with nutrition, and she has done so with malunggay recipes.

Dr. Lorma Valera spent years developing the proper use of nutritious vegetables in dishes that have heretofore ignored vegetables like malunggay.

Valera was among the guests during a cooking demonstration in the recent launching of “Malunggay in the City” in Barangay Commonwealth, Quezon City.

“Malunggay in the City” is an urban farming program of the Department of Agriculture (DA) through the initiative of the Biotechnology Program Office (BPO), which is now aggressively promoting the backyard and commercial planting of moringa, commonly known as malunggay for moringa-seed oil production.

The program aims to encourage urban poor communities to plant malunggay to help fight hunger, poverty and malnutrition in the urban area.

Valera started cooking using original malunggay recipes in 1987, which her fellow teachers at MSSU enjoyed. Five years later, she started the first malunggay- processing project, successfully coming up with different flour-based, malunggay-fortified snacks.

MSSU President Elias Calacal, who encouraged her to come up with a project proposal in the processing of malunggay snacks, approved the project after tasting one of Valera’s original, malunggay ice cream.

Since then, malunggay ice cream became a favorite dessert that is served during special occasions. Among those who patronize the malunggay ice cream is former President Fidel V. Ramos, says Valera.

The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) funded another project for the processing of more malunggay recipes in the amount of P100,000.

Valera has since been invited to various cooking demonstration sponsored by different state colleges and universities in Ilocos, including the Baguio State University and Northwestern University.

According to Valera, processing malunggay and other vegetables can be the solution to the chronic malnutrition suffered by Filipino women and children throughout the country.
Among her more famous recipe were the malunggay pastillas, polungay or polvrones de malunggay and malunggay noodles. (biolife news service)

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lai Says:
January 11th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
what are the other benefits of malunggay?
marlet Says:
January 29th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
.. a lot! Malunggay or (moringa oleifera) is dubbed as a miracle tree because of the wide range of uses of the plant. Not only it is nutritious ( it is considered to be one of the most nutritious vegetable) but the plant has also medicinal and industrial application. The pods contains about 30% oil whose properties are about the same as olive oil and can be used for various application. The extract from the cake remaining after the oil is extracted is also used for water purification and the cake itself can be used as feed or fertilizer. I hope this will encourage us to plant more of this miracle plant. You can serach the web for its other uses. By the way how can I get the recipe for malunggay ice cream and malunggay noodles? I really would like to try it :)..
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ramon vicente Says:
June 11th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
I am looking for source of malunggay powder can you help me
lei-ann Says:
June 28th, 2008 at 1:15 am
hi.
i would like to ask if you could please send me the recipe of the following:

-pastillas, polungay or polvrones de malunggay and malunggay noodles and also malunggay ice cream.. please.please..

is it okay if you send it today june 28, 2008 or tomorrow june 29, 2008..

i need it badly for my school assignment.. because we will be cooking a meal made of malunggay.. and i think this is a good choice..:]

thank you so much..
Arlene Raymundo Says:
July 4th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
pls provide me with a recipe of malunggay ice cream and pastillas. thanks.
dennise aura Says:
July 6th, 2008 at 10:12 am
pls. send me the recipe of malunggay ice cream and pastillas. thanks.i need it for my lesson in nutrition. i am a grade 6 pupil of sero central school cotabato city
camilla Says:
July 9th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
i’m a 2nd year pupil of mand.sci

where’s the recipe of malunggay ice cream? it really interests me…
vienne Says:
July 9th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
i am a first year in mandsci.
i want to know more about this malunggay ice cream.
i need the recipe please…
thanks ^_^ ♥♥♥♥
tadel Says:
July 11th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
please send me the malunggay recipe.we all got interested of it and wanna try it.if it tastes better than it sounds.=)
tadel Says:
July 11th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
can you please send it by tomorrow?because we’r planning to do it tomorrow for a family reunion.thanks for the malunggay recipe!=)
retardednanny Says:
July 13th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
helo…I commend Dr. Lorma for her ingenuity in transforming the malunggay from a simple vegetable to desserts even..I was wondering if you could send me the recipe for malunggay ice cream please, because I think I’d like to know how it tastes like? Thank you very much..
ashiel de las alas Says:
July 15th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
…….can you gave me the recipe of malunggay ice cream…..plz
emma Says:
July 16th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
im interested how to make tea juice and coffee out of malunggay leaves. pls …….
loida indlible Says:
July 31st, 2008 at 7:29 am
please send me the recipe of malunggay ice cream thanks
Linda Devlin Says:
August 4th, 2008 at 3:07 am
Please send me the recipe for malunggay ice cream. Thank You.
jessiree de vera Says:
August 10th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
anyone who knows the recipe of malunggay ice cream..?
or anyone who knows how to bake malunggay cookies?
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August 22nd, 2008 at 3:00 pm
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angelica agustin Says:
September 3rd, 2008 at 9:17 pm
hi my groupmates and i are making a research paper on malunggay. could you give me any suggestions on other edible stuff can be made using malunggay pls email to lyca_spcp_2005@yahoo.com
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