Food Cuisine in The Philippines
Food makes your body work, grow and repair itself. The kind of food you eat can affect the efficiency of these processes. Body function and the food that sustains it is infinitely complex. Food is in fact one of the most complicated sets of chemicals imaginable.
Getting to know which nutrients are in which foods can help you to understand something of this complex relationship between your food and your body.
Food science draws from many disciplines such as biology, chemical engineering, and biochemistry in an attempt to better understand food processes and ultimately improve food products for the general public. As the stewards of the field, food scientists study the physical, microbiological, and chemical makeup of food. By applying their findings, they are responsible for developing the safe, nutritious foods and innovative packaging that line supermarket shelves everywhere.
PHILIPPINE CULTURE....
The most easily identifiable difference in Filipino culture is of course reflected in religion. The Christian Filipinos, found mostly in the large island of Luzon and the Visayas make up about 96 per cent of the country's population of about 50 million. Filipino Muslims, on the other hand, are concentrated on the southern part of Mindanao Island close to the borders of Indonesia and Malaysia.
Among Christian Filipinos there are many variations in cooking. The fragmented nature of the islands, the fact that they were probably settled at different times by people coming from different parts of Malaysia and Indonesia, and the difficulties of communication and transportation have woven various threads into the tapestry which is Philippine culture.
As in other cultures there are food favorites in each region in the Philippines. For example,even in staples, most Filipinos living in Luzon Island prefer rice while Visayans in the Island of Cebu, Leyte, and Sarnar like corn. People in Luzon and some iff the Visayas will eat roots crops (sweet potatoes, yams, cassava, etc.) as desserts or snacks but to eat them as staples in these regions would indicate that one is poor. In Mindanao, however, panggi (cassava) is the staple food in many areas.
