BALANGA CITY, Bataan – The Department of Trade and Industry on Friday announced the processing of malunggay, camote and squash pancit canton noodles by four entrepreneurs in Bataan under the Veggie Noodles Project.
Yay P. Lasam, DTI provincial director, said the nutritious noodles will soon augment the feeding program of the Department of Education for school children.
“We have promoted the use of the noodles to school officials who readily accepted its implementation to provide additional nutrients for the kids,” she said.
Lasam said that the processors will soon make use of camote and squash flour from the present ordinary flour mixed with malunggay and squash to make the products purely organic.
Cindy M. Jaime, trade and industry development specialist, said the noodles in 250 gram pack are sold from P35-P40 in the market. She said the noodles can be eaten raw like the common chitseria.
David’s Food Products of Balanga City processes squash and malunggay pancit canton noodles with daily production capacity of 95 packs of 250 grams per pack. The Mt. View Veggie Noodles in Mariveles develops combination of squash-malunggay in one pack with production capacity of 64 packs of 250 grams per pack in a day.
Five Bro’s Bakery of Bagac produces 51 packs daily of squash pancit canton noodles in addition to its squash pandesal.
The Bagac Veggie Noodles Association on Banawang, Bagac processes combination of camote-malunggay in one pack.
The four entrepreneurs have so far invested P770,000 and maintains 59 workers.
Yay P. Lasam, DTI provincial director, said the nutritious noodles will soon augment the feeding program of the Department of Education for school children.
“We have promoted the use of the noodles to school officials who readily accepted its implementation to provide additional nutrients for the kids,” she said.
Lasam said that the processors will soon make use of camote and squash flour from the present ordinary flour mixed with malunggay and squash to make the products purely organic.
Cindy M. Jaime, trade and industry development specialist, said the noodles in 250 gram pack are sold from P35-P40 in the market. She said the noodles can be eaten raw like the common chitseria.
David’s Food Products of Balanga City processes squash and malunggay pancit canton noodles with daily production capacity of 95 packs of 250 grams per pack. The Mt. View Veggie Noodles in Mariveles develops combination of squash-malunggay in one pack with production capacity of 64 packs of 250 grams per pack in a day.
Five Bro’s Bakery of Bagac produces 51 packs daily of squash pancit canton noodles in addition to its squash pandesal.
The Bagac Veggie Noodles Association on Banawang, Bagac processes combination of camote-malunggay in one pack.
The four entrepreneurs have so far invested P770,000 and maintains 59 workers.
