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Recently Butch Gunio of BusinessMirror.com wrote a story describing how Moringa is processed into low cost, high nutrient noodles that will feed schools and local communities. Below is an excerpt from BusinessMirror.com

“BALANGA CITY, Bataan—The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) here announced that entrepreneurs in Bataan are into processing of malunggay, camote and squash noodles in line with the agency’s veggie noodles project.

Yay Lasam, DTI provincial director, said the nutritious noodles will soon be used in the feeding program of the Department of Education for school children.

“We have promoted the use of the noodles to school officials to provide nutritious food for the students,” she said.

Lasam said  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 Jaime, development specialist from the DTI said the noodles in 250-gram packs are sold from P35 to P40 in the market. She said the noodles can be eaten raw like the common sitserya (snack food).

David’s Food Products of Balanga City processes squash and malunggay noodles with a 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.  It has a 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 noodles in addition to its squash pandesal.

The Bagac Veggie Noodles Association in Banawang, Bagac, processes a combination of camote-malunggay in one pack.

The four entrepreneurs have so far invested P770,000 and maintain 59 workers.”

-http://businessmirror.com.ph/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22304:bataan-traders-go-into-malunggay-camote-squash-noodles-processing&catid=24:companies&Itemid=59