Healthy Guso Salad

Gabriel Allingham — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:46:24 +0000

Tropical island, shielded from calamities, friendly people, progressive governance, independent market, paradisaic beaches and chiefly seafood abundance were just a few of how Cebuanos should be thankful of. Seafood does not only bring palatable dishes into our dining table but also healthy benefits. And to start up with our list of healthy food is kinilaw na guso or guso salad. Guso is a Cebuano term for gelatinous seaweed called agar-agar (scientifically known as Eucheuma cottonii). It is said to be a very good source of vitamins and minerals especially protein and iodine, and a very healthy food for those with goiter problems. Kinilaw na guso can also add extra taste to bland food like rice, sweet potatoes and boiled bananas. Here’s a simple Guso salad recipe that I found from our very own kitchen.

Poor health? Lack of iron?….have this to eat.

Step 1. Rinse the guso seaweed with hot water, enough to clean it. But don’t hold it for so long, it might affect its texture.
Step 2. In a bowl, seasoned it with your own flavor and tossed with these ingredients: vinegar and patis to soften a little the texture, chopped ginger, onions and tomatoes.
Optional side-item: shredded green mango and shrimp paste

Other Wonders of Guso
Carrageenan is a white powder extracted from processed dried guso. It functions as gelling agent, binder and moisture holder for some popular food and non-food products. Here is a list of them:

Pet Food – fat stabilization, thickening, suspending gelation
Ice cream – prevents whey separation, controls meltdown
Meat Products – thickening, fat stabilization, bodying, tolerance to high level of salt
Milk Products like cheese, UHT milk, chocolate milk, diet powder mixes, flans, frozen desserts – suspension, bodying, emulsion stabilization
Gel Desserts – provides wide range of textures and release of flavor, gelling
Syrup – suspension, bodying
Beer Finning – process aid to produce good clarity beer
Pharmaceuticals – provides animal-free capsules
Cosmetics – binding, stabilizing
Shampoo – binder, foam stabilizer
Water-based Paints – suspension, flow control emulsion stabilization
Toothpaste – resistant to enzymatic breakdown, provides structure without masking flavors
Air Freshener Gels – provides structure and controlled release of perfume

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Noodles A new alternative staple food

Gabriel Allingham — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:38:35 +0000

Noodle makers must be rejoicing this time. Pasta food has been part of the Filipino cuisine already. I myself am a big fan for pancit canton (thick yellow-colored wheat noodle). Was it because of the taste or the pasta? Well I don’t know, it’s just that pancit canton nowadays is a favorite for students, kids, staying in a boarding school, workers or even in tapsilog corner where you can already order a meal with pancit canton. Noodles had been one of the biggest influences the Chinese culture had made on Filipino cuisines. The mania was even widely embraced since it started to go commercialized. More companies produced noodles to suit different Filipino taste buds. And all are what we call instants, spaghetti, sotanghon, noodles soup, lomi, pancit canton, yakisoba, etc. Moreover, Korean flocks in the Philippines added the so called noodle craze. The country cannot deny that due to its economic crisis, noodles is a big help – may it be basic, soup or fried, all of them passed to the Filipino market taste. Instant noodles soup served with broth sold the most in the common groceries. It comes in different tastes like bulalo, chicken, beef, batchoy, seafood, hot and spicy etc. To some people, instant noodles can also be a good alternative for an empty stomach (pantawid-gutom as they say), a good alternative for the costly rice and dish for those who are in tight budget fellow. The government also used instant noodles to feeding programs and donations to calamities. But with this growing demand for instant food, is this healthy enough for the people?

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