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DOST-developed processing technologies to improve cacao-based products

Monday, November 27, 2017 12:50 AM    Views : 962by:Geraldine Bulaon-Ducusin, S&T Media Service

With the government's move to revitalize the cocoa industry, the Department of Science and Technology-Industrial Technology Development Institute (DOST-ITDI) developed globally competitive technologies to enhance locally processed cacao products.

These ITDI-developed technologies, namely cacao (tablea) processing and cacao bean roaster, speed up production time and improve the quality of cacao-based chocolate. Said  technologies are of big help to entrepreneurs producing cacao-based products.

Ma. Dolor L. Villaseñor, a supervisor at the DOST-ITDI's Food Processing Division pitched to the potential stakeholders from the business sector that the cacao (tablea) process technology is designed to help the players in the cacao industry produce tablea that are at par with the ASEAN standards.

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Ma.Dolor L. Villaseñor pitches the Tablea Process Technology to entrepreneurs during the DOST-ITDI Technology Offering Series held recently.

"The cacao processing technology that DOST-ITDI developed can produce cocoa that is smooth and less acidic than the ones commercially available," she said.

As of 2015, the country produced 14,000 metric tons (MT) of cacao, and 12,000 MT of these were produced in Davao Region.

Meanwhile, the ITDI-developed cacao bean roaster has better features than traditional roasters in terms of ease of use and affordability. This locally fabricated roaster costs around P600,000 pesos  while imported ones cost up to P1 million.

"We're targeting the local licensed fabricators for this cacao bean roaster technology," Rufino T. Barcala Jr. said.

ITDI developed the bean roaster to make the equipment locally available and more affordable to SMSEs when they adopt the technology.

These cacao technologies will scale down the production cost and improve the quality of locally manufactured chocolate products.

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Locally produced cocoa

Local entrepreneurs can avail of these technologies through licensing agreements with DOST-ITDI which offers technical services for various industries.

For more details on food processing technologies, please visit http://www.itdi.dost.gov.ph/.(By Geraldine Bulaon-Ducusin | Photos by Henry A. de Leon, S&T Media Service)

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" Two Filipino inventors scored a pair of gold medals in the International Invention, Innovation, Industrial Design and Technology Exhibition (ITEX 2000) held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in September 2000. Engr. Cornelio Seño of Los Banos, Laguna and Rolando dela Cruz garnered golds for their inventions called, respectively, "Pressure Fluid Machine" and "Topical Formulation in Removing Warts, Moles and the Like Using Cashew Nuts (Annacardium occidentale)." Dela Cruz spent 25 years of research for his winning cashew nut preparation known as Dewart and Demole. Seno has four US and four Philippine patents under his name. "

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