Bulacan Food Industry

CHAPTER 1

The Problem and its Related Literature

“Sugar, spice and everything nice” is well noted with famed food products of Bulacan. Their sweets and delicacies are worth craving for. For instance, have you ever tasted macapuno or ube balls or have you ever seen one? This sweet candy ball is Bulacan made and should definitely be tried by person with sweet tooth.

Sweets and delicacies have long been famed products of Bulacan. These generated income among the well-known manufactured sweet goods in the province are pastillas de leche, pastillas de yema, pastillas de ube, macapuno/ube balls, minasa, inipit, ensaymada, cassava/rice cakes, puto, kalamay, suman, and among others. They are prominent because of the extraordinary ingredients used and procedures done to achieve a flavor that one will continually look for once tasted. This unique quality of Bulacan sweets has made them favorite “pasalubong” to love ones. opportunities to many Bulakeños knowing that this type of industry can be easily manufactured even at home. 

But with the fast phase of the growing food industry all over the world, how can Bulacan cope up with the markets’ changing taste and food preferences? Thus, traditional food production processes are threatened by food manufacturing businesses that are fast producers of same products.

With an efficient production process through operations management, Bulakenos are now entitled with efficacy in production as well as with other factors that goes with it to be able to compete with others without sacrificing traditional quality and taste of their products.

Bulacan is highly recognized for its sweetened delicacies and well prepared courses. In Pampanga, cuisine is a major task lavishly prepared with natural creativity and talent. Food is attributed to its earthy abundance like fermented crabs, fermented rice sauce or buro, fermented frogs, milkfish in sour soup, fried mole crickets and sweetened cured pork...