Nowadays, many kinds of food have been sold all over the stores in the country. Some of these are fruits & vegetables which we need to eat for a balance and healthy diet, but there are also foods that can bring serious ailments like drinking too much alcohol or foods that high in cholesterol and for the children, eating too much junk foods which is really bad for their health. This situation is really dangerous for the children in having a healthy and a balance diet. In this case, the Researcher conducted a study involving principle learned in Science to solve the problem that the country has been facing among its little children.
Despite of being a bitter and hated fruit among children, Ampalaya (Momordica charantia L. Amorgoso) has a great nutritional value and is effective for curing many illnesses. The Researcher then use this specific type of fruit in order to make substitute goods for the junk foods that child usually eats.
Cake, known to be as a dessert in every meal is a really delicious food. Many children likes to eat cake, so the Researcher decided to make a cake that has an additive of the fruit Ampalaya . It was purposely decided because the Researcher knew that it would be attracted among children and they may love it if they taste it.
In Survey of the taste of the cake was conducted in IV-Newton classroom. There were two trials; the first one has a ratio of Flour to Ampalaya 3:1/2 cups, while the second one has a ratio of 3:3/4 cups. The First trial surveyed 36 persons and got desirable results. The Second trial proved the difference between the ratios of flour to Ampalaya from the first trial. From the findings gathered, the Researher was assured that the study was a success.
The Researcher would like to acknowledge the contributions of more than a few people who helped in getting this study done. A warm thanks to the parents of the Researcher for their endless support and guidance especially to Mrs. Levia Bautista, whom taught the researcher how to bake. Also great thanks to the researcher’s friends and classmates who helped her in the survey, and to the relatives who lived in Carmen who helped in the encoding of the Research Project. A many thanks also to their Research teacher, Ms. Balve Granido that has been in their side for two years and in her continuous guidance in her students for having a Research project and most of all, to God who is the creator who guided the Researcher in dong rightful choice in doing her Research paper. Without God and the persons who are involved in this research project, this would not be successful. A million thanks to all!
CHAPTER I
Introduction
CHAPTER II
Review of Related Literature………..……………………………6
CHAPTER III
Methodology
Results & Discussion ………………………………………........................8
CHAPTER V
Conclusion & Recommendation …………………………………. …..9
BIBLIOGRAPHY ………………………………………………………10
APPENDICES…………………………………………………………......11
CURRICULUM VITAE……………………………………………......12Introduction
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
One of the most problems today that confront the country is malnutrition; one of the causes of malnutrition is eating foods that have less nutritional value like junk foods. This malnutrition hinders the realization of the dream of a healthy and a happy community and the attainment of quality education. Because of these, the researcher attempt for an innovative way of preparing a food which is inexpensive and has a great nutritional value. The researcher attempt to conduct a study applying the principles learned in Science and utilizing Ampalaya which usually is a problem for the children to eat because of its bitter taste as a fruit. The researcher purposely chose Ampalaya because of its high nutritional value; it is cheap and usually just found in home garden or backyard and is also readily available in the market as a raw material.
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM: This study aims to find out if Ampalaya can be a good additive in cake making.
Specifically the study aimed to answer the following questions:
1.) Is the cake with Ampalaya additive acceptable in this of:
a.) Taste
b.) Texture
c.) Smell ?
HYPOTHESIS
The taste of Ampalaya cake is not acceptable among children.
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
The significance of this study is that It aims to substitute junk foods away from children by trying eating high nutritional value foods like vegetables and fruits specifically Ampalaya.
SCOPE AND LIMITATION
This study focuses on the taste result of Ampalaya cake to children and its limitation to form new kinds of food.
DEFINITION OF TERMS
Ampalaya- Scientific name is Momordica charantia L. Amorgoso, is a vine plant that typically grows on tropical country. It has a bitter taste but has a high nutritional value and believes to cure many kinds of illness.
Cake-is a form of food that is usually sweet and often baked. Cakes normally combine some kind of flour, a sweetening agent (commonly sugar), a binding agent (generally egg, though gluten or starch are often used by lacto-vegetarians and vegans), fats (usually butter, shortening, or margarine, although a fruit purée such as applesauce is sometimes substituted to avoid using fat), a liquid (milk, water or fruit juice), flavors and some form of leavening agent (such as yeast or baking powder), though many cakes lack these ingredients and instead rely on air bubbles in the dough to expand and cause the cake to rise. Cake is often frosted with butter cream or marzipan, and finished with piped borders and crystallized fruit.
Junk food- is an informal term applied to some foods which are perceived to have little or nonutritional value, or to products with nutritional value but which also have ingredients considered unhealthy when regularly eaten, or to those considered unhealthy to consume at all.
Review of Related Literature
Ampalaya is Filipino for bitter melon, or bitter gourd or bitter cucumber. Its scientific name is Momordica charantia. It is also found in China, Japan, Indonesia, Vietnam and India. It is a greenish oblong-shaped fruit that grows on vines to about 20 cm long, with tapering ends. Sour in taste, it has many culinary and medicinal uses in Asia and parts of South America and the Caribbean. Its origin is unknown.
According to medicalhealthguide.com, the Philippine Department of Health endorses the Ampalaya plant for use as an alternative medicine for many conditions.
Ampalaya is recommended to help relieve liver problems, to control blood sugar, HIV, skin diseases, sterility in women, to kill parasites, to reduce fever and purge illness from the body through defecation. Both the Ampalaya leaves and fruits contain vitamin B, iron, calcium, beta carotene and phosphorous. Some of its benefits are, it disinfects, relieve cold symptoms, boosts immunity, regulates blood sugar levels, lowers blood pressure, relieves headaches and protects spleen and liver.
In our country, there are areas of malnutrition in different provinces. The State of the World’s Children says it is due to financial problem and also to the food they eat. Children now seldom eats vegetables and fruits because of many junk foods in the store that they are tempt to buy because of its delicious taste, not knowing that it has bad effects on their health, especially if they eat too much sweet which can cause tooth decay, tonsillitis and may turn out to be diabetes, and if too much sour, it can also cause U.T.I and or kidney failure. It is not advisable to each too much junk food because it will turn out to be very bad on your health.
That is why many of the researchers in our country planned and made a new technique in serving foods especially in cooking it. It has been noticed that most of the fruits, Ampalaya is the common fruit that children don’t usually eat because of its bitter taste, So researcher conduct a study on how to cook a food that is abundant in nutrients as well as attractive among children.
