Tags: Beauty and Hygiene, Household Products
By KC Santos
SALOG, SORSOGON CITY – After a few years of research, Bicolana entrepreneur Minda Yee finally perfected the proper way of extracting pili pulp oil for culinary, pharmaceutical and cosmetic uses.
Locally made pili pulp oil is now becoming a popular and an inexpensive alternative to olive oil.
“There are a lot of farmers in our home also grow the pili nut. I figured this method would keep them from disposing pili pulps,” Minda says.
Back in Sorsogon, she gathered pili nut farmers and trained them how to manually extract oil from the nuts’ pulp. The “de-pulping” process includes blanching the fruit in lukewarm water or soaking it in tap water for two days.
Manually extracting the pulp can be strenuous especially because the longer the pili nuts are stored from the time they were picked, the lesser the amount of oil that can be extracted.
Minda says the crude process of producing the pili pulp oil that makes it beneficial especially to those who suffer from skin problems. It is also proven effective in reversing the effects of aging and baldness.
As a cooking ingredient, pili can be used for salads, pastas and ginisa or sauteed dishes. Pili oil also contains double the beta carotene, vitamin E and phytosterols than olive oil, which makes it a perfect local antioxidant to allow your skin to breathe and glow more.
The oil is currently distributed by Bicol’s Best Leslie Pili Products.
With the help of the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources (PCARRD), the research and development arm of the Department of Science & Technology (DoST), Minda is currently talking foreign investors for the use to pili oil for cosmetics.
The pili pulp oil products for the skin are sold at only P60 to P85 while the ones used for cooking are sold by the bottle for a few hundred pesos.
“As a kid, I never thought this small piece of fruit can make that big a difference in a lot of lives,” she said.
Get more information about Bicol’s Best Leslie Pili Products
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