Macapuno Pandan Sorbetes

Macapuno is considered a delicacy in the Philippines. It is preserved in heavy sugar syrup, usually as long shreds. You can buy bottled macapuno, which can be used as an ingredient in haluhalo. It can be made into candy and is also a popular flavor of ice cream.

Macapuno in Filipino, or กะทิ (kathi) in Thai, is a coconut sport or naturally occurring coconut mutant which has an abnormal development of the endosperm. The result of this abnormal development is a soft jelly-like coconut flesh.

Normal coconut flesh mostly consists of galactomannan as a source of energy. In the development process, this substrate is degraded into two sub-components, galactose and mannose. In the mutant the enzyme for degrading this substrate, α-D-galactosidase, is not active. Hence, the endosperm fails to nourish the embryo, resulting in a collapsed embryo. Besides this enzyme, a couple of other enzymes are also suspected of being involved in the development of this trait: sucrose synthase and stearoyl acyl carrier protein desaturase.

To produce the macapuno, the soft kernel of a young coconut is first grated into strips. It is then mixed with white sugar and a small amount of water. The concoction is allowed to simmer in a pan until it turns into syrup and tasted for quality. When sufficiently cooled, it is then bottled into a delicious, and syrupy sweet-tasting macapuno.

Pandan has a very unique flavour  and hard to describe. The leaves will give you very nice colour and essence helps enhance your baked goods and sweets. Pandan flavour goes surprisingly  well with macapuno.

Pandanus amaryllifolius is a tropical plant in the Pandanus (screwpine) genus, which is commonly known as pandan leaves (/ˈpændənˌlivz/), and is used widely in South Asian and Southeast Asian cooking as a flavoring.

Benefits of Pandan Leaves

1. Lowering high blood pressure

High blood pressure are at risk of stroke, and the characteristics of this disease are always feel dizzy and tired so it will greatly hamper our activities. If you are exposed to high blood then must avoid various kinds of blood booster foods which would make things worse.

Plants that need you are trying to cope with high blood pressure are the fragrant pandan leaves. How to make her potion to take pandan leaves to taste later in the mix in two cups of water and boiled, wait until the water remains one glass after boiled, drink half a cup in the morning and the rest of his half again in the afternoon, do regularly and regularly in order to create a more normal blood pressure.

2. Eliminate tinea versicolor

tinea versicolor disease occurs because it is caused by a fungus that grows on the skin, so the skin becomes itchy and turns white, however there is also a certain skin color into a different color such as red.

With pandan leaves, you can eliminate the fungus on the skin with pandan leaves, which is easy enough to soften a handful of fresh pandan leaves then squeeze and take the water, then mix in the salt water and the results of the juice drink one glass a day for three days on a regular basis .

3. Eliminate Dandruff

Itchy and hot hair and scalp flaking? it means that you are exposed to dandruff, the presence of dandruff on the head can also cause hair loss, you can use the leaves as a natural herb eliminate dandruff is pandan leaves, you prepare about ten fresh pandan leaves and mashed until completely smooth, then add enough water and water from mixture leaves the Pendan.  You wipe the hair, use this procedure before shampooing, set aside some time and last wash your hair thoroughly.

4. Hair Loss

If you have any problems with your hair loss, you can use a solution that is by using pandan leaves, until the same way as I mentioned above, that is by setting up a few strands of pandan leaves and then crushed and the juice results from the pandan leaves you apply to your hair and let stand one to two hours, then rinse your hair thoroughly, doing this way in the morning.

5. Weak Nerves

Abnormalities in the garbage we can recognize easily that frequent cramps, this disease occurs due to the reduction of existing nerve stimulation to specific body parts that have previously been available in full and sufficient.

Nervous weakness to be overcome by using pandan leaves, way they are presented with a small chopping fresh pandan leaves three strands, then you boiled with three cups of water, let stand in the furnace until the remaining water into two glasses. separate waste and water decoction of the pandanus, then drink filtered water as much as a glass, drink this potion in the evening and morning.

6. Rheumatism

Although arthritis often affects people who are elderly, but not a few young people affected by this disease, arthritis usually occurs due to frequent cold or too long soak in the water, to cope with pandan leaves, you prepare three pieces of fresh pandan leaves then you thin slices, then if all you mix already in slices evenly with coconut oil as much as half a cup that is already in the heat, set aside some time, if it is cold please you rub on the affected part of your body rheumatism.

7. Increase Appetite

At certain times we must have felt that his name is less appetite, this situation will make our body vulnerable to disease, because nutrition and vitamins needed by the body is not well supplied with food is good because we are lazy to eat, if you feel less appetite eating, pandan leaves can be made into natural ingredients to increase appetite.