How to make Calamansi flavored candies, jellies, and lollipops

Calamansi Flavored Jellies (Candies)

Ingredients:

starch 10 tbsp
water 1 and 1/4 c
sugar 1 and 1/2 c
glucose 1/4 c
calamansi juice 4 tbsp
citric acid 1/8 tsp
food color 1/4 tsp
calamansi oil 1/4 tsp

Utensils:

heavy saucepan
stove
ladle
measuring spoons
measuring cups
trays, knife
spatula, plastic bag
refractometer

Procedure:

1. Mix cornstarch and water. Stir to dissolve.
2. Place the mixture in a heavy saucepan and bring to a boil with continuous mixing.
3. Boil for 2 minutes.
4. Then add sugar and glucose. Stir to dissolve sugar and glucose.
5. Continue boiling until the solution reaches a soluble solid of 78-80%. This can be determined with a refractometer.
6. Add food color if desired and calamansi juice with citric acid.
7. After boiling, add calamansi oil.
8. Pour the mixture into trays. Stand for 2 to 3 hours.
9. Cut into desired sizes and shape with a spatula. (If no spatula is available, use knife).
10. Roll in granulated sugar, strain to remove excess sugar.
11. Pack in plastic bag.

Calamansi Flavored Lollipos

Ingredients:

sugar 2 c
glucose 1/2 c
water 1/2 c
salt 1/4 tsp
calamansi juice 4 tsp
calamansi oil 1/4 tsp
food color

Utensils:

heavy saucepan
measuring cups
measuring spoons
ladle
candy thermometer
trays
molder
lollipop sticks

Procedure:

1. Apply oil to molders.
2. Combine sugar, glucose, water and salt. Place over medium heat, stirring constantly until sugar dissolves and mixture comes to boil.
3. Reduce heat and cook at a steady, fairly low boil without stirring until it reaches the hard crack stage 154.4 degrees C (310 degrees F).
4. Remove from heat and add food color, calamansi juice and lastly the calamansi oil.
5. Pour into molders. As soon as candy is set, twist a lollipop stick into each candy. Loosen lollipop from molder.
6. Pack individually.

Source: ITDI, photo courtesy of www.crobike.de

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Lanzones Production Technology

• Grown in Southern Tagalog and Mindanao
• 10, 330 ha. area planted
• Grows well in clay loam soils and in places where the ground water is shallow.
• Thrives best in warm humid climate with an even distribution of rainfall throughout the year.

Varieties:

DUKU

• The tree is usually shorter than the other varieties but has a wider crown.
• Leaves are hairless.
• Fruits are round and are borne from 4 to 12 fruits per raceme.
• Pericarp is thick (up to 6 mm) with no latex.
• It is sweet with a delectable flavor.
• The tree is usually shorter than the other varieties but has a wider crown.

PAETE

• Grown mostly in Luzon, Misamis Oriental and Camiguin Island.
• Fruit is elongated and smallest among the varieties.
• Leaves are lanceolate.
• The tree is erect.
• Trees are relatively susceptible to bark borer infestation.

LONGKONG

• A variety introduced from Thailand and Indonesia.
• The fruit is sweet and tasty.
• Almost seedless.
• The skin or peel has no latex.

Site Selection:

• Flat to hilly within 600 m above sea level.
• The land should have a loamy or sandy soil.
• 2,500 – 3,000 mm annual rainfall
• 75-80% relative humidity

Preparation of Planting Materials:

• Select only plump and well-developed seeds.
• Carefully remove the flesh adhering the seed.
• Germinate the seeds in light loamy soils or in germination beds with sawdust.
• Germinated seedling are ready for potting in 8” x 11” x 0.003 plastic bag when the first pair leaves have appear.
• At 12-18 months from pricking the rootstocks are ready for asexual propagation.
• At 6-12 months after grafting, the asexually propagated plants are ready for field planting.
• Rebagging should be done when polyethylene bag becomes brittle
• Rear seedlings under a nursery shade allowing full recovery of the plants prior to field planting.

Land Preparation:

• Clear/underbrush the whole area.
• Plow and harrow to loosen the soil.
• Plant temporary shade (ipil-ipil, madre de cacao or banana) before field planting.
• Stake a distance of 5 m between hills and 5 m between rows.
• Prepare holes 25 cm in diameter at a depth of 25 cm or big enough to accommodate the ball of soil supporting the bagged plants.

Planting:

• Apply basally, 50-100 gm of complete fertilizer (14-14-14) or ammophos (16-20-0).
• Remove the plastic bag and plant the seedling into the prepared hole.
• Cover the hole with top soil and press gently.
• Water immediately after planting.

Care and Management:

1. Ring weeding should be done when necessary.
2. Shallow cultivation of the plant to a radius of at least 1 m should be done twice a year or as the need arises.
3. Mulch the tree with coconut husks or grasses to conserve soil moisture.
4. Pruning

• Judicious pruning should be done during the dry season.
• Cut surfaces should be applied with copper fungicides.
• Start pruning when the plants is 1.5 m tall.
• Decapitate the apical shoot to a height of 1 m to induce formation of secondary stems and bend the stems outward to promote good branching.
• When the plants are matured, prune every after harvest to remove diseased and weak branches, and shoots which grow parallel to secondary stem.

5. Flower Thinning

• Remove excess cluster of flowers that emerge in tertiary and small branches, short clusters (less than 3 inches) and overcrowded clusters to prevent deformities in fruits.

6. Fertilization

a. Vegetative Stage - Ammonium Sulfate (21-0-0) - 100 to 200 grams/tree/year
b. Bearing Stage - Complete Fertilizer (14-14-14)- 5 to 8 kg/tree/year after harvest

Drill or broadcast the fertilizer 1 m away from the base of the plant depending upon the topography of the land.

Harvesting:

• Harvest the fruits 140-150 days from flower formation to fruit ripening.
• Do the harvesting early in the morning or late in the afternoon.
• Harvest the fruits by climbing the tree and cut the ripe bunches with sharp cutters or pruning shears.

Post Harvest Handling:

• sort, clean, air dry and grade the harvested fruits.
• pack the fruits in cartons or crates with liners or cushion to reduce damage during handling.
• store the fruits in cold storage at 10 o C with relative humidity of 85-90 % to extend the shelf-life of the harvested fruits.

Source and Photo courtesy: Orlando C. Pascua; RG Maghirang (ed.)(Edited August 2006); www. hvcc.da.gov.ph

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How to Franchise Generika Drugstore

This is a franchise that would enable you to help a lot of people looking for cheaper and generic medicines. While earning a good profit for you drugstore business, you also help people access cheap medicine.


Why invest in a Generika Drugstore Franchise?

1. You are investing in an industry which represents a basic need of humanity. Health related expenses are going up worldwide, in virtually all countries. This industry, because it represents a daily need of people, is less subject to sudden market changes, effects of fashion and other short term trends, or strong seasonality effects (although there is also a yearly seasonality).

2. Factors such as the aging of population, modern illnesses such as diabetis, cardiac disorders, hypertension and the like, combined with the tropic Filipino weather and the deterioration of the natural environment (pollution, asthma…), will all contribute to an increase of the total drugs market spending in the coming years. The rapid growth of the Filipino population will increase this even further.

3. Because majority of the Filipino belongs to the lower economic class and can’t really afford the high price of branded medicines, and have to buy medicines from their own pockets in the absence of a system of health care that reimburses medicine, the concern for high prices is there and there is tremendous opportunity for the generics market in the Philippines as a cost-effective alternative to branded medicines, especially if the retail pharmacies can develop and maintain an image of professionalism and quality. More affluent Filipinos are also target customers, as they will also accept generic medicines as an alternative to branded ones, provided that they feel confident in the quality of the medicines and service given. In fact, the examples of the European and US markets show that, in rich countries, the generic market is very developed and accounts for up to fifty per cent of the total drug market value.

4. The Generics Law of 1988 establishes a very favorable legal framework, which authorizes substitution of branded medicines by their generic counterparts under the guidance of a licensed pharmacist, and requires pharmaceutical companies and health practitioners to use generic names. Recent governements efforts to promote generic medicines further lead to a growing awareness and openness of the Filipino public to generics.

5. It is important for you to choose the right player and to invest into a chain of drugstores which you can trust. At Generika, we assure you of the following :

a) We have a track record of sixteen company owned stores operating successfully. We have operated for more than 4 years and we serve about 3 million transactions every year.

b) We have the widest range of generic medicines among all drugstores. We want to be the pioneers of generic retail distribution and be the first ones to carry all new generic medicines now available on the market

c) We have a name which is catchy and easy to remember : GENERIKA

d) We have a clear emphasis on building an image of quality and service through carefully selected medicines, attractive store premises, airconditioning to preserve the therapeutic values of medicines and provide convenience to our customers, professional staff, computerized operations… At Generika, you can expect patient counseling by approachable Licensed Pharmacists and well-trained Pharmacy Assistants.

e) We provide a series of valued added services, like free blood pressure, affordable blood sugar testing, complemented by regular free check up organized in our outlets. We also support several community outreach programs.

f) In partnership with Novelis Solutions’ Retail Expert, we are building superior information systems to serve customers better and manage the store sales and inventory effectively: customer database, medical information, medicine alternatives, price comparison database, automated ordering replenishment system. We have a team of programmers working all day to improve our information systems. This will give us a clear advantage over our competitors.
 
Franchise package includes :

• The right to use the Generika trademark and logo
• Location and market study assistance: because location is a major factor of success, we take extra steps to validate the target site’s sales potential. We organize free traffic counts for you. We also suggest sites which we have already evaluated.
• Architectural/store design and construction assistance
•Start-up and pre-opening assistance. Target is to open the site between 4 to six weeks after the signing of the franchise agreement.
• HR support in the assistance in the recruitment of store personnel
• Pharmacists and Pharmacy Assistants
•Extensive training on pharmacy retailing and management, computerized operation and customer service
•Three computers per store, complete with the necessary printers and other peripherals and installed with Retail Expert, our exclusive Point-of-Sale (POS) system to manage sales transactions, inventories and facilitate customer service.
• All necessary pharmaceutical and operations supplies
• The initial inventory – amounting to about 300,000 Pesos

Interested parties, please contact:

Mr. Edward Arban,
Business Development Manager,
824-4685 or 703-4703
0922-898-4982
franchising@generika.com.ph.

Source: http://www.generika.com.ph

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