Showing posts with label lambanog. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lambanog. Show all posts

Monday, February 8, 2016

Reuse of pet plastic bottles for water storage and liquor can be toxic

Live healthy and long

Rizal Philippines
February 7, 2016

WORLD-CLASS. The 6-month-old lambanog brand Lakan hopes to raise the bar for the lambanog industry. All photos by Naoki Mengua/Rappler
                                                 In glass and 90% proof, 9x distilled

Why is alcohol sold in glass and not in plastic bottles?

From Rappler - Lakan super premium Lambanog 90 proof

On my bike rides I have seen outlets of lambanog and the very potent lambanog (what 90% proof?) are stored and sold in pet bottles (of water)  Now I  have learned that PET bottles and plastics emit hazardous vapor and chemicals  ((ethylene glycol and terephthalic acid) which has the tendency to leach to considerable extent if alcohol i that are bad for the health.

It could be that the lambanog has methanol, the dangerous alcohol.  The ethanol is the good alcohol.

Would that practice be not dangerous?  I have advised the seller to sell the same in recycled bottles made of glass.

What do you think?

STREET-SIDE. Lambanog is sold in street-side stores like this one in Tiaong, Quezon for P100 for 3 bottles or P250 a gallon
                                    Lambanog in Tiaong Quezon practices food safety are in glasses,
                                     Tuba is in plastic bottles

Lambanog could be a $1billion export industry and gives rebirth to the ailing (senile) coconut industry.  All ready, buko juice is making waves as a sports drink in the west.   This will give more jobs to mangangarit, coconut growers and distillers

A mgangarit could earn as much as P500.00 per day, a coconut farmer supplying coconut flower nectar for lambanog export could up the income of coconut farm from P30,000 a year (for supplying copra) to P300,000 (ten fold increase to lambanog export.

From Business Inquirer - Lakan Lambanog, the Philippine export drink for nobility

 Lakan, winner of Gold Award at 53rd  World Selection of Spirits and Liquors by                    Monde Selection International Istitute. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO/Roger Pe


 Handcrafted by master artisans, distilled in meticulous, multi-stage process, purity is never compromised. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO/Roger Pe


Lakan, extra-premium Philippine "Lambanog," now a world-class brand. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO/Roger Pe
                                            Distilled 4 to 6 times from nectar of coconut flower

Brand warriors Jenny and Tony Manguiat. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO/Roger Pe
                               Jenny and Tony Manguiat, the brains behind the Lakan Lambanog,
                               /adviser is Lawrence Lim, the Lambanog king