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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
who are having will to come forward succeed, Research is like a bridge between
The researcher wish to extend their since gratitude to the supreme power
almighty father for the continuous grace and guidance, his divine hands are
always felt always guided us to work on the right path of our life, enabling to the
researcher to face many challenges and coming out of it successful and who
The researcher would like to thank, first of all, they would like to express their
special gratitude to their beloved parents and family members for financial and
They will also like to thank Bambad National High School for giving them an
opportunity in conducting their study, through this study, they learned a lot of
things.
To Ma’am Emely L. Laspinas, the research adviser and also our supportive and
finish their study, they are very grateful for having her as their research teacher,
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they her for courage, guidance, patience, motivate, educate and sharing her
The researcher would like to say thank you to the student of Grade 10-STE OF
survey questionnaire for their active participation in order to conduct of this study
And lastly, the researcher would also like to extend their warmest gratitude and
thanks to the different resources and who helped for them, that we have used to
May the Almighty God bless all of you and more powers to come!
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Table of contents
Pages
TITLE PAGE i
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT II
TABLE OF CONTENTS IV
INTRODUCTION
METHODOLOGY
Locale of the Study 9
Research Method 10
Population Frame and Sampling Scheme 10
Description of Respondents 11
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Research Instruments 11
Data Gathering 11
Statistical Treatment of Data 12
PROCEDURE 24
Research Design 26
References 27
Appendix 30
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INTRODUCTION
In the Philippines 1 out of 5 or 1/5 of children does not eat bitter melon
(Tremblay S, 2017) meaning to say that 20% of children doesn’t eat this
vegetable due to its extreme bitterness and unpleasant taste, bitter melon is
hated disliked by most of people especially children, it is the major enemy for
most of children due to its bitter taste.
Nowadays many parents, guardians and even grandparents are forcing and
encouraging their children to eat vegetable especially bitter melon even against
to the children to eat this bitter taste vegetable. Bravo J. (2011)
Due to their ease and availability (Maity et al., 2012; Pedreschi and Moyano
2005), deep-fat fried vegetables and fruit chips (having 35-45 percent oil content)
are covering a wide spectrum in the food market around the world (Maity et al.,
2012; Pedreschi and Moyano 2005) [18, 19]. However, today's consumers are
continually looking for low-fat snacks with appealing color, texture, and taste, as
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excessive intake of high-oil fried foods can lead to obesity and other disorders
such as cardiovascular disease (Akinpelu et al., 2014; Pedreschi and Moyano
2005)
In today’s global world more and more people are getting and gaining
various diseases and illnesses due to the unhealthy snack and poor diet
according Habicht SD, (2011) states that approximately 10,000,000 people
across the world died per year because of unhealthy diet and poor quality of
snack food. Tan Parks, (2014)
This investigatory project will identify if truly the bitterness of ampalaya would
not exist. Also through this, we can know what are its great effect in our lives
including its benefits in food economy and healthcare.
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Statement of the Problem
The investigatory project aims to determine and to find out how the bitterness of
Ampalaya or Bitter melon will work out on the products desire flavor and also on
the benefits that can make for our country
The research is focusing on making chips using ampalaya or bitter melon and it
aim to answer the following question:
1.1 Taste
1.2 Odor
1.3 Texture
1.4 Appearance
The level of Bitter melon chips to the consumers by considering the following
factors the Appearance, Odor, Taste, Texture is Agree on its Acceptability.
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simultaneously lowering the risk of obesity and diabetes, especially for today’s
technology-driven kids who are sedentary and have poor dietary habits.
Bitter melon is undoubtedly one of the most bitter vegetables on the planet,
thanks to the presence of Momordicin, which makes feeding it to youngsters
even more difficult. To make eating bitter melon more enticing to youngsters, we
fried them as chips, which were appealing enough for them to eat while yet
retaining their nutrients.
For Students. For those students they need to eat different kind of vegetables
specially ampalaya or bitter melon because it has a different nutrient found in
Ampalaya or bitter melon that our body needs.
Consumer. Many of the Filipinos love to eat vegetables because of that, there is
a possibility that consumer will patronized this kind of vegetable product.
Future Researcher. This study gives an idea for the future researchers to
innovate food and serve as a reference for future studies to be conducted by
future researcher. This could also bring enough interest to Ampalaya or bitter
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melon and thus future researchers would be interested in investing time, money
and effort in researching the vegetable. This will be set as guide for their
thesis/case study.
Children. They are the primary beneficiaries of the study and this study would
help the children realize the importance of consuming Ampalaya. Also, it will
would be beneficial to them because the product is convenient to eat, cheap, and
can satisfy their cravings.
Teachers. The study will also benefit the teachers because the paper can be
used as an instruments for education. This study can be used as an example of
why student researchers should focus on developing other food products for
Ampalaya or bitter melon.
The researchers are limited this study on the production of the bitter melon
chips and determining its acceptability to the consumers by its appearance,
aroma, texture, and taste. Respondents will identify through random sampling
techniques where in respondents will carefully select from the common
consumers of snack chips. Nutritional content of bitter melon chips will be tested
in Grade 10-STE Student of Bambad National High School.
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Conceptual Framework
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which consist of introducing Acceptability of Bitter Melon as dip Chips in Bambad
National High School.
Diabetes – A serious disease in which the body cannot properly control the
amount of sugar in your blood because it does not have enough insulin.
Non - Vegetarian – Used to refer or to meat that contains meat or person who
eat verna, N.(2001).
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Odor- A sensation perceived by the sense of smell or scent, a distinctive smell,
especially an unpleasant one, a lingering quality, impression or feeling attaching
to something, Marcili, B. (2001).
Sweet Dip – Is a kind of dressing that usually sweet and colorful Ojudo, C.
(2010)
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Research Methodology
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become a dip chips.
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The researcher used Mix method because it focused on the quantitative type
because data in this research will be easily evaluated, presented through
numbers and the study is experimental because the researchers will be testing
out gathered data on how the bitter melon chips will be acceptable to the
consumers population and sampling.
And also for the process the researcher formulated a researcher-made survey
questionnaire which is qualitative research that’s why mix method is the research
method by the researcher
Description of Respondents
The Participants of the study are the Grade 10-STE Students of Bambad
National High School. Many of the students here likes eating or consuming
different kind of chips, that’s why researcher made a better chip with the help of
bitter melon, because the bitter melon contains a lot of nutrients like those are
Vitamin B, Iron, Folic Acid, Phosphoros and Calcium. That”s why researcher
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focused for the participants for the Grade 10 – STE students participants in the
Bambad National High School. Because Researcher known that their a
possibility to gather more information and data with the help of generous
respondents
Research Instruments
The researcher gathered the data and information from the respondents by
giving a survey test. The questions were formulated based on the research
questions. A survey questionnaire consists a variable those are (A) Taste, (B)
Texture, (C) Odor, and last is (D) for Apperance and each variable has specific
questions regarding their categories. A survey type of test consists of 12 items
was designed and distributed according to 5 likers scale: Strongly Agree, Agree,
Average, Disagree, Strongly Disagree.
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National High School, perfectly 22 test questionnaire were retrieved by the
researchers.
The researchers determined the results of their survey after they have done
assessing all the target respondents’ answers on the given survey by checking
their answers for each item. The collected data was recorded and the results
were organized in manual that was used in data analysis of the researchers.
The collected data of the results of the survey questionnaire taken by the
Grade 10 – STE students in Bambad National High School was item analyzed
and described in terms of central tendencies. The researcher then used the
mean formula to calculate the total average rating of the students. Mean is used
to synthesize the large numbers of summation of scores to reveal the collective
characteristic of results of test. Then, the total average rating of cognitive
effectiveness in Likert scale was calculated using mean. And to calculate the
mean, the researchers simply add up a set of scores and divide by the numbers
of scores. Thus, the researchers had their first and perhaps.
Where:
N= Population
n= Sample size
e= Margin of error
Materials
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Sr.No. Name of Ingredients or Amount of Ingredients
materials used
4. Salt 2gm
Procedure
Selection of raw material
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Select the good quality of bitter gourd or bitter melon for making the chips. It
should be mature, free from damage. Especially select the variety named as “
PHULE PRIYANKA” from the market. It is in green in colour and low in
bitterness. That’s why we select this variety.
Washing
Washing is carried out under running tap water to remove the extraneous
water matter for example dirt, dust, soil particles, pesticidal residues etc. from the
surface of the bitter gourd or bitter melon.
Slicing
Prepare the slices of bitter melon with the help of clean & sharp slicer and
first you have to combing in to small pieces of the selected bitter gourd or bitter
melon in their Dia wise area, here need not measurement.
Boiling
Then add small amount of water and little salt with that sliced bitter melons,
bill then to 15mins, do to this we can get softer chips.
Treat these slices with 2% of salt and the 1% of the turmeric powder and
keep it for overnight to reduce the bitterness.
Weight all the ingredients according to standard recipe, sieve it. Then add
following ingredients in that boiled bitter melon with don’t need to add water, I’m
refer here ingredients to 1/2kg of bitter melon
Mix all the ingredients with boiled bitter melon and allow all the ingredients
are separately fix with each other of the boiled bitter melon. Leave this spices
applied bitter melon 30mins in room condition, do this all the ingredients are
deeply get inside in the boiled bitter melon or bitter gourds.
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Take the prepared bitter melon slices in plate & sprinkling all of the mixed
ingredients on it
Deep frying is carried out in the edible oil (Soybean oil), till chips becomes
golden brown in colour which makes which makes it crispy or after 30 mins deep
fry these bitter gourds in oil and make it chips
Draining
After frying chips were removed & drained on the paper or tissue to reduce
oil contain or to absorb all the excess oil from the vegetable (bitter melon).
MELON
Corn Flour Soaking AS
DIP CHIPS
Salt Turmeric Powder Mixing of Ingredients
Edible Oil
Sprinkling
Chili Powder
Frying
Coriander Powder
Draining
Chaat Masala
Seasoning
Water
Packaging
References
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https://www.livestrong.com/article/490752-nutrients-found-in-ampalaya/?
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https://food.ndtv.com/food-drinks/7-health-benefits-of-bitter-melon-
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https://www.endocrineweb.com/conditions/type-1-diabetes/what- insulin
Bahrum, L. (2017). How does bitter melon affect blood sugar levels? Retrived
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https://www.stylecraze.com/articles/side-effects-of-bitter-melon/#gref
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Ahmed I, Lakhani MS, Sharma MS. Effect of bitter gourd fruit juice on the hepatic
Pharmacol.1998;52:1630-1642
Akinpelu OR, Idowu MA, Sobukola OP, Henshaw F, Sanni SA, Bodunde G
Alam MA, Uddin R, Subhan N,Rahman MM, Jain P, Reza HM. Beneficial Role
70:C275- C280
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Islam S,Jalaluddin M, Hettiarachchy NS. Bioactive compounds of Bitter Melon
2013;3:93-102.
Kumar S, Sagar VR. Bitter Gourd not bad at all. Processed Food Industry. 2003;
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94:1896-1903.
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APPENDIX
Fig 3: Show the bitter melon vegetable, and its procedure in making bitter
melon chips
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APPENDIX
Researcher Survey Questionnaire (Instrument)
Research Title:
Acceptability of Bitter Melon as Dip Chips Questionnaire
INSTRUMENT
Name (OPTIONAL)________________________________ Grade &
Section:_____
I. Demographic profile of the respondents
Gender: ( ) Male ( ) Female
Age
10 – 11 ( ) 14 – 15 ( ) 18 – 19 ( )
12 – 13 ( ) 16 – 17 ( )
Directions: For each statement in the survey, please indicate how much you
agree or disagree with the statement by putting a check in the box on the right
side of each statement. There are no right or wrong answers. Your answers will
be kept strictly confidential and you will not be identified.
Scale: 5 – Strongly Agree (Indicates that the characteristic is always manifested)
4 – Agree (Indicates that the characteristic is often manifested)
3 – Neutral (Indicates that the characteristics is sometimes
manifested
2 – Disagree (Indicates that the characteristic is seldom manifested)
1 – Strongly Disagree (Indicates that the characteristic is never manifested.
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I. What is the level of bitter melon to the consumers by considering
the following factors:
1. The smell of
bitterness is noticeable
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1.3 Taste of Bitter melon chips to the consumers
Level of Bitter melon Strongly Agree Neutral Disagree Strongly
chips to the consumers Agree Disagree
(5) (4) (3) (2) (1)
1. The Bitterness of
Bitter melon is lessened
3.The combination of
Bitter melon and dip
chips is enough
1. The crispyness of
Bitter melon chips is
retain
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APPENDIX
Documentation
The Respondents While Answering the Researcher survey questionnaire
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APPENDIX
Respondents tasting the bitter melon chips and answering
the researcher survey Questionnaire
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APPENDIX
Gathered survey Questionnaire by the Researchers
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WORKPLAN
Research Goal
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Gathering of materials
To conduct procedure
on how to cook the
bitter melon chips
Finalize sensor
evaluation and submit
to the adviser for
consulting
To conduct research
questions for survey
interview to selected
individuals/respondents
Discussion forum
questions about the
response of forum
titled:’’the problem is”
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