If you love discovering and buying good quality local food products, then you should definitely check Foodsource PH. At Foodsource PH, you can find a variety of bottled food, spreads, flavored and alcoholic drinks, chips, dips and sauces, and even seasonings, just to name a few. What’s unique about these items is that they are all 100% Filipino made.

Foodsource PH is an e-commerce platform that curates the top local food brands. The objective of Foodsource PH is to act as an ecosystem for SMEs and aid in growing them from local to global by highlighting the best that they have to offer. 

In doing so, Foodsource PH  hopes to inspire local enterprises and manufacturers on what Filipinos can do and achieve in terms of making quality and world-class products 

Furthermore, Foodsource PH is also aiming to promote local products among Filipino consumers so that they will be encouraged to buy home-grown items and integrate these into their everyday lives.

According to Foodsource PH founder and owner Marlon Tong, “Our goal is to really help create this into a lifestyle of incorporating local products into their daily diets. We honestly believe this is what made Jollibee the global brand that it is now, by having Pinoys from all over the world as its ambassadors. Though we know it’s still a long shot, we’re really hopeful that we can eventually get there someday.”

Foodsource PH is also advocating e-commerce as it believes that the use of technology can remove the reliance on very traditional commerce which is too costly for SMEs.

Foodsource PH is currently retailing 70 local brands and over 350 products on its website. If you are browsing through their website, you would notice that these products are grouped into various categories: Bottled Delicacies, Snacks, Health Foods, Condiments, Hot Sauce, Wines & Liquors, Jams & Spreads, Pickles, Chocolates, Coconut Based, Drinks & Juices, and Sweetener. Alternatively, you can also browse by brand.

I know it can be a bit overwhelming and time-consuming to browse through all of these products, so here are my top picks:

I bought my two jars of TheBasics Peanut Butter from Foodsource PH. I like that it was an easy transaction. 

All I had to do was add the products to my cart, enter my shipping details, and pay my orders either via bank deposit or through PayPal. What’s also good about Foodsource PH was that my orders arrived the next day, which is already quite fast for delivery standards these days.

Also read: TheBasics Peanut Butter: Healthy Choices Without Compromising Taste

I love chicharon but I’m more intrigued with bagnet chicharon which sounds more sinful and flavorful as compared to the regular ones. 

APP Authentic Provincial Products offers original and flavored bagnet chicharon that are available in resealable bags so that you wouldn’t be forced (or tempted) to consume the chicharon in a single sitting.

We all know of the health benefits of consuming products derived from coconuts. However, what we normally see in markets and grocery stores are just coconut oil and coconut milk. 

Cocoplus offers skimmed coconut milk; this is definitely great for those who are looking for vegan alternatives to regular milk. Aside from, skimmed coconut milk, there is also coconut sugar, coconut cooking oil in 4-liter containers, and virgin coconut oil in 1-liter and 250 ml. bottles.

If you love zesty sauces and seasonings, then you will definitely love Saint C bottled dips. 

It has three variants: the pure all-purpose calamansi citrus seasoning, the cocomansi or coconut amino and calamansi sauce, and the pure all-natural coconut vinegar. Use Saint C as dips or in your favorite dishes to add a splash of fresh taste to your meals.

I love Kaon Gourmet Bottled Delicacies because they offer many of my favorite food like the Spanish-style tawilis and Bicolano dishes such as Gourmet Santol sa Gata and Gourmet Laing. 

These are familiar flavors that I remember liking so much when we visited Albay or when my Bicolano friends cooked these food items and invited us to their homes for lunch.

I also saw that Kaon Gourmet offers bottled burong hipon or fermented shrimp in rice which I seldom taste even when I am at home in Nueva Ecija. I love burong hipon as dips for steamed vegetables and fried or grilled fish. 

Those are the five local food products that caught my attention at Foodsource PH. What I like most about the products I mentioned above is that they are reasonably priced. In fact, I feel that you are actually getting more from these products because they are made of ingredients that are beneficial to one’s body. 

They are perfect for your own consumption at home or as gift items for your friends and loved ones on special occasions.

There are so many more worthwhile products that you can discover and order from Foodsource PH that’s why you need to visit their website and online shop. 

If you are like me who is advocating support to local small businesses as well as the consumption of healthy and all-natural food products, then Foodsource PH is definitely for you.

To learn more about Foodsource PH as well as the products that it sells, you may visit https://foodsource.ph/.