Friday, July 20, 2007

Sayote Can Cause High Blood Pressure

Sayote, a green vegetable that grows freely in Philex. It is a vine and grown over a a web of wires. It is edible from the tip to the leaves (the tender ones), flower, the vegetable, the seed but not the roots. You can mix it with all to come up with a dish, sardines with sayote, egg with sayote, pork with sayote, beef with sayote, chicken with sayote, shrimp with sayote, fish with sayote, sayote with sayote... etc. etc.... You may grill, boil, fry, if not bake it, just use ur imagination. I also tried sayote as sweets. Sayote was a source of income for me and my brothers back then, we go to the kasayotian and gather the vegetable with ulnos, and sell it to the stores who buy them per kilo. The magic of this plant is that it is a source of high blood pressure. Though it is mainly made up of water, when cooked with pork, beef and chicken it can cause high blood. Or when a father comes home from work and asks his wife what is in store for dinner , wife says, 'Inlambong nga sayote'.... Husband goes high blood and says 'Sayote manen?'... But this wonderful vegetable, who had been a part of my meals at Philex, from breakfast, lunch, dinner, merienda, pulutan and all.... Everyone of us knows this because this wonderful vegetable had extended our meals so that it will feed everyone in the family. Beside I owe what I am now to this amazing vegetable....

2 comments:

SLAZH said...

Agpaysu ta kunam nga makapa-high blood ti sayote. Diay duwa nga anak ko, ubbing da pay laeng, kasla nga 4 or 5 years old dan sa pay laeng idi ket adda high blood dan. Manggeg da pay laeng kenni baket ko nga sayote ti sida mi ket ibarsak dan dyay plato ken saan da nga manganen, ngem idi nabisinan dan ket mangan da met laeng ti sayote, nagadu latta ti nakan dagidiay annak ko idi, basta sayote, uray inya ti rikado nan, mayat latta.

Anonymous said...

wahahahaha True. Isunga nagdadakel kami nga agkakabsat gapu met lang to sayote hehehehehehe. ngem tata ket birukbiruken mi ti sayote. Malagip ko pay, apam kami ijay kasayutian saan nga agpuros ti sayote kundi apan kami ijay tapno kanen mi jay balon mi habang jay nagannak mi ket busy da nga agburburas ti sayote. nahangin gamin yah ket nag-imas nga maturog under the sayote vine heheheh