Definition
Fresh Fruits includes any fresh or unprocessed fruit consumed by the family such as banana, papaya, pineapple, santol, tamarind, mango, melon, avocado, durian, mangosteen, citrus fruits such as calamansi, dalandan, orange, etc. Note that fruits like papaya, tamarind, jackfruit, and others, whether ripe or green should be included here. Fresh Vegetables includes unprocessed vegetables consumed by the family. Leafy vegetables are pechay, gabi leaves, camote tops, kangkong, cabbage, malunggay, ampalaya leaves, squash leaves, etc. Fruit vegetables covers fruit-bearing vegetable crops such as upo, ampalaya, chayote, cucumber, eggplant, tomato, squash, etc. Green/Dry Beans and Other Legumes includes baguio beans/ habichuelas, sitsaro, mongo, sigarillas, string beans, togue, etc. Other Vegetables includes carrots, onions, and other such as katuray, radish, broccoli, banana blossom, cauliflower and other flowers used or eaten as vegetables. Other Crops covers other edible crops not covered above such as peanuts, young and matured coconut, "ubod", pili nut and other nuts, cashew, macapuno, bamboo shoots (labong), etc. Fruit Preparations includes all processed fruits, fruit preparations, whether canned or uncanned, packed or unpacked, such as fruit jams/jellies, fruit preserves like pineapples, peaches, pickled fruits, dried mangoes, sweet tamarind, fruit cocktails, marmalades, banana cue, nata de pina, etc. Vegetable Preparations includes all processed vegetables and vegetable preparations, whether canned or uncanned, packed or unpacked, like canned pea, pickled vegetables, mustasang buro, taho, tausi, tokwa and other bean products, pork and beans, ready-mixed packages, etc. Other Preparations includes other preparations like sweetened macapuno, nata de coco, sweetened kaong, peanut brittle, peanut butter, instant "gata" in sachets, coffeesoy, etc.