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Maria Orosa Freedom Fighter: Scientist and Inventor from the Philippines

Maria Orosa Freedom Fighter: Scientist and Inventor from the Philippines

Olizon-Chikiamco, Norma
Salvatus, Mark

Hardcover

BiographyGeneral Juvenile NonfictionScience & Nature

Publisher Price: $8.99

PREORDER - Expected ship date December 8, 2026

ISBN10: 0804860092
ISBN13: 9780804860093
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Published: Dec 8 2026
Pages: 32
Language: English
**Freeman Book Awards - Honorable Mention - Children's and Young Adult's Literature on East and Southeast Asia

As a food scientist, she sought to reduce the Philippines' dependence on imported food, pioneering new ways to use local products. And that was before she became a war hero. --New York Times

This delightful children's book follows the life of Maria Orosa--a pioneering woman scientist who studied food science in the United States then returned to a war-torn Philippines and created super-nutritious foods to help her nation in a time of crisis.

A champion of native products from her homeland, Orosa is celebrated for her daring war exploits as well as her scientific inventions. Today she is honored and remembered for:

  • Sneaking food into World War II internment camps concealed in hollow tubes of bamboo
  • Working as an undercover agent in the underground forces fighting the Japanese occupation
  • Developing new ways to preserve seasonal products in a time of grave food shortages, including making vinegar from pineapples, flour from cassava and ketchup from bananas-- all now staples on Filipino tables
  • Transforming vitamin-rich rice bran, previously a waste product, into tasty disease-preventing desserts
  • Organizing rural-improvement clubs, inventing the palayok or clay oven and developing delicious recipes for coconuts, soybeans and a range of native plants, vegetables and herbs

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