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Maria Ylagan Orosa and the Chemistry of Resistance

Lady Science · July 2020

Orosa was the first person to can and freeze mangoes, made vinegar from pineapples, and invented banana ketchup. During the occupation she smuggled rations into an internment camp inside hollowed bamboo. Her recipes are still on shelves. Her name came off them.

Cited by the New York Times and the National Park Service; featured in Appetite for Freedom.

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