Developing Online Database of Food Recipes with Indigenous Ingredients

This paper presents the development of an online database of food recipes with indigenous ingredients. The system is called “dapogan” which is aimed to allow food developers to share and promote foods made from indigenous ingredients using the Internet. It is a content management system integrated with social networking facilities and multimedia capabilities. A rapid application development was used during the development. Development tools include Windows 7, WAMP Server 2.0, PHP, Notepad++ and Adobe Photoshop CS5. The proposed system was evaluated by 24 student-users it yields a 9.7 weighted mean which is described as compliant. This entails that the proposed system is highly acceptable in terms of its usability among the users.