Preservation of Cavite’s Traditional Foods from the Selected Municipalities as Adapted by the Millennials

The purpose of this research is to determine the level of preservation of Cavite’s Traditional Foods from the Selected Municipalities as adapted by the Millennials. Specifically, the study aimed to identify the demographic profile of the respondents in terms of age, gender, and occupational  status; determine the level of awareness of millennials on the traditional  foods of Cavite; identify the sources and references of the information of traditional foods in terms of traditional knowledge, local community, festivals, and food historian, and lastly, to determine the level of preservation of traditional foods of Cavite in terms of importance of family recipe, legacy of food, and infusion. Descriptive type of research was utilized in this study. Based from the result of the survey, majority of the participant’s age ranges from 18to 22 years old, most of them are females and the participants who responded the most are students. The result of awareness of millennials on traditional foods shows that they are aware of the traditional foods because most of the participants have seen and tasted these traditional foods already. On the identification of the resources of information of traditional foods with the overall mean of 3.08, most of the participants are aware of the sources of information of traditional foods. Based on the findings on the preservation of traditional foods with the overall mean of 3.34, participants highly agreed that the traditional foods of Cavite are highly preserved.

Keywords: Preservation, Awareness, Millennials, Traditional Foods, Cavite