BusinessWorld
February 18, 2021 | 12:03 am
Itâs not butter, itâs not margarine, its coconut
âI CANâT believe itâs not butter!â said the person who managed to coin the exclamation as the name for the US brand of butter substitutes. I wish I could have said the same when I first spread Sagana on my pan de sal one afternoon.
Sagana is a vegan butter substitute made by a Swiss-Filipino social enterprise of the same name founded by Swiss-Filipina Sharon Cattleya Romero-Faude and her Manila-based sister Sheila, along with three other board members. Formed in Geneva in 2014, the three Swiss board members-mentors support the project âwith their entrepreneurial spirit and relevant expertise in Swiss-EU food law, accounting and finance, strategic planning and luxury marketing,â said Ms. Faude in an e-mail to