The professor served the coffee with a new found product. Instead of white sugar or artificial sweetener, he offered them a natural alternative — a sweetener extracted from the coconut tree. It tasted so good, their conversation reached an all time sweetened high to churn something up!

The professor went to Mindanao and, on a handshake, began paving the way for a long-term livelihood program for the Filipino farming community.

In Manila, the wheels churned to come up with the proper packaging that will ensure that the sweetener, being 100% all-natural, will reach consumers as fresh as it was the day it was carefully packed.

Two years later, Suchero was born.