FUNGSIONAL BEVERAGES INSTANT GINGER POWDER (Zingiber officinale rosc)WITH THE ADDITION OF BULBULUS EXTRACT VARIATION (Eleutherine Americana Merr) AS NATURAL DYES

Authors

  • Encik Eko Rifkowaty

Abstract

Antioxidant is a good compound for health because it scavenges free radicals in the body. The addition of bulbulus extract is expected to increase the antioxidant activity of the instant ginger powder. This study aimed to determine the effect of variation bulbulus extract addition on moisture content, reducing sugar, and antioxidant activity, as well as  preferency of instant ginger powder. Research was conducted using Completely Randomized Design (CRD) consisting of single factor with three (3) repeatitions. Organoleptic test was peformed on three attributes: namely color, taste, and texture. Result showed that the addition of bulbulus extract, Based on Anava and LSD test of the moisture content and reduction sugar, every treatment was significantly different. However, teh treatment did not  significant affect on the antioxidan activity. GC-MS analysis, enriched with bulbulus extract show that instant gnger powder it is assumed that the variation of of bulbulus extract addition bubulus extract contain important  of compounds such as eleuthherol (88,79 %), gingerol (1,18 %)and zingiberene( 10,03 %). Organoleptic test demonstrate that the addition of consumer
Keywords: instant ginger powder, bulbulus extract, antioxidant, preferensi

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Published

2016-01-30