The mixture of soybean powder and dragon fruit peel powder as high fiber functional drink
Nita Maria Rosiana, Arinda Lironika Suryana, Zora Olivia
Clinical Institution, Politeknik Negeri Jember
Abstract
Dietary fiber intake provides many health benefits. Individuals with low intakes of dietary fiber appear to be at significantly higher risk for stroke, obesity, diabetes,hypertension, certain gastrointestinal diseases, and coronary heart disease. Functional drink with higher fiber is expected to increase fiber intake in society. The aims of the research is to investigated the charateristic of the mixture of of soybean powder and dragon fruit peel powder as functional drink. All experiment were designed in complete random. Dragon fruit peel powder and soy powder were mixed according to the treatments. The result showed that dragon fuit peel powder give higher water content, soluble, insoluble and total dietary fiber. Moreover the color functional drink from dragon fuit peel powder have darker dan red color.
Keywords: dietary fiber, dragon fruit peel powder, functional drink, soya powder
Topic: Food Science and Technology