Improve the Potential of Bakas Village "Daun Pandan Harum", FTP Unud Develops Herbal Tea Products

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• Kamis, 16 Juni 2022
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Collaboration between Lecturer from Food Technology and Agroindustrial Technology Study Program of The Faculty of Agricultural Technology, Udayana University (FTP Unud) develops herbal tea products by raising the potential of Bakas Village, Klungkung Regency. One of the local potentials that can be utilized is fragrant pandan leaves.

 

Lecturer Team of FTP Unud consisting of Dr. Ir. Luh Putu Wrasiati, M.P., and Dr. Dewa Ayu Anom Yuarini, S.TP., M.Agb. from the Agroindustrial Technology Study Program with I Gede Arie Mahendra Putra, S.TP., M.TP. and Putu Julyantika Nica Dewi, S.TP., M.TP. from the Food Technology Study Program developed a herbal tea product based on fragrant pandan leaves to lift the potential that exists in Bakas Village, Klungkung Regency.

 

The product developed is a herbal tea product that can be derived from a variety of ingredients, both spices and flowers, to which each product can be added with fragrant pandan leaves to enhance the aroma and taste of the product. One of the ingredients that can be mixed in the development of herbal tea with pandan leaves is ingredients such as ginger, lemon grass, secang wood, telang flower, pearl flower and others that have undergone a drying process. The benefits provided by herbal teas are because herbal teas consisting of spices and flowers such as ginger, lemongrass stalks, secang wood, telang flowers, pearl flowers and others contain bioactive components that can function as antioxidants.

 

One of the representatives Mrs. Dr. Ir. Luh Putu Wrasiati, M.P. explained that the development of this product is used to lift the potential that exists in Bakas Village, Klungkung Regency, namely fragrant pandanus. According to her, the addition of dry fragrant pandan leaves to each mixture of herbal tea products produced can have a good effect on the resulting beverage, such as providing aroma and taste, providing a relaxing effect and improving the quality of the product. She also said that herbal tea with pandan leaves can be further developed into ready-drinks and if packaged with good packaging techniques it can potentially be used as a superior product to support tourism originating from Bakas Klungkung Village, considering the potential of pandan leaves found in Bakas Village is very high. abundant, she said.