High cases of side effects such as nose-bleeding and mucosal dryness due to synthetic treatments of acne lead to the implementation of plant extracts in topical formulations as alternative treatments. Cinnamon bark essential oil (CBEO) (Cinnamomum burmannii) and Turmeric essential oil (TEO) (Curcuma Longa) and have proven antibacterial efficacy against acne-causing bacteria, Staphylococcus …
Pickering emulsions using solid particles to stabilize emulsions are common in the food industry. By-products like rhizome pomace from the herbal beverage jamu are often discarded despite containing valuable compounds. Kaempferia galanga L. (aromatic ginger or kencur) is widely used in jamu Beras Kencur for its health benefits. This research focused on the valorization of aromatic ginger by…
The increasing popularity of pasta is correlated with both modern and busy consumer lifestyles where versatility and convenience become a major key factor in consumer perception and buying decisions. In order to fulfill the market demand, a modern approach to optimize the nutritional value as well as the physical properties of pasta by fortifications has been promoted. One example of the for…
Pasta is a popular option for many consumers in the world wide. Colored pasta is one creative method to draw consumers' visual. Red fruit oil (RFO) is one of the natural colorants available. RFO has low solubility and sensitive to external conditions. An innovative solution to the problem is using encapsulation to convert oil-based components into powder-based ones. This study aims to examin…
Natural colorant is currently preferred over synthetic colorant due to health reasons. Red fruit oil (RFO) extract becomes a potential orange-red natural source. However, limitation in solubility and susceptibility to external conditions is present. Encapsulation by co-crystallization can be utilized to solve the limitations. During the co-crystallization process, xylitol is utilized to repl…
Biofilm formation poses a significant health challenge, playing a role in the pathogenesis of biofilm-associated diseases, including dental caries, a chronic infectious disease with widespread prevalence that significantly impacts oral health. Lactobacillus acidophilus is one of the primary cariogenic microorganisms associated with the progression of dental caries. In order to address this …
Red fruit oil (RFO) extract serves as a natural red colorant but exhibits limitations related to solubility and susceptibility to environmental factors such as oxygen, heat, and light-induced degradation. Encapsulation through co-crystallization represents a promising approach to mitigate these challenges. In this context, erythritol is employed instead of sucrose during co-crystallization t…
Pasta is one of the most popular staple foods for many consumers. Colored pasta has emerged as a creative approach to improve product appearance. Red Fruit Oil (RFO) (Pandanus conoideus Lam) can serve as natural colorants with potential health benefits. Encapsulation method using spray drying was applied to RFO to lower the susceptibility and mask unpleasant sensory profiles. This project a…
Packaging preserves the quality of the finished product for consumption, storage, and transportation, making it one of the most crucial steps in producing food goods. In cheese products, molds can contribute to odor, distinctive flavor, consistency, and appearance and increase shelf life. However, some species might cause product spoilage. Thus, high-quality packaging is required to prevent mol…
One of the problems faced by palm oil industry and consumers is its susceptibility to lipid oxidation, leading to food deterioration. Therefore, there is a rise interest in antioxidant utilization, especially natural antioxidants to maintain the quality of oil and to prevent the oxidation. The objective of this study was to observe the effect of antioxidant utilization towards the oxidation lev…
Red fruit oil (Pandanus conoideus Lam.) is a carotenoid rich oil originating from Papua and a potential source of natural food colorant. Due to its volatile form, a preservation method through encapsulation by spray drying was applied in this study. Maltodextrin and whey protein isolate were used as carrier agents, five formulations were made at different concentrations (formula A (MD only),…
Plant-based nugget (PBN) is a succulent and firm alternative to the chicken nugget with a meat-like texture. PBN often has low sensory acceptability compared to chicken nugget and the direct fat incorporation was reported to cause fat leakage during cooking and the effect was suboptimal. Therefore, the effects of structured fats (solid and liquid mixture) incorporation in the form of emulsion t…
Phosphorous acid is a safer and more environmentally friendly alternative to commercial pesticides as it contains a component called phosphite that exhibits fungicidal and bactericidal activities. Foliar spraying and soil drenching are two methods of exposure to phosphite that must be carefully conducted because an excessive amount of phosphite is toxic to plants, impairing their growth and dev…
The author was doing an internship at PT. Alamii Natura Sejahtera as a research and development intern for 6 months starting from July 2023 – January 2024. The author has several responsibilities including doing research for both optimizing existing product production processes as well as new product development. Additionally, the author also helps the team with the document-making for BPOM-r…
Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a multifactorial chronic relapsing inflammatory skin disease characterized by flares of pruritic lesions, rashes and lichenification. Skin barrier and immune barrier dysfunction, grouped with genetic predisposition all contribute to the development of AD. Available medications with the purpose of mitigating symptoms and exacerbations provide surface-level therapeuti…
Diabetes mellitus is a global health issue that is gaining traction in our healthcare system which leads to impaired wound healing and results in chronic ulcers, these increases the risk of amputation and disease mortality rate by 50-59% in 2020. Therefore, better inventions to treat diabetic ulcers are required. A bio-cellulose hydrogel is a form of wound dressing that can aid in protecting t…
Bacillus tropicus is a novel bacteria for hydrocarbon degradation. A previous study analyzed Bacillus tropicus as a part of a bacterial consortium, but did not divulge into the specific capabilities of Bacillus tropicus alone. Additionally, the study was performed on planktonic cells. On the other hand, immobilized cells are regarded to be more efficient for degradation due to the membrane …
Soil contains rich in microbial diversity that mainly drives various natural processes and functions. Attempts have been made to study the microbial diversity of soils in many environments to understand the underlying mechanisms and to hunt for novel antibiotic compounds. However, only a small portion (~1%) of microbial cells can be cultured in common laboratory co…
in recent years, natural food additives have gained an increased interest due to its importance towards healthy lifestyle. Pandanus conoideus Lamk. or red fruit oil is an endemic plant to Papua Islands that has high abundance of carotenoids, which may be considered to be a great source of natural colourant. Due to the lipophilicity nature of the oil, an encapsulation method has to be applie…
Red fruit (Pandanus conoideus Lam.) is a native fruit from Papua, Indonesia, usually processed into oil due to its high lipid content. Multiple studies have encapsulated red fruit oil and observed its stability, but the shelf-life estimation of freeze-dried is yet to be determined. Accelerated shelf-life testing (ASLT) is utilized in this study with the Arrhenius modelling to observe the deg…
Chocolate spread is a complex multiphase system of solid-oil suspensions that is made up of a dispersion phase comprising cocoa powder, sugar, fat, milk, and emulsifiers. The purpose of this research is to develop the chocolate spread with different types of vegetable oils such as lab-made VCO, commercial palm kernel oil (PKO), and commercial VCO. The objective was to evaluate the effect of di…
Red fruit (Pandanus conoideus Lam.) contains high amounts of carotenoid which contribute to its distinct red color that makes it a suitable source of natural colorant. Encapsulation through cocrystallization is conducted to increase applicability of red fruit oil. The research aims to assess the effect of different storage temperatures on its quality parameters, total carotenoid content, per…
Virgin coconut oil (VCO) is a functional food oil that became increasingly popular as a nutritional supplement and functional food. In the early days, VCO was taken directly like a medicine, but due to the oil's unpleasant raw flavor, many people disliked it. This problem might be handled by applying VCO to other products as other vegetable oil substitutes. The food product with the greatest po…
Chronic diabec wound is a common complicaon in diabetes mellitus which is caused by a prolonged wound-healing process from a persistent inflammaon phase. Thus, proper wound treatment is needed to promote wound healing and protect the wound from infecon. Biocellulose (BC) as wound dressing provides a moist environment to protect skin and pr…
This study was done because the author had the opportunity to do an internship as a quality control intern at PT Firmenich Aromatics Indonesia. PT Firmenich Aromatics Indonesia is primarily focused on becoming the center of the Firmenich flavors supply chain for Asia, and the author was assigned to analyze these flavor products during the internship. All sensory attributes of food are referr…
"he objective was to compare the FFA values of lab-made VCO to commercial PKO and commercial VCO, compare the quality of the lab-made VCO with commercial, and investigate the potential effect of substitution of PKO with VCO. Chocolate spreads that are commonly available in the market usually use palm oil as the liquid fraction. Therefore, for this semester, the focus of this research is on …
Red fruit (Pandanus conoideus Lam.) is a suitable source of natural colorant containing a high amount of carotenoid content that contributes to its distinct red color. The research aims to assess the effect of different storage temperatures on its quality parameters, total carotenoid content, peroxide value, and color, assess the degradation kinetics of RFO in terms of its quality parameters st…
Skin wound healing is a biological course of events where a series of molecular and cellular events works together to restore the damaged tissue in four phases. Several factors could interfere with the completion of those phases, causing delayed and abnormal wounds which may lead to ulcers. Commonly, the formation of ulcers is associated with type II diabetes mellitus (T2DM) disorder which …
Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a common chronic inflammatory skin disease affecting almost 2.4% of the population worldwide. Due to the complex interactions of genetic, environmental, and immunological variables, AD is still incurable as the knowledge of this complex disease is still limited. Moreover, current available treatments can only treat its symptoms and stop them from getting worse. The…
Mass Drug Administration is one of the strategy use by countries to intervene the progression of helminth infection. The goal of MDA program is to give preventive chemotherapy to a populations by using broad spectrum anti-helminthic drugs. The drugs were administered by the people once or twice a year depending on the prevalence of their region. The Indonesian government has applied this …
Diabetic foot ulcers are the most common complications in persons with poorly controlled diabetes (DM). This syndrome can be caused by inadequate glycemic control, underlying neuropathy, a slow and progressive circulation disorder (PVD), or terrible foot care. Around the world, 9.1 to 26.1 million suffer from diabetic foot ulcers. Usually, people at any age are commonly suffering from diabet…
Diabetes is a major epidemic in nearly all regions of the world. Roughly 15% of diabetic patients will develop chronic wounds and eventually diabetic foot ulcers in their lifetime. These chronic wounds exhibit delayed wound closure and may become fatal if left untreated. One of the promising treatments and management for diabetic foot ulcers is applying appropriate dressing materials. Hydro…
Health concerns about synthetic colorant in gummy has increased the demand for natural substitutes. The oil of Red fruit (Pandanus conoideus Lam.) is known to have a high carotenoid content (3,027-19,959 ppm) and a red color which is a potential source of natural colorant. Conversion to powder through co-crystallization can improve the stability of Red Fruit Oil (RFO). This study compared t…
Red fruit is an indigenous plant that grows mainly in Papua that is commonly used as a natural colorant but it has several limitations. Co-crystallization was chosen to be the suitable encapsulation method to improve the stability and solubility of RFO. Sodium caseinate (NaCas) were prepared as the emulsifier in the crystallization to improve the stability of RFO. The pure RFO, co-crystalli…
The susceptibility of meat to quality and safety issues has brought numerous attempts to incorporate antioxidants and antimicrobial agents into the packaging to improve the shelf stability of meat. The study aims to develop chitosan film incorporated with Piper Cubeba essential oil (PCO) into chitosan film to improve the shelf life of beef shank cuts. 2% (w/v) chitosan films with 0-3% PCO we…
Red fruit (Pandanus conoideus Lam.) is characterized by red coloration, due to its high amounts of carotenoid, an ideal source for natural food colorants. However, carotenoids are prone to degradation during processing. Co-crystallization is used to improve the applicability and stability of these pigments. Carotenoid content analysis was done to see the effect of processing on the recoverab…
PT. Cau Coklat International is a company engaged in the agricultural products industry (agro-industry) and agricultural tourism (agro-tourism) with the Cocoa fruit (Theobroma cacao L.) as the commodity produced with well-integrated land and industrial management systems. Cocoa is a native species that grows in tropical humid forest and is traditionally grouped into 3 (three) different main…
Indonesia is the leading producer of palm oil that fulfills more than half of the world's palm oil demand. The large scale operation in palm oil agroindustry is economically beneficial which improves life quality and income for many Indonesians, however it has also brought a massive amount of byproducts that if not treated properly would damage the environment. Empty fruit bunch and mesocar…
Red fruit oil is a native plant found in Papua Island with a high carotenoid concentration, thus it is considered a promising source of natural food colorant. However, as it is present in the form of oil, it is prone to oxidation and hard to dissolve in water. Hence, an encapsulation method such as co-crystallization is required. Sodium caseinate, WPI, and SPI were used in this study as a pr…
Atopic Dermatitis or AD has been introduced since the early 1800s as the most common type of eczema. The reason for the emergence of this disease is still unclear, but researchers believe that inflammation plays an important role in the development of the disease and its severity. Although many drugs are available to lessen the symptoms of the disease, they are known to exhibit serious side eff…
Enzymatic production using papain enzymes is one promising technique implemented to produce VCO with desirable yield, yet an examination on the effect of the implementation on oil quality is limited. VCO quality is determined by chemical properties and must comply with standards regulated by APCC. This study investigated the effect of papain-assisted production using different incubation temper…
Red fruit oil (Pandanus conoideus Lam.) is a great source of carotenoid pigment for its potential utilization as a coloring agent. In order to preserve carotenoids and improve its stability over storage, encapsulation using freeze drying was performed in this study by using two different carrier agents, maltodextrin (MD) and whey protein isolate (WPI), solely and in blends at different concentr…