Ginger Leather Candy Formulation at CV Sari Sehat Bogor

Abstract

CV Sari Sehat is an SME that produces herbal products such as instant powdered drinks, simplicial, and powdered tea. CV Sari Sehat wants to increase the value of its red ginger commodities through innovation. Currently, the processed red ginger products offered by CV Sari Sehat are only instant drink powder and tea powder, which is why they are seeking to develop new processed red ginger products. Product development is to be carried out by making red ginger jelly candy in the form of thin layers, namely Ginger Leather Candy (GLC). The development process will follow an engineering design approach. This method’s phases include exploration, problem definition, ideation, prototype development, and validation. The best formulation for the GLC product contains ingredients such as water, red ginger extract, pectin, granulated sugar, brown sugar, corn sugar syrup, citric acid, and icing sugar as product coatings. Chemical testing shows that GLC has a moisture content of 15.2%, ash content of 1.5%, sucrose of 46.42%, and reducing sugar of 10.94%. The antioxidant and antimicrobial activity of this GLC product is categorized as weak, with an antioxidant activity value of 177.059 μg/ml and an inhibition zone of 2 mm. However, the organoleptic test results indicate that consumers like this GLC product, with an overall average level of consumer liking of 3.95/5.