Pelatihan Pembuatan Saus Tomat

Abstract

Sauce is a complementary food, this food is usually coupled with fried foods, soupy foods and can also be used as a seasoning. Sauce made from tomatoes (if tomato sauce) is blended until smooth and cooked while adding spices to make it taste savory. The sauce's delicacy depends on the freshness of the fruit used, the right spice composition and the correct manufacturing procedure. Sauce in the market often does not include the composition of ingredients and food additives (BTM) such as food preservatives used not to mention we do not know the freshness of fruit and BTM doses added and the manufacturing procedures that are not necessarily clean and do not attach permits granted from the government . Fruits that are not fresh (rotten), doses of food additives (preservatives) added can cause various diseases in the body. Through this community service activity, it is expected that students can make their own tomato sauce by using fresh tomatoes, spices with the right amount and not using preservatives that are harmful to health. By making your own tomato sauce, besides being guaranteed cleanliness and health for your body, you can also save on spending money and be able to become skills for students to become entrepreneurs by producing home-made tomato sauce. In this community service activity there were 2 sessions conducted, the first was counseling about the danger of preservatives in food. The second session, the practice of making tomato sauce using fresh tomatoes, the right dosage of seasoning without using preservatives

Community Empowerment through Agricultural Commodity Processing Training as an Effort to Improve Community Welfare in Kerta Barat Village, East Java

“…The benefits for the community following implementation of this service are a) the community becomes motivated to diversify into producing processed food products from agricultural products; b) the community becomes motivated to participate in socioeconomic activities towards prosperity, such as considering entrepreneurship (Tanjung & Anggraeni, 2019); c) expanding public knowledge in the benefits of added value in processed agricultural products that can have an impact on the productivity of economic activities in the community. This activity also changed the behaviour of farmers, namely farmers become aware of the effects and benefits of processing techniques on agricultural raw materials and expanded their knowledge on food additive chemicals used in the preservation process of food products.…”

“…One of the methods of processing tomato and red chili commodities is by means of preservation as a way to extend shelf life so that excess harvest can be converted into processed food products with higher economic value (Saputro & Susanto, 2015;Tanjung & Anggraeni, 2019). Processed tomato paste/tomato sauce and cayenne chili powder are examples of products produced through processing technology that is easy to utilize using inexpensive materials (Aprilyan, Lutfi, & Yulianingsih, 2015;Sjarif, Apriani, Community service, & Manado, 2016).…”