TINGKAT KESUKAAN KONSUMEN TERHADAP TEH GAHARU (AQUILARIA MALACCENSIS LAMK.) BERDASARKAN BENTUK DAN UKURAN SERTA KANDUNGAN ANTIOKSIDAN
ABSTRACT: Agarwood (Aquilaria
malaccensis Lamk.) are now popular to be exploited by farmers as a healthy
drink. This research was done to study the effect of the shape and size of the
tea from agarwood leaves on the consumers acceptance and antioxidant content.
Agarwood leaves tea made in three forms: whole leave, cutted and fine particle
size. Agarwood tea from these three size of shape and size then were evaluated
of their hedonic level at 0 day and after 2 months of storaged in room
temperatur by 50 panelists. The antioxidant activity was evaluated on methanol
extracts from the three kinds ofagarwood leaves tea by using DPPH method after
2 month of storage. The result of the research shows that the froporcle of
agarwood leave tea was more liked by panelists followed by the cutted leaves
tea and the whole leaves tea had the lowest value of the hedonic score. The
same result was found on the agarwood leaves tea that had been storage for 2
months, in the term of aroma, color for aswell as taste. The hedonic score of
arom, color and taste of agarwood leaves tea after 2 months of storage till
more than 3,00. It showed that the agarwood leaves tea still was accepted by
panelists. The result of antioxidant activity evaluation showed that the fine
particle size of agarwood leaves tea had the highest antioxidant activity. The
value of IC50 of the agarwood leaves tea from the whole, cutted an fine size
leaves were 85,89; 150,01; and 73,02 ppm respectively.
Penulis: Jhonny Simatupang,
Ridwanti Batubara, Elisa Julianti
Kode Jurnal: jpkehutanandd150227
