| dc.description.abstract | Banana is a potential agricultural
commodity cultivated widely in tropical and
subtropical area. It has a high nutritional value
such as carbohydrate, dietary fiber, antioxidant,
vitamins and mineral. However, it is a climateric
fruit that its quality will be gradually decline after
post harvest. This condition leads to a decrease of
its nutritional and economical value. Therefore, the
product diversification of banana is really needed
to increase these values. An innovative approach
has been taken to explore banana as a functional
food that can be expected to confer health benefits
in humans and raise the sale price of banana. A
synbiotic banana “Sale” was a semi-wet product of
banana considered as an prebiotic because of its
natural resistant-starch content, and the addition
of Lactobacillus acidophillus has made this product
considered as probiotic food. The purposes of this
product development are to improve their health
effects, extend the shelf life of banana products,
and increase its economic value. Therefore, this
product was also use natural lactic acid of
Lactobacillus plantarum kik as natural preservative
and its financial analysis was also carried out to
describe its ecomics potency. | en_US |
