Optimalisasi Jenis Olahan Kering dan Cara Pengolahan Akhir Ketela

Abstract

The research was aimed to determine the effect of the form of dry food products, and final processing of sweet potato
and their interaction, on the nutrition content, resistant starch of the products, and the increasing level of blood glucose
of mice after consuming the products. The method of the research was based on the completed random design with the
factorial experiment two factors were experimented, the first factor was the form of dry food products with four kinds of the
product from namely: crispy, chip, cracker and snack. The second factor was final processing with two kinds of methods
were experiment was done using so nice which divided into eight blocks of combination treatments of the experiments. The crispy form of dry sweet potato product and final processed by oven roasting was the best product which could suppress the increasing level of blood glucose of mice to 8 mg/L and has resistant starch of about 39.29%. This product also had the best nutrition content such as content of protein, lipid, total sugar and starch of about 3.42%, 1.79%, 7.98%, and 50.02%.