Qualitative Screening of Food Safety Using Parameters Based on Natural Plant Materials

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  • Alinea Dwi Elisanti Politeknik Negeri Jember Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.59890/dd70y253

Keywords:

Food Safety, Turmeric, Dragon Fruit Skin, Borax, Formalin

Abstract

The community as consumers has a role in ensuring food safety. The use of kits has been widely used to identify food additives (BTP) in food ingredients in the community. Currently, a simple, cheap, and easy test tool is needed to screen food ingredients. The purpose of this study was to conduct qualitative screening of food safety using natural plant ingredients, namely turmeric extract and dragon fruit skin. This type of research is a laboratory survey using 30 food samples sold during the fasting month. The results showed that 13.3% of food types were suspected of containing borax and 68.75% were suspected of containing formalin. Food ingredients containing borax are raw wet noodles, skewered meatballs, salted fish and salted squid, while those containing formalin are raw wet noodles, cooked noodles, skewered meatballs, cilok, raw tofu, salted fish, bakpau, pukis, chicken nuggets, petulo, and salted squid. Food ingredients containing borax and formalin are raw wet noodles, skewered meatballs, salted fish and salted squid

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2025-07-30

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Qualitative Screening of Food Safety Using Parameters Based on Natural Plant Materials. (2025). Multitech Journal of Science and Technology (MJST), 2(6), 389-396. https://doi.org/10.59890/dd70y253