Improve the Potential of Bakas Village "Daun Pandan Harum", FTP Unud Develops Herbal Tea Products

The Faculty of Agricultural Technology, Udayana University (FTP Unud) develops herbal tea products by raising the potential of Bakas Village, Klungkung Regency. Bakas Village is one of 13 (thirteen) villages in Banjarangkan sub-district, Klungkung. Bakas Village has an area of ??approximately 382.225 hectares north of the city of Semarapura, the capital city of Klungkung Regency, with a distance of approximately 8 km. From this area, the land use for rice fields and dry fields reaches 95 Ha and 28,075 Ha, respectively, most of which are filled with fragrant pandan plants, so that one of the local potentials that can be utilized is fragrant pandan leaves.

 

Lecturer Team of FTP Unud consisting of Dr. Ir. Luh Putu Wrasiati, M.P., and Dr. Dewa Ayu Anom Yuarini, S.TP., M.Agb. from the Agroindustrial Technology Study Program with I Gede Arie Mahendra Putra, S.TP., M.TP. and Putu Julyantika Nica Dewi, S.TP., M.TP. from the Food Technology Study Program developed a herbal tea product based on fragrant pandan leaves to lift the potential that exists in Bakas Village, Klungkung Regency.

 

The product developed is a herbal tea product that can be derived from a variety of ingredients, both spices and flowers, to which each product can be added with fragrant pandan leaves to enhance the aroma and taste of the product. One of the ingredients that can be mixed in the development of herbal tea with pandan leaves is ingredients such as ginger, lemon grass, secang wood, telang flower, pearl flower and others that have undergone a drying process.

 

Herbal tea is the term for a mixture of flowers, leaves, seeds, roots, or dried fruit to make a drink which is also called herbal tea. Although it is called "tea", this concoction or drink does not contain the leaves of the tea plant. Herbal teas are usually brewed with hot water to get a fragrant drink. The benefits of herbal tea which are quite well known are increasing endurance, besides that it can also overcome inflammation, overcome insomnia, lose weight, prevent heart disease, overcome digestive problems and increase endurance. The benefits provided by herbal teas are because herbal teas consisting of spices and flowers such as ginger, lemongrass stalks, secang wood, telang flowers, pearl flowers and others contain bioactive components that can function as antioxidants.

 

The process of making herbal tea is quite easy, namely the materials to be used are selected of good quality, then reduced in size and dried. The drying process of the material can use sun drying or drying with an oven. Some products such as fragrant pandan leaves are given a blanching treatment before drying so that the color of the leaves and the aroma of the leaves are sharper. When all the ingredients have been reduced in size and have gone through the drying process, they are ready to be packaged in attractive packaging. The presentation process is also quite easy by brewing herbal tea in boiling water and the herbal tea products are ready to be served and consumed.

One of the representatives Mrs. Dr. Ir. Luh Putu Wrasiati, M.P. explained that the development of this product is used to lift the potential that exists in Bakas Village, Klungkung Regency, namely fragrant pandanus. According to her, the addition of dry fragrant pandan leaves to each mixture of herbal tea products produced can have a good effect on the resulting beverage, such as providing aroma and taste, providing a relaxing effect and improving the quality of the product. She also said that herbal tea with pandan leaves can be further developed into ready-drinks and if packaged with good packaging techniques it can potentially be used as a superior product to support tourism originating from Bakas Klungkung Village, considering the potential of pandan leaves found in Bakas Village is very high. abundant, she said.