Thursday, May 19, 2011

Peanut without Fat

Student of Agriculture Technology of Brawijaya University succeed to develop nut without fat and cholesterol contain. This nut have been marketed in several city with name “Kacang Press Free Lipida.”

The treatment process of peanuts without the fat content by pressing peanuts using hydraulic press. How are done to eliminate the oil content of fat. "After in-press, peanuts were then soaked in green tea extract for half a day. Soaking resulted in catechin content in green tea extract beans soak into the ground," he explained.

After soaking, Putri said, peanuts and fried in peanut oil over the squeezed hydraulic press. "Because the oil content of the fat had been replaced with a compound of catechins from green tea extract, oil does not seep back into the beans.Processing did not damage the protein content inthe beans," he explained.

These peanut have been sold now in Surabaya, Gresik, Malang region and also circulated in Sidoarjo. The sale price is Rp 4,000 only for 80 gram packs .Asked whether there was one company that are interested, Prince admitted that he had no food company interested to produce it in large scale.

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