Don't Throw Away Fruit Skins! Udayana Food Technology Student Conjures Fruit Peels into Healthy Modern Drinks Rich in Antioxidants

Independent Entrepreneurship is part of the MBKM program which aims to provide opportunities for students to learn and develop themselves as potential entrepreneurs through activities outside of class. This program also invites students to collaborate, take action, and serve the country in the economic development of the Indonesian people. One group of Udayana Independent Entrepreneurial participants who successfully passed the selection stage was the Telytea (Fruit Peel Jelly Tea) product group. The group consisted of a group of students from the Food Technology Study Program, Udayana University namely Made Justin Satria Wira Buana as the group leader and Yohana Carolina Sumampouw Tawas, Kadek Ratih Paramita Wulandari, Cintya Rodi Easter Silitonga, and Fiona Chandra as group members, who were directly guided by the Lecturer of The Food Technology Study Program, namely Anak Agung Istri Sri Wiadnyani, S.TP., M.Sc.

 

TELYTEA (Fruit Peel Jelly Tea) is a new breakthrough for drinking tea using fruit flesh and fruit peels as the basic ingredients for its manufacture. The idea for the product Telytea (Fruit Peel Jelly Tea) was sparked due to the low average consumption rate of fruit by Indonesian people and the ignorance of most Indonesian people about the benefits contained in fruit peel waste. Based on statistical data on the composition of food waste globally, fruit and vegetable waste ranks highest. This existence makes Telytea products an innovation or contemporary ways to increase the amount or number of fruit consumption as well as reduce food waste in Indonesia.

 

 

Apart from that, Made Justin Satria Wira Buana also explained that there are also benefits provided due to the vitamin content found in the flesh of the fruit and the use of fruit peels as the basic ingredient of this product will add to the advantages of being rich in antioxidants due to the presence of bioactive components contained in the skin. fruit used #SaveOurNatureWithTelytea, he said.