Judul: Pengaruh Lama Waktu Penggorengan dan Presentase Coating Gula Terhadap Mutu Tekstur Coklat Tempe.
Abstrak: Tempeh chocolate is one of tempeh-based food product development. However, the product texture quality can easily changed when stored at room temperature. Combination of treatment by frying and sugar coating which are following kering tempe making process is expected to improve texture quality. This study is divided into two steps. The first step is preliminary study which consist of determining the magnitude of treatment that will be used. The second step is observation of tempeh chocolate texture quality which had been given both physical and organoleptic treatment and proximate analysis of selected sample. Selected sample is sample which can maintain texture quality of tempeh chocolate for the longest time and selected sample is sample with frying duration up to 10 minutes and 50% sugar coating. Based on statistical analysis using Duncan’s test, frying duration and sugar coating percentage as well as interaction between them give tangible effect to tempeh chocolate hardness at 5% significancy rate. Proximate analysis of selected sample shows that sample contains 1.47% moisture content, 0.96% ash content, 31.99% fat content, 17.34% protein content, and 48.26% carbohydrate content.
Keyword: frying duration, hardness, sugar coating percentage, tempeh chocolate, texture quality

Judul: Pengaruh Tingkat Sterilitas, Medium Dan Ketebalan Tempe Terhadap Sifat Fisik Dan Nilai Gizi Tempe Kaleng
Abstrak: Tempeh is a traditional Indonesian food product derived from fermented soybeans using Rhizopus oligosporus. Tempeh has many advantages, such as nutrients and organic compounds in which a fairly complete as well as health benefits and can be obtained with relatively lower prices than other soy products are known to the world community. Tempeh also contains isoflavones as antioxidants. Unfortunately, tempeh has a limiting factor of the quality and short shelf life. Damage that occurs in tempeh mainly is caused by continuous fermentation. Therefore, in this study, thermal process was conducted so that tempeh has longer shelf life. The aim of this research is to obtain the effect of Fo values (4, 8, and 12 minutes), mediums (water, 2% brine, and oil), and tempeh thicknesses (1, 3, and 5 cm) in sterilization of tempeh to its physical properties and nutritional values. The results show that canned tempeh has softer texture, no significant difference in slicing quality and colour, and lower pH value than raw tempeh. However, all variables had no significant effect to physical properties changing. Based on hedonic test, the most favourite sample is tempeh in oil with 3 cm thickness which canned at T=127oC and Fo=4 minutes. This product has 51.98% water content, 1.04% ash content, 34.97% protein, 60.55% fat, and 2.32% of carbohydrate. The total daidzein and total genistein in 100 g product are 2.40 mg and 2.95 mg.
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Judul: Reptarenavirus pada Ular Boidae dan Pythonidae pada Fasilitas Penangkaran di Pulau Jawa Bagian Barat
Abstrak: Inclusion body disease (IBD) pada ular boa dan piton merupakan penyakit virus fatal yang disebabkan oleh Reptilian arenavirus (Reptarenavirus). Penyakit ini telah menyebar hampir ke seluruh dunia, namun belum ada informasi mengenai IBD di Indonesia meskipun telah dilakukan importasi ular dari negaranegara yang telah melaporkan IBD di penangkaran dan fasilitas eksitu lainnya. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah mendeteksi Reptarenavirus pada populasi ular di beberapa fasilitas penangkaran di Indonesia serta optimisasi pengujian Reverse Transcription - Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) dengan menggunakan primer GP dan primer NP untuk mendeteksi virus tersebut. Sampel usap oral dan kloaka dari 50 ekor ular boa dan piton dikoleksi dan dilakukan pengujian RT-PCR menggunakan dua set primer yang menargetkan gen glikoprotein (primer GP) dan nukleoprotein (primer NP). Kedua primer yang digunakan menghasilkan produk dengan spesifitas tinggi, namun primer NP lebih sensitif daripada primer GP sehingga lebih tepat digunakan dalam uji skrining. Prevalensi infeksi Reptarenavirus pada ular sampel adalah sebesar 54% (27/50). Ular yang terdeteksi positif adalah mayoritas B. constrictor sehat (89%; 24/27), dua Morelia viridis sakit (7%; 2/27) dan satu Python regius sehat (4%; 1/27). Adanya infeksi subklinis Reptarenavirus dalam penelitian ini mengkonfirmasi peran ular boa sebagai karier potensial. Penelitian ini merupakan laporan pertama yang menunjukkan keberadaan Reptarenavirus pada ular boa dan piton pada penangkaran di Indonesia. Hal ini menyoroti pentingnya upaya preventif untuk melindungi populasi ular liar di alam.
Keyword: boa, Inclusion body disease, Reptarenavirus, Reverse Transcription– Polymerase Chain Reaction, piton, sekuensing DNA