Food Fiber Content of Orange Sweet Potato Snack Bars and Red Beans for Patients

with Diabetes Mellitus Type 2.

Abstract

Diabetes mellitus type 2 is a disorder characterized by abnormally metabolic system in

which its prevalence is escalating. Management of diabetes mellitus type 2 can be run
on by eating the proper snack. Consuming high dietary fiber snack is recommended to
help lower blood glucose. Orange Sweet Potato and red kidney bean are kind of local
food which candidates as the source of dietary fiber as potential food to be processed
into a snack bar for diabetes mellitus type 2. This study aimed to know the difference
between dietary fiber snack bars made from orange sweet potato and red kidney bean
at different formulations. The design of this research was quasi-experiment with a
completely randomized design (CRD) that used 3 formulations and 3 repetitions. The
proportion of orange sweet potato and red kidney beans were F1 (90:10), F2 (80:20)
and F3 (60:40). Analysis of dietary fiber content of snack bar used an enzymatic-
gravimetric method. The result of total dietary fiber content of F1, F2, and F3 were
10,16%; 11.34%; 12.09%. Based on one way ANOVA test established that there was
no significant difference in dietary fiber content between formulation 1, formulation 2
and formulation 3 (p> 0,05). The conclusion is the more addition of red kidney bean,
higher content of dietary fiber involve in snack bar.