Transfer Teknologi Pengeringan Daun Pegagan untuk Masyarakat Desa Bedono, Kecamatan Jambu, Kabupaten Semarang

Abstract

The Raket Suket community group in Bedono Village, Jambu District, Semarang Regency, has collected data on grass plants that grow in the Bedono Village garden. The Raket Suket Group has limited knowledge about the nutritional and phytochemical content of grass plants, as well as processing grass plants into herbal drinks, so they need assistance from the community service team of the Faculty of Agricultural Technology, Soegijapranata Catolic University (FTP). The activity began with a survey of grass plants in Bedono Village. A literature study was conducted on 5 grass plants that grow a lot and are often consumed by the people of Bedono Village. Processing is carried out on the grass plant, namely pegagan (Centella asiatica), by drying to make a dry herbal drink of pegagan leaves. Testing the quality parameters of the dried pegagan herbal drink was carried out in the laboratory, namely the antioxidant content and total phenol. The results of the literature study and analysis in the laboratory (testing quality parameters) were informed to representatives of the Suket Racket Group in Bedono Village in Technology Transfer (online) for Drying of Pegagan Leaves. The Raket Suket Group in Bedono Village can then apply the technology of drying of pegagan leaves for the production of dry herbal drink which can then be marketed to the wider community.