World Journal of
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences

ABSTRACT

One type of fruit that useful for humans is a dragon fruit. Dragon fruit easily damaged if not stored properly and one alternative that can be done by processing it into various processed products such as dragon fruit syrup, dragon fruit jam and others. Dragon fruit is a kind of fruit that tastes sweet also slightly sour and the meat is quite chewy so it is suitable if made jam. Dragons fruit jams are often found in the form of jelly and sheet-shaped. This study aims to determine the effect of the ratio of sugar and CMC to the quality of sliced jam of dragon fruit. This research was conducted at the laboratory agricultural product technology Faculty of Agriculture Universitas Islam Sumatera Utara. The study used a complete randomized design factorial two replications with amount of sugar and the number of CMC (as treatments. The results showed that to produce good quality of sliced jam can be made with a ratio of 70% sugar and 2% CMC.