Lecturers and students of the Food Technology Study Program and Biosystems Engineering, Institut Teknologi Sumatera (ITERA) again held Community Service (PkM). This PkM aims to develop dried noodles based on fish in the Cikisa Gading Utara Fish Processing and Marketing Group. This activity was carried out in Gadingrejo Utara Village, Gadingrejo Subdistrict, Pringsewu Regency on Saturday, June 24, 2023. The KWT Group in the village attended as participants.
Isnaini Rahmadi, who is a lecturer at ITERA, explained the importance of developing healthy dried noodles. This is done because the high number of noodle enthusiasts, especially among children. The noodles produced use wader fish and kiter and are the result of research by Food Technology students at ITERA. The research produced dried noodles with high protein content, namely 13,55% and 13,80%.
“This product is the result of research by Food Technology students. The high and quality protein content of this dried noodle is expected to be able to contribute to preventing malnutrition in the community,” said Isnaini in his speech.
This activity involved the Fisheries Office of Pringsewu Regency. This is because Cikisa is the cooperating group of that office. Mukholik, S.Pi., who served as Head of Post-Harvest and Supervision at the Pringsewu Fisheries Office, hoped that this group could continue to develop its business after this activity. He also hoped that in the future the Cikisa Group could produce superior food products in Pringsewu.
This activity was funded through the ITERA 2023 Community Service Grant (PkM) held by the Institute of Research and Community Service (LPPM) ITERA (ISR/MNU).
