The influence of ethanol extracts concentration of mengkudu fruit (Morinda citrifolia) and storage time toward beef quality

Abstract

Rahman AS, Purwoko T, Nugraheni ER. 2011. The influence of ethanol extracts concentration of mengkudu fruit (Morinda citrifolia) and storage time toward beef quality. Biofarmasi 9: 26-32. The high protein content of beef makes it easy to get a contamination caused by an activity of bacteria. The use of formalin as a preservative substance especially for beef can make a damage to health, so it is required to find preservative substances as alternative to substitute formalin. Mengkudu (Morinda citrifolia L.) has antibacteria compounds to the decompose bacteria of beef, so mengkudu fruit can be one of natural preservative substance alternatives, especially for beef. The purposes of this research were to determine the influence of ethanol extracts concentration of mengkudu fruit and a storage-time effect toward bacteria amount, and to determine the concentration that had a same activity with formalin to combate the replication of bacteria. This research used two-way completely randomized design. The samples were fresh meat beef that be submerged in mengkudu extract with concentrations of 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, 100% and formalin 1% as a comparator. After that, the beef was storaged in a room temperature during 16 hours, and every 4 hours it was tested for water content, pH value, beef temperature and a total plate count (TPC) test with a dilution method, and then the number of bacteria colonies with the limit of the bacteria amount of the beef to consume might not be more than 1x104 CFU/gram. The data were analyzed by ANOVA. If there was a significance, it would be continued by a DMRT test with an error rate 5%. The research results showed that all extracts concentration of mengkudu fruit and storage-time gave a significant effect (p<0.05) toward bacteria amount. The concentration of 100% had the same activity with formalin to combate the replication of bacteria among 16 hours storage time.