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ITB students create passionfruit skin diabetes-friendly cookies
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In the beginning, Devi Nathania, Fanny and Sandra Novitasari were concerned with the fact that most people only consumed the seeds of passionfruit, while their skin could actually help prevent diabetes. (Shutterstock/File)
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hree students from the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) have used passionfruit skin to create diabetes-friendly cookies. Named Diakies, the cookies won them second place at Scientific Week of Pharmaceutical Students, which was held from Sept. 4 to 10 at the Indonesia Muslim University (UMI) in Makassar, South Sulawesi.
At the beginning, Devi Nathania, Fanny and Sandra Novitasari were concerned with the fact that most people only consumed passionfruit seeds, while their skin was actually beneficial to prevent diabetes. Said to be fully based on natural ingredients, Diakies is made from powdered passionfruit skin, flour and stevia.
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Diakies, which has two types of toppings; chocolate chips and oat-raisin, has many advantages. It not only uses a sugar substitute but also has an anti-diabetes effect that can lower blood sugar levels, especially because the passionfruit skin contains Piceatannol and pectin.
“Hopefully these cookies will be able to help diabetes patients, so they can have healthier snacks,” said Devi Nathania in an official statement from ITB. “Also, we hope that [we] can help in processing passionfruit waste in a better way and [the product] can be utilized in a new field for home industry.” (asw)
