Professor Chair Holders of IPB: Designed low cholesterol , and Rich in Omega 3 and 6 Fatty Acids Eggs

Professor Chair Holders of IPB: Designed low cholesterol , and Rich in Omega 3 and 6 Fatty Acids Eggs

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The top two killers in Indonesia, which account for more than 21.1 percent and 12.9 percent of total 41,590 deaths, are stroke and coronary heart disease. In addition, the prevalence of vitamin A deficiency in Indonesia is high (severe subclinical) and occurs almost in all parts of Indonesia.

Two commodities: eggs and poultry meat have a very important role to help solve the problem. But chicken eggs, duck eggs and quail eggs are high in cholesterol, quail eggs, are higher in cholesterol than those two chicken eggs and duck eggs. Yet, a balance existed between omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids of quail eggs is best when compared to chicken eggs and duck eggs. It was stated by Professor Chair Holders of Faculty of Animal Husbandry of Bogor Agricultural University (FAPET IPB), Prof. Dr. Ir. Sumiati, M.Sc, in a pre-press conference of Scientific Oration at IPB Campus, Baranangsiang, Bogor, on 20 July 2017.

Food that is safe for human consumption in terms of health must contain omega 3 and omega 6 fatty acids with a ratio of one to four (1: 4) and one to ten (1:10). Therefore, in some of her research programs, Prof. Sumiati, created strategies for designing novel functional poultry meat and eggs (chicken, duck and quail).

This one-to-four (1: 4) balanced ratio is able to reduce deaths from cardiovascular disease by 70 percent. While the ratio of one to five (1: 5) is good for people with asthma.

"The research we've implemented in recent years is the omega-3 egg design, the omega-3 and omega-6 balanced egg design, the low cholesterol egg design, vitamin A enriched eggs and the antioxidant-rich egg design. For meat, we designed low-fat and cholesterol functional fats, which is rich in vitamin A and omega 3 fatty acids, "she said.

For her livestock feed engineering program Prof. Sumiati utilized lemuru fish processing waste, such as fish oil. It then had been mixed with palm oil, Indigofera zollingeriana, katuk leaf, black pepper, choline chloride, tofu waste, cassava leaf, Indonesian bay leaf and kayambang leaf. For examples,  the addition of 2% lemuru fish oil and 11% cassava flour in the poultry feed will  lower fat content of duck meat.

"Katuk leaf (Sauropus androgynous) powder has proven to increase vitamin A content in quail meat. In addition, the design of chicken meat rich in omega 3 can be imlemented with the use of fish oil on broiler chicken rations, "she explained. (Wied)