A clinical study on fiber enriched milk tablet: article

Fiber enriched milk tablet is a supplement that produced to overcome the malnutrition problem that happen to the children. It is formulated from the fiber source such as vegetables and fruit juice that mixed together with either cow’s milk. The vegetables that used are spinach and carrot. The fruits that we used are mango, watermelon and also dragon fruit. The reason of why the vegetables and fruits are chosen is because they are they are rich in nutrition especially the vitamin that is vital to the health. The milk is mixed with the fruit and vegetables juice because milk is rich with nutrients such as calcium and protein that is essential for growing and building a strong bone. The addition of maltodextrin into the mixture as the carrier during spray dryer is vital because the powder will not stick to the wall of the spray dryer chamber and the wall of cyclone. The effect of addition of maltodextrin is studied along this project. Through some journal reading, it is said that the maltodextrin will produce a strong and high tensile strength tablet. The effect of different method of drying such as freeze drying and spray drying also studied in this research where the inlet temperature of spray dryer the mixture will be spray dried in three temperatures which are 100˚C,120 ˚C, and 140 ˚C while freeze dry the temperature was constant at 60 ˚C. Several tests were done towards the products which were the dissolution test, nutritional content test and heavy metal content test. For dissolution test, it is carried out in four different dissolution medium such as distilled water (at 27°C), simulated saliva, phosphate buffer pH 6.8 (mimic intestinal fluid (IF)) and also hydrochloric acid (HCl) buffer pH 1.2 (mimic gastric fluid (GF)) at 37.5°C. The dissolution rate is higher in gastric fluid which is not followed as the theory of the dissolution of weak acids material. The heavy metal test also conducted towards the product to detect any harmful potential of the product. The result of the heavy metal contained in the product is less than 0.07 mg/kg arsenic, less that 0.03 mg/kg of lead , less than 0.004 mg/kg cadmium, less than 0.01 mg/kg of mercury and less than 0.01 mg/kg of antimony. As conclusion, the fiber enriched milk tablet have own percent dissolve in every medium tested and for the heavy metal content, the value did not exceed the maximum permitted concentration of the heavy metal.