Snack from waste ingredients: Delichips Banana

Delichips Banana is a unique new local snack innovation product compared to existing chips in the market. This snack is made from waste ingredients such as the main ingredients, banana stem fiber, and prawn skins. The main objectives of this product are to diversify and enrich the usage of waste ingredients; banana stem fiber and prawn skins. Enhancing the nutrients and aesthetic quality of the snack also is the main objective. The production of the product started with preparing treated banana stems and prawn skins. Then banana stem was fried, tossed, and mix with flavored prawn skins powder sambal sira. This product is marketable, cost-effective, longer shelf-life, and is easy to market as it is packed in a zip-locked pouch. A pair comparison test was conducted (n = 60 untrained panels) using the most and least indicator with 2 different samples (Variation 1 & Variation 2) comprising six attributes such as appearance, color, texture, oil uptake, flavor, and overall acceptance. Results of paired comparison test indicate most of the panels preferred Variation 1 with 33 panels (chips with fried chicken flour and rice flour batter) compared to variation 2 with 27 panels (rice flour batter)